Summary
Juz Aleshkovski: Kangaroo
In Juz Aleshkovski's most famous work, the uncompromising satire "The Kangaroo", the Soviet regime accuses the main character, the aging thief Fan Fanich, of raping the kangaroo Jema. This merciless and unsurpassed criticism of Stalin and Stalinism is still being written in Russia today. One of the heroes in the novel is J. V. Stalin himself.
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