The story of Mikhail Sholokhov "The Fate of a Man" tells about the life of a soldier of the Great Patriotic War, Andrei Sokolov. The ensuing war took everything away from the man: family, home, faith in a brighter future. Strong-willed character and firmness of spirit did not allow Andrei to break. The meeting with the orphaned boy Vanyushka brought new meaning to Sokolov's life.

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main characters

Andrey Sokolov- the main character of the story. He worked as a driver in wartime until the Fritz took him prisoner, where he spent 2 years. In captivity was listed under the number 331.

Anatoly- the son of Andrei and Irina, who went to the front during the war. Becomes a battery commander. Anatoly died on Victory Day, he was killed by a German sniper.

Vanyushka- an orphan, adopted son of Andrei.

Other characters

Irina- Andrew's wife

Kryzhnev- traitor

Ivan Timofeevich- Andrew's neighbor

Nastenka and Olushka- Sokolov's daughters

On the Upper Don came the first spring after the war. The scorching sun touched the ice on the river and a flood began, turning the roads into a blurry slurry that was not passable.

The author of the story at this time of off-road had to get to the Bukanovskaya station, which was about 60 km away. He reached the crossing over the Elanka River and, together with the driver accompanying him, swam across in a boat full of holes from old age to the other side. The driver swam away again, and the narrator remained waiting for him. Since the driver promised to return only after 2 hours, the narrator decided to take a smoke break. He took out cigarettes that got wet during the crossing and laid them out to dry in the sun. The narrator sat down on the wattle fence and became thoughtful.

Soon, he was distracted from his thoughts by a man with a boy, who were moving towards the crossing. The man approached the narrator, greeted him and asked if it would be long to wait for the boat. We decided to smoke together. The narrator wanted to ask the interlocutor where he was heading with his little son in such impassability. But the man was ahead of him and started talking about the past war.
So the narrator got acquainted with a brief retelling of the life story of a man whose name was Andrey Sokolov.

Life before the war

Andrey had a hard time even before the war. As a young boy, he went to the Kuban to work for kulaks (wealthy peasants). It was a harsh period for the country: it was 1922, the time of famine. So Andrei's mother, father and sister died of starvation. He was left all alone. He returned to his homeland only a year later, sold his parents' house and married the orphan Irina. Andrei got a good wife, obedient and not grouchy. Irina loved and respected her husband.

Soon the young couple had children: first, the son Anatoly, and then the daughters Olyushka and Nastenka. The family settled down well: they lived in abundance, they rebuilt their house. If earlier Sokolov drank with friends after work, now he hurried home to his beloved wife and children. In the 29th, Andrei left the factory and began working as a driver. Another 10 years flew by for Andrei unnoticed.

The war came unexpectedly. Andrei Sokolov received a summons from the military registration and enlistment office, and he leaves for the front.

War time

Sokolov was escorted to the front with the whole family. A bad premonition tormented Irina: as if for the last time she was seeing her husband.

During the distribution, Andrei received a military truck and went to the front for his steering wheel. But he did not have to fight for a long time. During the German offensive, Sokolov was given the task of supplying ammunition to soldiers in a hot spot. But it was not possible to bring the shells to their own - the Nazis blew up the truck.

When Andrei, who had miraculously survived, woke up, he saw an overturned truck and detonated ammunition. And the battle was already going somewhere behind. Andrey then realized that he was right in the encirclement of the Germans. The Nazis immediately noticed the Russian soldier, but they did not kill him - labor was needed. So Sokolov ended up in captivity along with fellow soldiers.

The captives were herded into a local church to spend the night. Among those arrested was a military doctor who made his way in the dark and questioned each soldier about the presence of injuries. Sokolov was very worried about his arm, dislocated during the explosion, when he was thrown out of the truck. The doctor adjusted Andrey's limb, for which the soldier was very grateful to him.

The night was restless. Soon one of the prisoners began to ask the Germans to release him to relieve himself. But the senior escort forbade anyone to let out of the church. The prisoner could not stand it and wept: “I can’t,” he says, “desecrate the holy temple! I'm a believer, I'm a Christian!" . The Germans shot the annoying pilgrimage and several other prisoners.

After that, the arrested fell silent for a while. Then conversations began in a whisper: they began to ask each other who came from where and how they were captured.

