Svetlana Alexievich. Enchanted by Death (№ 406531)

We think little about the nature of our ideals, and it is not completely clear to us. What's in the depths of the subconscious? Tyutchev said: "Russia cannot be understood with the mind..." it is beyond reason, consciousness... In other boundaries... Until now, no one can explain what happened to everyone in the seventeenth year? Revolution? An outbreak of mass banditry? Collective insanity? But at that time, many people (intellectuals!) experienced it as happiness ... Holiday! Communism lives in our subconscious... We are closer to romantic, heroic, and boring where reality, pragmatism. What does the favorite hero of Russian fairy tales Ivanushka-fool do? Crafts, builds? Nothing like that. He sits on the stove and waits for a miracle: a goldfish, or a beautiful princess to marry her... We are all waiting for a miracle or a just king...