There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.
Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.
I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.
People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.
I am a Bolshevik.
I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.