Sokolov heard a quiet conversation next to him: one of the soldiers threatened the platoon leader that he would tell the Germans that he was not a simple private, but a communist. The man who threatened, as it turned out, was called Kryzhnev. The platoon commander begged Kryzhnev not to extradite him to the Germans, but he stood his ground, arguing that "his own shirt is closer to the body."

After hearing Andrey shook with rage. He decided to help the platoon leader and kill the vile party member. For the first time in his life, Sokolov killed a man, and it became so disgusting to him, as if he "strangled some creeping reptile."

camp work

In the morning, the Nazis began to find out which of the prisoners belonged to the Communists, commissars and Jews, in order to shoot them on the spot. But there were none, as well as traitors who could betray.

When the arrested were driven to the camp, Sokolov began to think how he could escape to his own. Once such a case presented itself to the prisoner, he managed to escape and break away from the camp for 40 km. Only in the footsteps of Andrei were dogs, and soon he was caught. The incited dogs tore all his clothes on him and bit him into blood. Sokolov was placed in a punishment cell for a month. After the punishment cell, 2 years of hard work, hunger, and bullying followed.

Sokolov got to work in a stone quarry, where the prisoners "manually hammered, cut, crushed German stone." More than half of the workers died from hard work. Andrei somehow could not stand it, and uttered reckless words in the direction of the cruel Germans: “They need four cubic meters of production, and one cubic meter through the eyes is enough for the grave of each of us.”

There was a traitor among his own, and reported this to the Fritz. The next day, Sokolov was asked to visit the German authorities. But before leading the soldier to be shot, the commandant of the block Muller offered him a drink and a snack for the victory of the Germans.

Almost looking into the eyes of death, the brave fighter refused such an offer. Muller only smiled and ordered Andrei to drink for his death. The prisoner had nothing to lose, and he drank to get rid of his torment. Despite the fact that the fighter was very hungry, he never touched the appetizer of the Nazis. The Germans poured a second glass to the arrested man and again offered him a bite to eat, to which Andrey replied to the German: “Sorry, Herr Commandant, I’m not used to having a bite even after the second glass.” The Nazis laughed, poured Sokolov a third glass and decided not to kill him, because he showed himself to be a real soldier loyal to his homeland. He was released to the camp, and for his courage they were given a loaf of bread and a piece of lard. The block divided the provisions equally.

The escape

Soon Andrei gets to work at the mines in the Ruhr region. It was 1944, Germany began to surrender its positions.

By chance, the Germans learn that Sokolov is a former driver, and he enters the service of the German office "Todte". There he becomes the personal driver of a fat Fritz, an army major. After some time, the German major was sent to the front line, and Andrei along with him.

Again, the prisoner began to visit thoughts of escaping to his own. Once Sokolov noticed a drunken non-commissioned officer, led him around the corner and took off all his uniforms. Andrei hid the uniform under the seat in the car, and also hid the weight and telephone wire. Everything was ready to carry out the plan.

One morning, Major Andrei orders to take him outside the city, where he supervised the construction. On the way, the German dozed off, and as soon as they left the city, Sokolov took out a weight and stunned the German. After that, the hero took out a hidden uniform, quickly changed clothes and drove at full speed towards the front.

This time, the brave soldier managed to get to his own with the German "present". We met him as a real hero and promised to present him for a state award.
They gave the fighter a month off: to get medical treatment, to rest, to see his relatives.

For starters, Sokolov was sent to the hospital, from where he immediately wrote a letter to his wife. 2 weeks have passed. An answer comes from the motherland, but not from Irina. The letter was written by their neighbor, Ivan Timofeevich. This message was not joyful: Andrei's wife and daughters died back in 1942. The Germans blew up the house where they lived. Only a deep hole remained from their hut. Only the eldest son, Anatoly, survived, who, after the death of his relatives, asked to go to the front.

Andrei arrived in Voronezh, looked at the place where his house used to stand, and now a pit filled with rusty water, and on the same day went back to the division.

Looking forward to meeting my son

For a long time Sokolov did not believe his misfortune, he grieved. Andrei lived only with the hope of seeing his son. Correspondence began between them from the front, and the father learns that Anatoly became the division commander and received many awards. Pride overwhelmed Andrei for his son, and in his thoughts he already began to draw how he and his son would live after the war, how he would become a grandfather and nurse his grandchildren, having met a calm old age.

