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“Communism had a crazy plan,” the author explains, “to transform the ‘old’ man, the outdated Adam. And it succeeded… Perhaps this is the only thing it ever succeeded at. Over the course of a little more than seventy years, a special type of human being—homo soveticus—was bred in the laboratory of Marxism-Leninism. Some consider him a tragic figure; others call him the ‘Soviet man.’ “I think I know this man; he is very familiar to me. I lived alongside him, shoulder to shoulder, for many years. It’s me. It’s my acquaintances, my parents, my friends.” Socialism is over. But we’re still here. On February 24, 2022, the war in Ukraine began. We realized that we had been naive to think that the communist ideology and the “red man” were a thing of the past. Today, the “red man” is bombing Kharkiv, Kyiv…” (c) Svetlana Alexievich