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About “Monumental Propaganda” (from the cover of the book)
“A cutting comic romp … a tale of naïve, willful delusion on a collision course with bureaucratic group-think: mindless belief on a collision course with unthinking pragmatism.” Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Vladimir Voinovich, author of the classic “The life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin”, [...]
This quote is from the book “Monumental Propaganda” by Vladimir Voinovich.
“Alexei Mikhailovich Makarov, also known as Admiral, used to say that if it was up to him to decide what monument to erect to our Soviet era, he would not have commemorated Stalin or Lenin or ayone else, but the Unknown Soviet Man squatting like [...]
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