At this time, the Russian troops were rapidly advancing and pushing the Nazis to the German border. Now it was not possible to correspond, and only towards the end of spring did my father receive news from Anatoly. The soldiers came close to the German border - on May 9, the end of the war came.

Excited, happy Andrei was looking forward to meeting his son. But his joy was short-lived: Sokolov was informed that a German sniper shot down the battery commander on May 9, 1945, on Victory Day. Anatoly's father saw him off on his last journey, burying his son on German soil.

post-war period

Soon Sokolov was demobilized, but he did not want to return to Voronezh because of difficult memories. Then he remembered a military friend from Uryupinsk, who invited him to his place. That's where the veteran went.

A friend lived with his wife on the outskirts of the city, they had no children. Andrey's friend hired him to work as a driver. After work, Sokolov often went into the tearoom to have a glass or two. Near the teahouse, Sokolov noticed a homeless boy of 5-6 years old. Andrei found out that the name of the homeless child was Vanyushka. The child was left without parents: the mother died during the bombing, and the father was killed at the front. Andrew decided to adopt a child.

Sokolov brought Vanya to the house where he lived with a married couple. The boy was washed, fed and clothed. The child of his father began to accompany him on every flight and would never agree to stay at home without him.

So the son and his father would have lived for a long time in Uryupinsk, if not for one incident. Once Andrei was driving a truck in bad weather, the car skidded, and he knocked down a cow. The animal remained unharmed, and Sokolov was deprived of his driver's license. Then the man signed off with another colleague from Kashara. He invited him to work with him and promised that he would help him get new rights. So they are now on their way with their son to the Kashar region. Andrei admitted to the narrator that he would not have survived long in Uryupinsk anyway: longing did not allow him to stay in one place.

Everything would be fine, but Andrei's heart began to play pranks, he was afraid he would not stand it, and his little son would be left alone. Every day, the man began to see his deceased relatives as if they were calling him to him: “I talk about everything with Irina and with the kids, but I just want to push the wire apart with my hands - they leave me, as if melting before my eyes ... And this is an amazing thing: during the day I always hold myself tight, you can’t squeeze a “ooh” or a sigh out of me, but at night I wake up, and the whole pillow is wet with tears ... "

A boat appeared. This was the end of the story of Andrei Sokolov. He said goodbye to the author, and they moved towards the boat. With sadness, the narrator looked after these two close, orphaned people. He wanted to believe in the best, in the best future fate of these strangers to him, who became close to him in a couple of hours.

Vanyushka turned and waved goodbye to the narrator.

Conclusion

In the work, Sholokhov raises the problem of humanity, loyalty and betrayal, courage and cowardice in war. The conditions in which Andrei Sokolov's life put him did not break him as a person. And the meeting with Vanya gave him hope and purpose in life.

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(509 words) Now you can often hear about how war awakens courage and patriotism in the human heart. However, all these enthusiastic speeches are always uttered by those people who know about the fighting by hearsay. If we ask a veteran, he will surely say that he would not want a repetition of those terrible events for anything in the world, and he would not seek any nobility on the battlefield. I fully agree with this and believe that war destroys not only cities, but also the human person.

M. Sholokhov also wrote about the depressing effect of war on a person in the story “The Fate of a Man”. While talking with a front-line soldier, the narrator notices his eyes and describes them: “The eyes, as if sprinkled with ashes, filled with such inescapable mortal longing that it is difficult to look into them.” Just like that, broken and crushed by longing, a soldier came out of the bloody mess of the world war. Andrey Sokolov lost his whole family there. For most of the war, he was a prisoner of the Nazis, and there he had to live from hand to mouth and work for three. But still there he was supported by the hope of an early victory and a meeting with his wife and children. But the shell killed his wife and daughters, and his son died on the last day of the struggle, while in Berlin. Returning home from captivity, he found that he had nowhere to go: no home, no close people. On the way, he saw a boy and introduced himself as his father, because he felt sorry for the homeless child. So they went together to look for shelter. But Andrei could not forget his relatives and the pain of their loss. He asked his random listener a rhetorical question that had already come to his mind more than once: “Why did you, life, cripple me like that? Why did you mess it up like that?" After the war, Sokolov did not enjoy victory, but suffered from longing and terrible memories that would never be erased from his memory. Struggle, captivity, death and blood brought him so much disappointment that even a peaceful life no longer pleased him. From this we can conclude that war oppresses a person and makes him suffer even after fighting.

