Ivan Zhdanov: “Bastrykin needs to head the Writers’ Union”

“But I fully support Alexander Bastrykin’s entry into the Writers’ Union.
Moreover, I even think that he needs to head the Writers' Union. And the Investigative Committee will be renamed SKP - the Investigative Committee of Writers.

After all, it is under Bastrykin’s leadership that thousands of criminal cases are written every day, and often in the documents written by investigators, there are such turns of phrase that James Joyce would be jealous. Being convinced Kafkaites, it was Bastrykin’s subordinates who became the authors of such bestsellers as “The Bolotnaya Affair”, “The Kirovles Affair”, “The Yves Rocher Affair” and many others.”