In the USSR, where I grew up, the most famous hero, a communist martyr, and an official role model to follow was Pavlik Morozov, a 13-year-old boy from a Siberian village who, in 1932, was supposedly murdered by kulaks for his loyalty to the young socialist State. As usual with ideological martyrs, most of the […]

In the USSR, where I grew up, the most famous hero, a communist martyr, and an official role model to follow was Pavlik Morozov, a 13-year-old boy from a Siberian village who, in 1932, was supposedly murdered by kulaks for his loyalty to the young socialist State. As usual with ideological martyrs, most of the