M. Sholokhov cited a no less significant example in the epic novel Quiet Flows the Don. Grigory Melekhov was a brave soldier and rose to a high rank. He began his journey with the First World War and ended up in a gang of runaway Cossacks hiding from Soviet power. All this time, the hero was tormented by the need to kill people and almost lost his mind, attacking the sailors and chopping them to pieces with his saber. Remorse of conscience became a common thing in his life. But Gregory could not find truth and justice in any of the warring parties, so there was nothing to justify himself. He did not believe in the monarchy, nor in Bolshevism, nor in the separation of the Cossacks from Russia. As a result, the endless struggle brought him, broken and aged ahead of time, to complete surrender. The novel ends with the fact that Melekhov came to surrender to the Soviet authorities, no matter what follows. The life-loving Gregory was brought to the last degree of despair by the war.

Thus, war always destroys a person and brings a person to complete disappointment in life. After numerous injuries, losses and hardships, the fighter ceases to fight with melancholy and despondency and continues to live by inertia, no longer hoping for anything. This condition affects both winners and losers.

Each of us in our lives sooner or later faces a choice: whether it will be in our favor or in favor of someone else depends only on us. Sometimes it can be difficult for a person to make a choice due to many circumstances: this is either a position in society, or the adverse consequences of making a particular decision, or personal beliefs. A person who faces such a problem faces a moral choice. Most often, those people who are at war are faced with a moral choice: firstly, one must be aware that they can be wounded or killed in a war, and secondly, it is important to understand and come to terms with the fact that it is necessary to destroy the enemies of the motherland for the further well-being of their country , and, finally, thirdly, in a war one can succumb to temptation and go over to the side of a stronger enemy, or, for fear of death, flee from the front.
The most common problem of moral choice in the story of Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov "The Fate of a Man". The writer himself was a participant in the Second World War, and therefore had a complete understanding of the situation of soldiers in the war and in his works reflected the views of people on military operations with all objectivity and detail.
The protagonist of the story "The Fate of a Man", the driver, Andrei Sokolov, goes to fight for his country. He consciously takes this step, knowing that every soldier can contribute to the defense of his fatherland. Andrei leaves his wife and children in order to protect his native lands from the fascist invaders...
In another battle, Sokolov was wounded by a shell fragment, he fell into unconsciousness and woke up in captivity of the enemy. It was hard for Andrei to put up with the fact that now he must work tirelessly in enemy territory, and the soldier makes an attempt to escape, which, alas, was unsuccessful.
We must agree that the only way out of captivity is flight, but it also carries a number of consequences: in the event of a successful attempt to escape, the soldier is threatened with distrust among “his own”, because it is in captivity that there are often cases of going over to the side of the enemy, if the escape failed, this is followed by tougher supervision of prisoners, physical punishment, or even deprivation of life. However, Andrei Sokolov decides to run away despite the threat to his life.
During his time in captivity, Sokolov had to go through a rather difficult test: one night he overheard one of the prisoners of war reporting to the Germans about what was happening among the prisoners. Andrei decides to kill the traitor. The liquidation of the informer was not easy for the soldier, because he had to send one of his “friends” to the next world. In this episode, there is also the problem of moral choice, the outcome of which was the decision to take the life of a traitor. You need to have great courage and great willpower in order not to give up before the onslaught of war. Each of us should think about how he would act in this or that situation?
For two whole years, Sokolov was in Nazi captivity. During this time, he was on the verge of death: once Andrei had the imprudence to speak sharply about the Germans, and someone denounced him. The prisoner was summoned to the office of Muller, one of the highest-ranking persons in the department. The German invited Sokolov to drink to the victory of Germany before being shot. And what did this captive, tortured, hungry and chilled soldier do? He resolutely refused to drink to the victory of the Germans, and then Muller praised Andrei, marveling at the strength of the Russian spirit. The officer offered to drink to the health of Sokolov himself, to which the soldier silently drained his glass. Müller turned out to be one of those Germans in whom there were still a few human qualities left, and he, having given Andrei bread and lard, sent him back.
Sokolov was on the verge of life and death, because it was on officer Muller that his fate depended, Andrei could drink to the victory of the Germans, because no one but him, Muller and another manager would have known about it. This act also traces the moral choice between the desire to live and devotion to one's homeland. The prisoner does not lose heart and remains faithful to his fatherland to the last. After this incident, the German authorities began to respect him, and the workload for the workers was reduced. So it took about two years. Andrei was instructed to carry a major of the German army in a car, and on his next trip, the prisoner decided to disarm the major and go to his own ...
And so the most terrible time of the war passed for the driver Andrei Sokolov. By the end of the Second World War, he had not a single relative left, and his son was killed before his eyes on the last day of the war by a German sniper. Somehow, in the post-war period, a former soldier saw a boy who again awakened paternal feelings in him. The child turned out to be an orphan, his father went to the front, but never returned. Andrei understood that he and Vanya needed each other. Sokolov decides to lie for the good, and calls himself the father of little Vanya, thereby making himself and him happy for many years.
Andrei Sokolov is the most ordinary Russian soldier, his heroism lies in the fact that he is devoted to his country and people, merciful to helpless people and merciless to traitors. At all times, the opponents of Russia spoke and admired the moral loftiness and spiritual strength of the Russian people.

