Day of the Oprichnik: A novel

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Autors, izmantojot simbolus, vēsturiskus precedentus, ir radījis sava veida satīru par tagadējo varu RUS. The oprichniks were a 16th-century combination of bodyguard/secret police/pillagers devoted to Tsar Ivan the Terrible. If we have learned anything from 2020, and we haven’t, it’s that whatever crisis lies ahead, whatever pain and suffering we must endure in the future, we know for certain our elected officials will utterly powerfuck the whole thing and kill thousands of people through incompetence and indifference, and our only chance of electing better people will perpetually be spoiled by mutton-headed twerps voting for similar mutton-headed twerps. Then Komiaga watches the news and strides out to his gleaming red Mercedov, where a groom presents the head of a freshly killed wolfhound for the day’s hood ornament (“Andrei Danilovich, your approval! In a hallucinatory drug sequence, Andrei Danialovich Komyaga who likes to cast himself as a bogatyr imagines himself and the other Oprichniki merging their bodies into a zmei gorynchy that destroys America.

At one point there's a giant homosexual-penetration scene where they become a caterpillar of penetration. There is an attendance at a dress rehearsal for a show which the Tsar will attend, involving farting jokes, a bit of bribery to help the friend of a prima ballerina (yes, surprise, surprise,corruption is rife in this Russia). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writing, becoming a major presence in the Moscow underground of the 1980s. P. Lovecraft, posed a threat to Russians should it choose to rise from its lair deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. Opričnici su nešto između templara, pretorijanske grarde, zemunskog klana, udbaških tajnih službi (da ne nabrajam dalje).

The American critic Victoria Nelson noted in her review:"In a pitch-perfect channeling of the fascist temperament, the voice [of the narrator] proudly sharing these brutal exploits radiates a naïve and sentimental piety ruthlessly undercut by vicious sadism and self-regarding cunning. The brutal comradeship of the select few, agents of the Tsar whimsical will, alludes to the brotherhood of the FSB and the Kremlin cronies; a privileged stratum corrupt and cruel, contemptuous of the ordinary people and envious of the Oligarchs, the modern Boyars.

This was a very specific mix, this book, this creepy neo-patriarchal grotesque somewhat scifi-ish dystopia.

The country is, as with Putin’s Russia, nominally Christian with, for example, obscenity banned (for which, as with many other transgressions, real or imagined) the punishment is severe. The title of the book is a reference to the 1962 novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Some parts of this satire are immediately recognizable -- the intertwinement of Church and State, the strained Russia-China relationship, the corruption of officials, and so on.Good Literature can deepen our understanding of history and the dynamics of society, as well as the motives of the powerful few. Komiaga is one of the elites, enforcing the laws of the land, helping the Czar’s to rule with an iron fist for the sake of the motherland and the Russian Orthodox Church. The Soviet years and the messy capitalist confusion that followed are long over, the decadent junkie cyberpunks in the West have been shut out with a huge wall, the Czar is back in the Kremlin, the sacred Russian church is in charge of moral, and the not-so-secret secret police keep everyone in check. The most notable distinguishing marks of the vory are that their bodies are covered with elaborate tattoos full of symbolism about their status within the vory v zakone and that they always wear Orthodox crucifixes around their necks. als großem Vorbild, die Abschottung vom Westen, die Hinwendung zu China, der latente Antisemitismus, die ausgreifenden Korruption vor allem in höchsten Kreisen.