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  • If only Lev’s writing style and this topic fit you. I was surprised to discover in my school years that many had read it or at least claimed it, while I couldn’t start to care two books in before dropping it altogether the first time, while I was the only one who could finish Quite Don, another long masterpiece from another author, that describes how pre- and revolutionary times of total chaos affected the lives of ordinary people, they both studied in the last years of HS. I feel like it’s both me being pissed off at (less) pretentiousness and (more of) overblown reputation of the first opus and also the more grounded, simple theming of the second one that I can relate to as a poor left-leaning person. I don’t want to underappreciate it’s language and symbolism, their long-going tree metaphor is a noticaebale highlight of all russian lit, and one character being concussed under the beatiful skies of Austerlitz (first book) is a banger of a quality rarely seen before, but for a majorly lefty platform like Lemmy, I’d recomend Scholokhov’s work as a viable alternative if one would get bored with Leo’s writing like me. That story, surpisingly approved by Stalin, may give some insights into how average person could feel and act trying to survive in the polarized society of an ongoing civil war. And that’s frustratingly actual in these tiring times.


  • Actual source on their social network: https://m.vk.com/wall-192159337_1072

    Small town, local mayor and representatives from the ruling party’s office. In the announcement they don’t append any meaning to it and don’t even write what they gifted in the OP. It’s obviously not getting coverage from government-controlled media and mostly discussed on the internet and posted in banned ones.

    Two takes that are completely possible and can even be true at the same time:

    1. It’s a fuck up of people who couldn’t connect the dots beforehand, like office clerks looking for cheaper or more useful kitchen tech (because women), probably without the whole context or a will to give a fuck. It had some probability with that amount of cases and therefore it finally occured.

    2. It’s an example of an extremely cynical humor that is close to cancerous soviet\russian prison and law enforcement culture, and that’s a usual occurence in the top admin, so it can trickle down to local offices too. What went over the head of the journos, is that there’s a derogatory eqivalent to the meatgrinder that’s popular with most war-themed TG channels - to call the battlefront a ‘vagina-cutter’, and it makes it look way more intentional as a gift to women on women’s day.

    I suspect a combination of two. The first one is the simpliest, most probable reason why it started. But I can’t tell if someone signing it into work didn’t got a whole dose of the second one as well. In the fight of ignorance and malice, I bet on ignorance, but I’m pretty unconfortable with how I often pick between these two nowadays.