Эдуард Тополь. Литературное покаяние. Красная площадь

In "Literary Repentance" Eduard Topol debunks one of the most famous literary myths - about how the writer F. Neznansky appeared.

The plot of the famous detective novel by E. Topol and F. Neznansky "Red Square ”is based on a real historical event - the suicide of one of Brezhnev’s court generals, which at one time made a sensation and gave rise to many rumors and legends.

The authors, who are by no means familiar with the intricacies of political consequences in the USSR, put forward the version that the general was killed by an interested nomenklatura group. From a historical and documentary point of view, this is fiction, but from an artistic point of view, this is a truth even more real than reality itself: intrigues, provocations, corruption, enmity between different departments of the state apparatus, courtship, competition in obsequiousness - all this stems from the very essence of communism, and fanfare, banners and newspaper editorials are just a facade covering the inside, like a brick wall on Red Square for decades was a facade covering the crimes of the Kremlin leaders.