In 1961, the KGB confiscated the manuscript of Vasily Grossman’s
Life and Fate. The novel was, according to Grossman and other Russian commentators, “arrested.” Even in the midst of the political thaw under Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, such a portrait of life under totalitarianism wouldn’t be allowed into print, even with Joseph Stalin dead for eight years.
In their search for a usable past, something not to be rejected in disgust, not to shudder over, but to cherish and be inspired by, they were awed by the brave and nearly lost attempts of their fathers and mothers to imagine a just and moral political order.
Путин на американских горках Белый дом урезонивает Кремль
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Западные журналисты ждут новое военное вторжение Путина и 5 военных конфликтов – СМИ
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