A couple of phrases: historian Piotrovsky vs literary critic Glebov

Times are to blame

“In fact, not this person [Stalin] killed ... In fact, this was a situation when people with the help of political techniques solved their affairs ... Therefore, it is also necessary to understand very carefully and understand that everything is a big story that will not reason, but compared to which we are bugs. And therefore, one must understand that there is moral positions, but there are others ... Who is to blame for this? Not a single person is to blame for this ... I think that such a scenario wrote to us a story. ”

Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage

- Yes, you will not recognize me, or what? Levk! Shulepnikov spat out a cigarette butt and, without looking at Glebov, stood up and went a wagger into the depths of the courtyard, where the disagreement of the container began. Glebov, unpleasantly amazed, wandered out into the street. It was struck by the appearance of Levka Shulepa and not the miserable of his current state, but that Levka "did not want to recognize." To someone, and Levka had nothing to take offense at Glebov. Not Glebov is to blame and not people, but times. Well, even if he doesn’t greet it with times.

Yuri Trifonov. " House on the Embankment "