> At the risk of upsetting my dear friend and comrade Mark Jones
Impossible!
> I submit
> the following:
>
And I agree with all of it, and just said so myself: the schemes to conquer Nature were a kind of 20th century folie de grandeur whose real basis was fear (mostly of Hitler).BTW, Leonid Leonov was no emigre: he was a widely published writer in the USSR in Stalin's time.
Was Stalin right about the 'zapovedniki'? It was just part of the whole 5 year plan-scam, wasn't it? Everyone and every THING was conscripted to the cause, but if he hadn't done that they would have lost the war.
Mark