MORALITY IN THE USSR
The article is devoted to the analysis of the state of morality in the disappeared state - in the Soviet Union, which is often characterized as an "oasis of morality". Facts are presented that refute this image - a huge number of denunciations in Soviet times, abortions, "double standards", the number of Soviet citizens who collaborated with the Germans during the Great Patriotic war, and so on. The status of the Moral Code of the Builder of Communism is discussed. The author divides violations of morality in the Soviet years into two categories - into clearly immoral behavior, recognized as such by all or almost all, and “borderline” behavior, which is interpreted as immoral by some social strata, being considered as quity moral by others. The second category includes rudeness, the tendency to interfere in someone else's private life, violence in schools, which is the result of mixing representatives of different social strata there, etc. The main properties of the Soviet system of moral regulation of behavior that distinguish it from the current one are analyzed: weak social; differentiation within our society, inevitability of punishment for violation of moral norms, merging of morality and the law, severity of sanctions, and their indiscriminateness. The author concludes that there is no "oases of morality" in the history, in any society there are enough people ready for immoral acts, and the specific nature of its violations is determined by the type of social system.