October 1978 Yes, the trip to the Soviet Republic turned out to be perhaps the most important of all my trips in my country and abroad. Because only in comparison to Armenia do you begin to understand what they did to Russia for 60 years. The systematic and consistent destruction of Russia, its transformation into virgin lands, a wild land, and on the other hand, the wonderful economic and cultural rise of Armenia. New houses, buildings one better than the other, beautiful roads, landscaped, tidy land, monuments, monuments, such as we never dreamed of. Where do Armenians get money? It seems that Russia has become a colony, at whose expense the distant republics are being rebuilt. But in the name of what is it done? Made by who? Fyodor Abramov (February 29, 1920, Verkula village, Pinzhsky district, Arkhangelsk region - May 14, 1983, Leningrad) - Russian writer. "live. ".