And there's a lot of similar examples, too.

Is it true? As a man who was born and raised, at least a few years, in a soviet union, I believe it to be true, yes. He needs to have enemies invented for him all the time! He can't live without enemies! He's completely at a loss without them!' He needs to have some kind of idea foisted on him. 'And how else can our man be governed? He has to be distracted all the time. That is why he is on of my favorite Russian writers - seems imperialism, chauvinism and fake pride did not get to his head. This book has lots and lots of those carefully masked comparisons and analogies to a real-life situations, and Dmitry is very critical without getting hypocritical or simply malicious. But despite being ' a fantasy', Glukhovsky succeeds in creating a book with lots and lots of situations and ideas that represent the current state of life in that country, as well as conveying a genuine grumpy, rude, sour and passively aggressive nature of its citizens. I guess his saving grace is that it is 'a fantasy - nothing is real about this book'. The first thought that came to my head after finishing the last book of the Metro trilogy was ' How come Dmitry Glukhovsky lives in Russia and still is not incarcerated?' I mean, everyone knows about political situation in Russia, and Metro 2035 gets VERY political. He would give anything to lead his own people from the underground onto the surface. The most stubborn of them keep cherishing a dream: when the radiation level from nuclear bombings subsides, they will be able to return to the surface and have the life their parents once had.īut the most stubborn of the stubborn continues to search for other survivors in this huge emptiness that once was called Earth. It’s been twenty years past Doomsday, and yet the survivors refuse to give up. This tiny underground world can only remind humans of an immense world they once were the masters of. The stations of Metro became city-states, and its citizens, torn apart by religions and ideologies are fighting for the now scarce commodities: air, water, and space. It’s there that they created a new world for themselves. It’s there, hundreds of feet below the ground, in the vaults of what was constructed as the world’s largest air-raids shelter that people try to outlive the end of the days. The only survivors of the last war were those who made it into the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city.

Abandoned satellites hang lonely on the orbit.

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