Aglaia Revkina, very young, truly believed in the communist ideal, believing actively ("riding around the local area on horseback, in a leather jacket and with a Nagant revolver"), and remained faithful to her ideals throughout her life. "Stalin taught her that for a high ideal it's worth sacrificing everything and that one must spare no one." Therefore, when new times came and the statue of Joseph Vissarionovich was toppled from its pedestal, Aglaia could not endure such desecration — with difficulty, she placed the monument in her apartment. And so she lived. In a grotesque form, the wise satirist Vladimir Voinovich speaks about the tragic pages of our history, about people whose human nature was distorted by blind faith in monumental, demanding, and quite bloodthirsty leaders...