The name of M. A. Sholokhov is known all over the world. He wrote about the tragic fates of people who fell into the maelstrom of the 20th century, fraught with tragedy: the writer focuses on the image of the difficult and terrible events of the revolution, civil war, and collectivization. Sholokhov did not ignore the period of the Great Patriotic War, when humanity was once again placed in the face of a gigantic catastrophe. The writer is again interested in the fate of a man destitute of terrible historical cataclysms.

Action in Sholokhov's story "Destiny of Man" (1956) begins in March 1946, the first post-war spring. The protagonist of the story, Andrei Sokolov, is no different from the generation of people who won the war and went through all the trials. He has big dark hands of a worker. He is poorly dressed, he has a skinny duffel bag. However, behind the external inconspicuousness lies a great tragedy: “Have you ever seen eyes, as if sprinkled with ashes, filled with such an inescapable mortal longing that it is difficult to look into them?”

The fate of Andrei Sokolov is the glorious and heroic fate of a generation of Soviet people who went through the torments and horrors of war and retained their humanity and nobility. The pre-war life of Andrei Sokolov developed happily: he loved his wife, children, and this love awakened the best feelings in him. But the war came and took away this happiness. Andrei Sokolov went to the front. Wounds, captivity, the murder of a traitor, an unsuccessful escape from captivity, bullying by the Nazis - these are the main milestones of the front-line biography of a person in the war. Each time, going through the trials of fate, Andrei Sokolov remained a real person, a man with a capital letter.

The scene of the encounter with Müller is the climax of this story. This is a duel of enemies, a kind of psychological duel, requiring from the hero an incredible effort of will and all physical and mental strength. On the one hand - an armed, well-fed, self-satisfied and domineering fascist, on the other - an unarmed, disenfranchised, barely able to stand on his feet, even deprived of his name, prisoner of war No. 331. Hungry and exhausted, he refuses to drink for the victory of German weapons, and when he nevertheless agrees to drink “for my death and deliverance from torment”, then does not touch the bread: “I wanted to show them, damned, that although I’m dying of hunger, I’m not going to choke on their sop that I have my own, Russian dignity and pride and that they didn’t turn me into a beast, no matter how hard they tried.” Even Müller could not help but admire the courage and stamina of the Russian soldier. The lines about how prisoners dying of hunger shared the bread and bacon brought by Andrey are touching to the depths of the soul.

The news of the death of the family, complete loneliness - the last, most terrible test of Andrei Sokolov. This was supposed to break a person, deprive him of the meaning of life. After all, his heart turned to stone with grief.

Why did Andrei adopt Vanyushka? He was deeply wounded by the tragic fate of the child. His heart has not stopped loving, but his soul continues to feel human suffering and pain. Having adopted an orphan, Andrei Sokolov once again accomplishes a feat. He consciously takes responsibility for the upbringing of the child, even without having a permanent home.

This is the inconspicuous heroism that Andrey Sokolov shows daily, hourly, overcoming his tragedy and the tragedy of a boy.

“Two orphaned people, two grains of sand, thrown into foreign lands by a military hurricane of unprecedented strength ... is something waiting for them ahead?” - the author asks such a question. And he himself answers him: “I would like to think that this Russian man, a man of unbending will, will survive and grow up near his father’s shoulder, one who, having matured, will be able to endure everything, overcome everything on his way, if his Motherland calls him to this” .

