Vasil Bykov

The dissent of Vasil Bykov, who struck the readers of all generations, was hidden from the authorities in his main writing theme - trench truth. Being the main figure of Soviet existentialism, Bykov managed to expand the battles, it would seem, impossible for moral charges: his partisans were bred by almost the main evil of the Patriotic War. No wonder some Bykov novels completely saw the light only in Tamizdat.

And in modern times, another paradox opened: the more frequent and wider the bulls diverged in the Russian book market, the more difficult it became for him to be printed under Lukashenko. And although in recent years the writer has been the leader of the Belarusian national movement, the country that he fought against for four years - Germany.

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