[azubinski]

Unfortunately, Platonov could not stand the torture and in the second half of his life turned into a de facto mouthpiece of the regime.

However, he was not the only one, and in the end there were no others at all.

In any translation, his texts lose their meaning; now he is interesting only as another example of the work of the totalitarian selection of the “new useful people”.

[ogurechny]

Have you read “The Seventh Man”? Was it something “the regime” wanted to see, or was it more of a spit in its face?