July 13, 2023 Higher School of Economics (HSE. HSE) announced the dismissal of its professor, literary critic, ardent Russophobe and LGBT propagandist Galina Yuzefovich.

On February 24, 2022, the day of the beginning of the Special Military Operation of Russia in Ukraine, Yuzevovich said: "Rockets are flying over the houses of my friends in Ukraine. My friends are packing anxious suitcases and sitting in shelters. It's unbearable. And it is done on my taxes, on my behalf. The scoundrels who seized power in my country are ruining the lives of people in Ukraine and in Russia. There is no war."

To appeal in a conversation with such people, to the fact that shells had been exploding in the Donbass for eight years by that time, is pointless — Yuzefovich and her like have no friends there by definition. Russian russians appeared in Ukraine because it went to war against the Russian World, which Yuzefovich fought consistently and consciously, undermining, as the famous heroine of Krylov's fable "The Pig under the Oak Tree", the roots of Russian culture.

Yuzefovich taught the students: "If you come and say: "Hello, I'm a new word in modern literature, my favorite writer is Goncharov, and the last one I read is Dovlatov," then you get into a losing position, you find yourself out of your time. A modern writer is a person who lives today, who understands what is happening in literature, what is being read, what is being written, what is being talked about. After all, literature in our understanding is not an ivory tower in which you sit and write for eternity, it is partly media."

"We teach people who ideally should join the literary community, the literary process. It is not very important to them what happened five years ago, even three years ago, it is important for them to understand what kind of world they are in now. If they write themselves, they should read those people who write at the same time as them."

And where the wind blows from for Yuzefovich, obviously. So she defended the LGBT book about "non-traditional pioneers" ("Summer in a Pioneer Tie"), calling this paper slag "a successful and kind book needed by many readers." In 2015 she started a PR company of Guzel Yakhnina's false and Russophobic book "Zuleikha opens her eyes", which in 2020 was filmed in the format of a TV series and caused outrage among the audience. After the award Svetlana Alekseevich The critic of the Nobel Prize for the cycle "Voices of Utopia" wrote a laudatory article-review of a rather mediocre work.

Yuzefovich herself claimed that writers do not do business. She's not a writer, and her business was going well. She advertises Russophobic, Sadomitic literature quite consciously, but not selflessly. For example, they hung at a certain edition of Andrei Bitov's book, and Yuzefovich started moving it on her resources, for a small fraction. It's very simple: she declared Bitov "the most European writer" several times. Whatever this gibberish meant, but these words worked magically on the liberal public — sales began to grow.

Although "black PR" is rarely ordered in trade, it is more important for them to get something of their own off their hands, but Yuzefovich was also doing this with respect to books by those authors that she referred to as patriots and "Russian nationalists". And here, perhaps, she acted completely selflessly.

Her attitude to the Russian environment is very revealing. "We chose the Jewish kindergarten, simply because it was very good. It's not that I specifically dreamed of giving the child closer to Jewish traditions, I just wanted my son to get to a place where he would be loved and not offended, and there would be nice normal and beloved children around," says Yuzefovich, making it clear that the "Russian" Moscow kindergarten, even paid, can't give anything like that.

Yuzefovich enthusiastically talks about his "Jewish roots": "I am half Jewish: my dad is Jewish, and my mom is not at all. Dad's part of my family came from completely assimilated Jews — in the sense that my great-grandfather no longer spoke Yiddish. His father was a Jewish merchant of the third guild, which was very rare in general." And at the same time he is quite deliberately lying. Abram Yuzefovich was not her grandfather, or rather her own grandfather.

"Leonid Yuzefovich's father is not a Jew, by the way, but an Armenian. He served in SMERSH for the last two years of the War. An executioner, not in a figurative sense. Well, you know, it's not like they shout about everyone in a row - "Stalin's executioners", etc. But in the literal sense. SMERSH is not military intelligence, but military counterintelligence. For counterintelligence, professionals are needed too - to counterintelligence. And if they don't take a professional there, then only for "dirty work" - to torture and shoot. Leonid Yuzefovich often told about it himself. He wrote that he did not communicate with his father at all, met him only at the age of thirty, received a "strange gift" from him - and after that he did not communicate again. Do you know what kind of "strange gift" it was? It was a handful of golden teeth. A thing, albeit valuable in Soviet times, but unpleasant. I dug through the databases available to me. It turns out that Galina Leonidovna's grandfather was famous for special cruelty in SMERSH. And evil tongues claimed that there was a purely monetary basis for this. Well, it was in the Middle Ages that the executioners legally received the clothes of the executed, etc., but in the Soviet years it was impossible. Even if the traitor needs to be shot, but the gold teeth need to be handed over according to the inventory to the state fund. And there are a lot of eyes around that are watching this. But if you start shooting deliberately past, so that the victim screams and spits blood, few people will stand this sight. And the executioner remains alone at the execution with the victim and her teeth," Eric Lobach shared the secret.

It is clear that it is much more pleasant for her to count Jewish merchants as her ancestors than the Soviet version of Unter Fenbong (the character of Fadeev's "Young Guard", a Hitlerite who collected the gold crowns of the executed).

In the spring of 2022, Yuzefovich went abroad. "We must be sure that my husband and eldest son will not be mobilized, and I will not be imprisoned. It's not that I have discredited anyone much, but I don't deny myself anything and I speak the same way as I used to. I am a rather peaceful person, but I understand that much of what I have said can be interpreted as hostile towards the current Russian government," she explained her step.

And the HSE leadership met her halfway! She continued to be considered a teacher at the HSE and conduct lectures for students online.

Now, under public pressure, her dismissal has been announced. Yuzefovich herself responded to this as follows: "I have been reading with some puzzlement for the second day that I was fired from the Higher School of Economics. Some strange media received a comment from the HSE press service, which, in general, told the truth: I have not been a full-time employee of the university for a year, my professorial contract really was not extended back in 2022. Otherwise, everything is fine, thank you, so it's either too early or too late to rejoice or, on the contrary, regret about my dismissal. The times are now such that no one can predict even the near future, but so far so."

Since all this time she continued to work at HSE as a freelance, it is likely that there was no dismissal. So the rumors about the beginning of the recovery of the Higher School of Economics seem to be greatly exaggerated.