The time of Stalin's death was the beginning of the end of all those things that led the greatest revolution in history after the Neolithic age to a path where prison, torture, exile, execution, and assassination were an integral part of it. The peop ...
The time of Stalin's death was the beginning of the end of all those things that led the greatest revolution in history after the Neolithic age to a path where prison, torture, exile, execution, and assassination were an integral part of it. The people in the Soviet Union had not yet had the chance to face the October Revolution itself with all its blessings and sufferings. For more than three decades, they were trapped in the power of a man who used to overthrow his executioners from Tehran to Mexico City to kill critics and opponents, and no one, ever, from Their hands was not safe. Therefore, the moment when the news of Stalin's death officially reached the ears of the Soviet people, there were such conflicting feelings in everyone as if everyone was asking themselves: "Is his death good or bad for us?" The book "Big Green Tent" is the story of "Lyudmila Ulitskaya" about the confrontation of Soviet citizens with the death of Comrade Stalin. A friend who was never a good and honest friend to any of his friends! This novel is the story of those who think that after Stalin maybe life will be better and it is possible to fight for freedom and talk with power, but we all know that all of them, those freedom-loving men and women, those intellectuals, those poets, writers, filmmakers, Musicians, painters, photographers, etc., under the sky of post-Stalin Russia, outside and inside the houses, were in a situation where the lie imposed itself on them and everything was such that all conversations were fearful, quiet and mixed with a lot of tremors. Three friends, three comrades, in the big green tent, grew up in the post-Stalin days and want to experience freedom, at a time when awakened consciences have been spared from power to teach them how to be heroes and remain heroes. Ulitskaya's great novel is their narrative, the artists of the Soviet Union who, after the interruption of dialogue, waited for a long time for the power to resume the dialogue with them, or at least those who wanted to survive, but clearly, very little power. He would engage in conversation and keep them confused and looking at them in silence and sometimes howling. As "Joseph Brodsky" said: "The system did not make mistakes from the top to the bottom, and therefore, as a system, it should be proud of itself." The heroes of the big green tent try to be heroes, but is it possible? If you can get lost in modern metropolises, in a system whose one mission is to prevent getting lost, your isolation and alienation create a situation where the voice in your head is no longer your own voice, it is the voice of power, a power that does not talk to you but in your mind. And your tongue is at home and does not go out.
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