The Soviet's Past Resurfaces

Let the Past Collapse on Time! (Vladimir Sorokin) from the New York Review of Books
"Yeltsin’s revolution ended up being “velvet”: it did not bury the Soviet past and did not pass judgment on its crimes, as was the case in Germany after World War II. All those Party functionaries who became instant “democrats” simply shoved the Soviet corpse into a corner and covered it with sawdust. “It will rot on its own!” they said. Alas, it didn’t."