Killed near Moscow

“This is we, Lord! ..”, “Scream”, “killed near Moscow” - with these and other works of Konstantin Vorobyov to the domestic reader, almost for the first time, an unlucky, unscrewed, unsightly, piercing, piercing truth about the war about the war: About the camp captivity and detachments, about the terrible losses of the first military months, about the stupidity of unprepared commanders and the cowardice of the political instructions overcome by personal soldier"s courage, however, the concentration of which, according to A. Solzhenitsyn, caused a frantic attack of Soviet official criticism. Vorobyov “for a long time and difficult in literature, his manuscripts were smashed by Moscow reviewers ... They smashed mercilessly, destroying ... For "distorting a positive image", for "pacifism", for "degerization" ... In particular, it went to the "trench ", for the" naturalistic "image of the war and for the distortion of the" image of the Soviet warrior ", ”said the author of the real book of another writer-Frontovik, Viktor Astafyev. In 2001, Konstantin Vorobyov was posthumously awarded the award of Alexander Solzhenitsyn - as a prose writer, whose works in full truth were the tragic beginning of the Great Patriotic War, its course, its consequences for the Russian village and the late bitterness of neglected veterans