Vermin, cockroaches, degenerates: the words that Russians use to talk about Ukrainians and Western Europeans are reminiscent of the language of the “Third Reich”. The communists had already been fascinated by this – but for a long time no one wanted to see the similarity between the two great enemies.
—
Everything has to look perfect during the celebrations of the victory over Nazi Germany: drills for an air parade, May 2022.
–
In 1960, the writer Vasily Grossman sent the manuscript of his masterpiece «Life and Destiny» to the literary magazine «Znamia». Horrified by what he had written, the editor-in-chief handed it on to the KGB. The work was immediately confiscated. For the lesson of this great book – it is more than a thousand pages – was unbearable for the Soviet power. Grossman, who had been to Stalingrad himself, explained in it that Nazism and Communism were two warring brothers who fought each other so relentlessly precisely because they essentially agreed.
–
