“Death went out for a walk. She just walks around to her heart’s content and takes whoever she wants. We, in principle, should already get used to this. It is possible that soon she will go out on such a wide party that we will begin to have a completely different attitude towards the sudden death of this or that acquaintance. When we talk now about someone’s goals, about war, about operations, strategies, about the cunning of enemies, about attacks on the centers, about how and where, what needs to be occupied and neutralized, sharply and skillfully to do, about a new omnipotent weapon, even when we talk about some great philosophical meanings, about the historical path, about the deep essence of what is happening and the goals of all this taken together, we talk about death too, because there will be no death now. not a single capture of small territory, not a single victory, not a single achievement. And death takes away the youngest, the most beautiful, the innocent and the most needed, the most undeserving of death. And, in principle, it doesn’t matter whose relative you are. or friend, what you did or didn’t do, wrote or said.
Somewhere very close by, people have already gotten used to death, which has staged a widespread Maslenitsa in their cities and villages, but we are still just getting used to it. But when we talk about something that will be followed by someone’s death, we must understand that death can come for us too. Whoever we are.
This is neither good nor bad. It’s just the way it is.”
“ВЧК ОГПУ”
