1905. Arthur Kestler was born

110 years ago, on September 5, 1905, the English writer, publicist and thinker of Jewish -Hungarian descent Arthur Kestler, the author of one of the first novels about the Stalinist terror in the USSR, was born, “blinding darkness”, published in 1941, was born.

Kestler was a member of the German Communist Party, lived in the USSR for several years, but left the Communist Party after Moscow processes in 1938. He fought for the republic in Spain, was captured by the Francists and spent several months in the cell of suicide bombers. The impressions of the expectation of death were also reflected in "blinding darkness."