Utópia v Leninovej záhrade
Československá komúna Interhelpo
Année de publication
2021
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It's not a mirage - the contours of a dream paradise are really looming before their eyes. They leave the Czechoslovak misery far behind and set out to follow their heart's calling - to the Soviet Union. On March 29, 1925, three hundred Slovaks and Czechs boarded a train at the Zilina station to embark on a long-distance adventure journey to Central Asia. Among them was Stefan Dubcek, disappointed with America, with his wife and four-year-old son Alexander. What drove them so far? Above all, the belief that in the Soviet Union they will experience what they did not expect at home - respect for workers and plenty of work. In the course of the next seven years, more than a thousand people from Czechoslovakia left for today's Bishkek, who together wrote the history of the Czechoslovak cooperative Interhelpo. In his documentary novel Utopia in Lenin's Garden, Slovak journalist Lukas Ondercanin offers us the story of the Interhelpo cooperative, which was established in faraway Kyrgyzstan to help build the Soviet Union. From the shards of many human destinies, he composes an intriguing mosaic of the entire existence of the Czechoslovak commune under the shields of Tansan, which between 1925 and 1945 experienced difficult moments of difficult beginnings, a period of prosperity, small and large rebellions, as well as definitive disintegration. It is a book not only about the power of agitation, but also about the real power of indestructible dreams.
