Word: sechenov
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Stalin said: . . . These people, devoid of conscience and honor, people with a morale of beasts, have the impudence to call for the destruction of the great Russian nation, the nation of Plekhanov, of Lenin, of Belinsky and Chernyshevsky, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, Gorki, Chekhov, Sechenov and Pavlov, Repin and Surikov, Suvarov and Kutuzov...
Gorki, son of an upholsterer, himself a worker in the railway shops of Tiflis, wrote of tramps and social outcasts with the familiarity of a man who was one. A city took his name. Chekhov made heroes and heroines of people who suffered. Sechenov and Pavlov, the greatest Russian physiologists, tried to analyze suffering...
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