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The meaning of the title of the story by M.A. Bulgakov "Heart of a Dog".

Bulgakov's story "Heart of a Dog" caused a hail of attacks from critics. The sharp disapproval of the work on the part of the authorities and writers even led to the termination of the contract for staging the story and its publication. The manuscript, along with Bulgakov's diaries, was confiscated. And only relatively recently this work was published and became available to a wide range of readers.

The unusual construction of the work - from the general to the particular - conveys the idea of ​​the work in an unusually vivid way. In the center of it is the incredible case of the transformation of a dog into a man. The fantastic plot is based on the image of the experiment of the brilliant medical scientist Preobrazhensky. Having transplanted the spermatic glands and the pituitary gland of the brain of the thief and drunkard Klim Chugunkin into a dog, Preobrazhensky, to everyone's amazement, gets a man out of a dog.

Homeless Sharik turns into Polygraph Poligrafovich Sharikov. However, he retains the dog habits and bad habits of Klim Chugunkin. The professor, along with Dr. Bormental, is trying to educate him, but all efforts are in vain. Therefore, the professor again returns the dog to its original state. The fantastic case ends idyllically: Preobrazhensky goes about his direct business, and the subdued dog lies on the carpet and indulges in sweet reflections.

Bulgakov expands Sharikov's biography to the level of social generalization. The writer gives a picture of modern reality, revealing its imperfect structure. The narrative in Heart of a Dog is built in close connection with the reality of the 1920s and social issues. Fiction in the work does not play the main role, but an auxiliary one.

In the story, Sharikov again turned into a dog, but in life he went a long and, as it seemed to him, and others were inspired, a glorious path: and in the 30s - 50s he poisoned people, as he once did stray cats and dogs. Throughout his life, the hero carried dog anger and suspicion, replacing them with dog loyalty that has become unnecessary. Having entered intelligent life, Sharikov remained at the level of instincts and was ready to change the whole country, the whole world, the whole universe so that it would be easier to satisfy these bestial instincts.

The hero is proud of his low origin, proud of his low education. In general, he is proud of everything low, because only this raises him high above those who are high in spirit, mind. People like Preobrazhensky must be trampled into the mud so that Sharikov can rise above them.

This is not only the history of Sharikov's transformations, but, above all, the history of a society that develops according to absurd, irrational laws. If the fantastic plan of the story is completed in terms of plot, then the moral and philosophical one remains open: the Sharkovs continue to multiply, multiply and assert themselves in life, which means that the “monstrous history” of society continues. Unfortunately, Bulgakov's tragic predictions came true, which was confirmed in the 30-50s, during the formation of Stalinism, and later.

The meaning of the title of the work can be interpreted in two ways. The first option lies on the surface - the story could be so named in honor of the experiment itself, carried out by Professor Preobrazhensky: he transplanted a human heart into the body of a dog.

Also, the meaning of the name may lie in the people themselves, such as Shvonder. Nobody transplanted dog hearts to them, they have them since birth. Shvonder is a person without his spiritual world, a loafer, a boor. We can say that it was created artificially. Shvonder has no opinion of his own. All views were forced upon him. Shvonder is a pupil of the proletariat - a group of people, according to Bulgakov, who sing about a bright future, but do nothing all day long.

It is these people who know no pity, no sorrow, no sympathy. They are uncivilized and stupid. They have canine hearts from birth, although not all dogs have the same hearts.

Outwardly, the balls are no different from people, but they are always among us. Their inhuman nature is just waiting to be revealed. And then the judge, in the interests of his career and the fulfillment of the plan for solving crimes, condemns the innocent, the doctor turns away from the patient, the mother abandons her child, various officials, for whom bribes have already become the order of things, drop the mask and show their true essence. Everything that is most lofty and holy turns into its opposite, because in these people the non-human has awakened. Coming to power, they try to dehumanize everyone around, because nonhumans are easier to control, they have all human feelings replaced by the instinct of self-preservation.

In our country, after the revolution, all the conditions were created for the appearance of a huge number of balls with dog hearts. The totalitarian system is very conducive to this. Probably due to the fact that these monsters have penetrated into all areas of life, Russia is still going through hard times.