The Chairman of the Poor Peasants’ Committee Visits the School — Chapter from the Novel "Stone" by Volodymyr Shablia
The Chairman of the Poor Peasants’ Committee Visits the School Stone — Book Three : Unrealized expectations — Chapter 10 by Volodymyr Shablia February 1933. The village of Tomakivka. The final lesson of the day — the fifth — was drawing to a close. It was called “Political Education.” The subject was compulsory for all students and was meant to instill political awareness and ideological consciousness in the younger generation. To be honest, it was one of the few classes Peter found unbearably dull. Still, expressing one’s opinion about a subject was not encouraged, so the boy endured it in silence. Rules existed to be followed, after all. “The Communist Party, the government, and our beloved leader Comrade Stalin personally care for your well-being and ours!” proclaimed their homeroom teacher, Svetlana Afanasyevna, with solemn emphasis. “Following the precepts of the great Lenin, they are leading us toward a radiant future, waging an uncompromising struggle a...