Детдом

The author's memoirs (1926) about his life from the age of 4 in a special orphanage for children of enemies of the people.
forms the person she needs in a socialist society, and how and why I did not become such a necessary person. My life seems to me both very typical and not quite ordinary. Everything that goes to a simple Soviet person fell to me - perhaps, however, a little more than it should be for one: an orphanage, vocational schools, factories and the army, war and camps. But I still didn’t become a normal Soviet person, I understood the lies and meanness of this system early and tried to resist it as much as I could.