“During the war years, people avidly read 'War and Peace' to justify their own performance (not Tolstoy's, whose attitude to life no one doubted).
And the reader said: yes, of course, my assessments are correct.
It is clear that this is so.
He who was in the spirit would avidly read 'War and Peace' at the siege of Leningrad ”
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