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Wednesdays in Moscow. Árni Bergmann reports.
No Icelander has come to know Soviet society as intimately as Árni Bergmann. He went to Moscow for university studies as a young man and stayed there for many years. His years of study in Moscow were one of the most significant periods of upheaval in the post-war history of the Soviet Union.
This is the period of Khrushchev's secret speech and Solzhenitsyn's first books - a time of bright hopes that the Soviet Union would succeed in freeing itself from the shackles of Stalinism.
Árni crystallizes the outlook on life of the generation that was formed under these circumstances, its hopes, and no less the disappointments that were already on the way. Here we get to know a colorful human life, artists and students, dissidents as well as supporters of the organization, and not least those ordinary people who cannot be classified in this way. In the stories of these people, the fate of the Soviet nations in the twentieth century can be discerned. Árni Bergmann has for some time made an important contribution to the cultural and social debate in this country. By virtue of his diverse experience and extensive knowledge, he has succeeded in blurring those discussions from low-key and monotonous to more open-minded and multifaceted attitudes.
No Icelander has come to know Soviet society as intimately as Árni Bergmann. He went to Moscow for university studies as a young man and stayed there for many years. His years of study in Moscow were one of the most significant periods of upheaval in the post-war history of the Soviet Union.
This is the period of Khrushchev's secret speech and Solzhenitsyn's first books - a time of bright hopes that the Soviet Union would succeed in freeing itself from the shackles of Stalinism.
Árni crystallizes the outlook on life of the generation that was formed under these circumstances, its hopes, and no less the disappointments that were already on the way. Here we get to know a colorful human life, artists and students, dissidents as well as supporters of the organization, and not least those ordinary people who cannot be classified in this way. In the stories of these people, the fate of the Soviet nations in the twentieth century can be discerned. Árni Bergmann has for some time made an important contribution to the cultural and social debate in this country. By virtue of his diverse experience and extensive knowledge, he has succeeded in blurring those discussions from low-key and monotonous to more open-minded and multifaceted attitudes.