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How do you take a story of Chikatillo and make it somehow the government's fault?
Why take the serial crimes happening in 1978-1990s and place these in 1960s?

A get all about the artistic licence. And I'm no fan of USSR as well. But I'm no fan of blatant misrepresentation of widely-known facts.

You don't really make it seem like people can be forced to make allegations against their neighbours. When there was a slew of denunciations during the Stalin's terror yet, oh wonder!, there were people w
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Yvonne
The setting is the big thing in this novel where it's 1950's Soviet Union near the end of Stalin's reign and Leo Demidov is a former war hero turned member of MGB, the Ministry of State Security (the Secret Police) and an idealistic true believer in the state. His belief system begins to unravel when a child turns up dead near a railroad crossing and Leo is sent to the family to squash any talk of murder. When Leo starts questioning things and when he runs afoul of a personal enemy he ends up be ...more
Joanne
Feb 24, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Steph
Feb 28, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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J.P.
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Megan the Vegan
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Amy
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