DOMUS PATRIS
Naum Korzhavin
Temptations of a Bloody Era [2:31]
Korzhavin, Naum – Poet and writer
Born in 1925, he entered the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute when 20. In 1947, after a denunciation, he was arrested and accused of anti-Soviet propaganda. He was banished, and until 1951 he was in exile in Siberia, and later in Karaganda, which in the 1940s and ’50s had a population made up primarily of exiles.
In 1954, he was permitted to return to Moscow after an amnesty. In 1956, he was rehabilitated and allowed to continue his studies at the Literary Institute.
Naum Korzhavin's interview
You see, while serving time in jail I had a real faith in communism – in the true meaning of the sense of the word - that was until Stalin violated it, such as it was.
And then we went through a ‘friendship and humanity’ period, which for me, lasted until 1958.
I have now finished my memoirs entitled: ‘Temptations of a Bloody Era’, and it is now 58 years since I renounced communism. And when that bloody era and its temptations came to an end, I ...
Hypocrisy and contradictions
“The hypocrisy started right away. But I was very irritated by this plaited line. It wasn’t just the fact that it was untrue, because I couldn’t understand that anyway, being so young at the time. It was the self flattering rhetoric and the hypocrisy that it seeped in to people.”
(from Naum Korzhavin's interview)
The Communist Party (CPSU) was the sole legal political organization of the Soviet Union, its chiefs were in charge of the government...
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Faith in the Camp
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Naum Korzhavin
Temptations of a Bloody Era [2:31]
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Alksnis Yanovich
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