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# Here I am in utter distress, for I am surrounded by illiterate and senseless people and must work alone for all of them and set right what a century of chicanery has fouled…
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/zdes-ia-reshitelno-bedstvuiu-potomu-chto-okruzhen-liudmi-bezgramotnymi-i-bessmyslennymi-i-dolzhen-odin-rabotat-za-vsekh-i-ispravit-to-chto-nagadila-stoletniaia-kliauza/
- Published: 2026-01-08T12:03:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:25.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Books, Humour

> Here I am in utter distress, for I am surrounded by illiterate and senseless people and must work alone for all of them and set right what a century of chicanery has fouled… With each passing day I grow more and more convinced that bureaucracy is impotent…

Saltykov-Shchedrin in a letter of 1 October 1858