The wizard of the city without emeralds
In Soviet times, oddly enough, there were many antitotalitarian fairy tales. This is “Jelsomino in the country of liars”, and “The kingdom of crooked mirrors”, and Schwartz's plays. Perhaps not all of them were conceived as specifically anti -Totalitarian works, but their total educational effect was just that. They remained in the memories. And, of course, we grew up jelsomins in the Soviet country of crooked mirrors. The conflict from the book of the writer A.