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| Book Review: About modern Russia with bitterness and hope |
| 2021-04-18 |
| Direct translation of an article at regnum.ru Stanislav Anatolyevich Smagin is relatively young, but has already lived a meaningful life. The abundance of deeds and events, however, not only did not become an obstacle to his deep immersion in reflections on the history and modernity of our Fatherland, but added to them the most important quality: vitality. And along with vitality, as is always the case in Russia, pain. And this pain for our country and our people, passing from chapter to chapter of his new book [1], makes the author their own for all those who are just as sincerely sick of their fate. And we are ours for him. Like everyone who was born in the very late, dying USSR, Stanislav Smagin in his youth, as he himself told me, experienced a variety of ideological and unprincipled influences of the 1990s, but soon found a worldview basis that was organic for a Russian person. The collective Crimea and the collective Donbass made it even stronger. However, not only they, but also many other things that happened to our Motherland in recent decades. Including - and by contradiction. |
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