Viktor Petrovich Astafyev, in conversation with Georgy Stepanovich Zhzhenov about the war, voices an interesting thought about a people that calls itself great, yet for some reason lets itself be led on a leash like a calf, chooses a criminal government f

Viktor Petrovich Astafyev, in conversation with Georgy Stepanovich Zhzhenov about the war, voices an interesting thought about a people that calls itself great, yet for some reason lets itself be led on a leash like a calf, chooses a criminal government for itself and condemns itself to a beggarly existence. He observes that the Germans, who were already educated and enlightened at a time when peasants here were still being flogged in the public square, turned into brutes within twelve years. Astafyev also recalls how, after the war, veterans compared Hitler and Stalin: "ours is the worse beast". The video is short, watch it for yourselves: our well-known front-line writers, rare people, unique footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ICjUDgT4I