Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich. Raspberry Pelican (№ 453130)

A person avoids the opportunity to hear the truth about the past and present, although he suspects that it is - and not the same as he is told. But at the same time, he also assumes that if he finds out this truth, he will begin to live restlessly and uncomfortable, scared, or ashamed, or both. This knowledge will lead him to dangerous questions which he will ask himself or the authorities and compare what he has learned with what he has been told and withheld. And then a choice will arise before him: despite the knowledge that he has mastered, live as before, lie to himself, lose respect for himself, consider himself a trembling creature, an unscrupulous person, or decide on some statements or actions that are nothing in the country. will not change, but he and his family will bring a lot of trouble, and even misfortune.