Growing up

The second book of stories and stories of the poet and writer Mikhail Etzel is autobiographical, tracing childhood and youth that passed in the terrible, bloody period of political repressions of Soviet history. He grew up in the family of exiles, a family of wonderful people of his time.
The seal of exiled "forever" - "enemy of the people" constantly tormented him, and the hero of his story - the siter of the concentration camp with the 58th article: “You are right - enough of the Gulag nasty things, but your childhood and youth was spoiled, in the same way They spit the soul. "
But no matter how much in his life the terrible, disgusting and omnipotent in those days of nonhumans, generated by the communist Gulag authority, he constantly met and enjoyed introducing into his narratives of bright, unbending, intelligent, intelligent, real patriots of his Russia, of his own. Philosophically reflecting on the causes of the tragedy of its people, the country in the 20th century