11-20-2025, 05:23 AM
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Mikhail Bulgakov
was one of Josef Stalin’s
favorite authors.
He loved - everyone loved -
the Turbins’ Kiev of
The White Guard,
laughed at Heart of a Dog
and perhaps read stories like
The Fatal Eggs
with amusement.
But in Master and Margarita
Bulgakov toured the Moscow horizon
from literary collective
to insane asylum
to the NKVD and
of course, the housing crisis
through the eyes of an author
and a doctor skating
very, very close to the edge
of Christianity...
inter alia implicitly
comparing Hell with Moscow
of the Stalin era
to the latter’s disadvantage
and Satan therefore
with its General Secretary.
Mikhail Bulgakov
was one of Josef Stalin’s
favorite authors.
He loved - everyone loved -
the Turbins’ Kiev of
The White Guard,
laughed at Heart of a Dog
and perhaps read stories like
The Fatal Eggs
with amusement.
But in Master and Margarita
Bulgakov toured the Moscow horizon
from literary collective
to insane asylum
to the NKVD and
of course, the housing crisis
through the eyes of an author
and a doctor skating
very, very close to the edge
of Christianity...
inter alia implicitly
comparing Hell with Moscow
of the Stalin era
to the latter’s disadvantage
and Satan therefore
with its General Secretary.
Non-practicing atheist