Neither their own nor strangers
Political scientist Alexei Makarkin writes: “In Soviet times and in the first post -Soviet years, the dichotomy of his“ alien ”was directly related to the verbal level. That is, a person who has responded positively about Fadeev and Nikolai Ostrovsky, with a high degree of probability was a Soviet patriot, and the appeal to Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva or Brodsky was, on the contrary, is characteristic of democrats.