“He does not deserve the light. He deserves peace.” Master i Margarita is one of my favourites.
More than that, Stalin actually sympathized him and sent him to elite sanatorium when Bulgakov became ill and lost his sight. He was treated by the best doctors of USSR, including Stalin’s personal doctor, professor Vinogradov.
Edit: words.
on a tangent, a friend and I were arguing last night about why Russia had and still has such talented writers, musicians, designers, basically the arts and sciences galore. My friend thought it is due to hardship and poverty. I argue it is investment from the aristocracy and state. thoughts?
Pfff. Bullshit. Which writr Stalin killed? Even the biggest liar Solzhknitsyn lived a long life.
What did he write
>one of the few
Technically, that is a lies: internal terror of USSR did not kill _most_ writers. Though, writers suffered as other people USSR did: some were arrested, some were killed, some were limited in rights, criticized, ignored, etc.
Stalin’s Favorite Writer, the story is that multiple times, the NKVD wanted to kill him, their hands were always stayed by Stalin him self. Same with Pasternak. Brutal as he is, he actually was genuinely interested in culture
Master and Margarita has a special place in my heart. The Jesus character there, not as son of a God but just a philosopher that preached kindness and compassion was so brilliantly written. The love story of the writer and Maragarita was touching as well. Like this entire thing is written in a completely satirical and over the top fantastical, but somehow he managed to capture the essence of many things in this framework.
>In a white cloak with blood-red lining, with the shuffling gait of a cavalryman, early in the morning of the fourteenth day of the spring month of Nisan, there came out to the covered colonnade between the two wings of the palace of Herod the Great the procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate.
One of my best books.
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Why did he survive? Was he just not good enough?
“He does not deserve the light. He deserves peace.” Master i Margarita is one of my favourites.
More than that, Stalin actually sympathized him and sent him to elite sanatorium when Bulgakov became ill and lost his sight. He was treated by the best doctors of USSR, including Stalin’s personal doctor, professor Vinogradov.
Edit: words.
on a tangent, a friend and I were arguing last night about why Russia had and still has such talented writers, musicians, designers, basically the arts and sciences galore. My friend thought it is due to hardship and poverty. I argue it is investment from the aristocracy and state. thoughts?
Pfff. Bullshit. Which writr Stalin killed? Even the biggest liar Solzhknitsyn lived a long life.
What did he write
>one of the few
Technically, that is a lies: internal terror of USSR did not kill _most_ writers. Though, writers suffered as other people USSR did: some were arrested, some were killed, some were limited in rights, criticized, ignored, etc.
Apparently one of the most famous late-Soviet movies is based on his screenplay: [Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vasilievich:_Back_to_the_Future)
Stalin’s Favorite Writer, the story is that multiple times, the NKVD wanted to kill him, their hands were always stayed by Stalin him self. Same with Pasternak. Brutal as he is, he actually was genuinely interested in culture
Master and Margarita has a special place in my heart. The Jesus character there, not as son of a God but just a philosopher that preached kindness and compassion was so brilliantly written. The love story of the writer and Maragarita was touching as well. Like this entire thing is written in a completely satirical and over the top fantastical, but somehow he managed to capture the essence of many things in this framework.
>In a white cloak with blood-red lining, with the shuffling gait of a cavalryman, early in the morning of the fourteenth day of the spring month of Nisan, there came out to the covered colonnade between the two wings of the palace of Herod the Great the procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate.
One of my best books.
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