The past and the present
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Having passed the harsh and dangerous path of a naval officer of the Baltic Fleet (after the war he commanded a minesweeper that neutralized German mines, which was equated with military operations), Mikhail did not stop exclusively on naval topics, in his essays he touches on a lot of other topics—from criticism of American democracy to the fate of Russian Jewry and the education of young people. One of his previous works—a book about his mother—also included as a part of his new book. And there was so much warmth and love in her, so tragically was the fate of a Jewish woman, whose husband was fighting at the front, and she and her four small children were going through the circles of an evacuation hell, through the hunger and cold of two Asian republics, that she could not help touching... On the way to evacuation, Mikhail, the eldest of four children, happened to witness a terrible scene. A nearby freight car was carrying Chechens and Ingushs into exile, indiscriminately accused by the Stalinist authorities of “betrayal.” In front of the teenager’s eyes, an armed guard shot and killed an elderly gray-bearded Chechen just because he wanted to get water for his sick granddaughter. Such impressions are not forgotten.
