October 26, 1932 became the birthday of the catch trial. On this day, Joseph Stalin, during a meeting with a group of Soviet writers in Maxim Gorky's apartment, called Soviet writers "engineers of human souls. " And he added that producing souls is more important than producing tanks. Vyacheslav Molotov and Voroshilov People's Commissar of Defense attended the same meeting with the leader. The latter did not like the part about tanks, and he tried to object, but was abruptly stopped by the leader. On the part of the "Engineers of Human Souls", the meeting was attended by Ivan Gronsky, Leopold Aberbach (shot 5 years later), Mikhail Koltsov (shot 8 years later), Lydia Saifulina, and Sevolod Ivanov. During that meeting, Stalin announced his intention to establish the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union and clearly formulated its tasks and principles: "An artist must show life honestly. And if he really shows our lives, then in them he cannot help but notice and show what leads them to socialism. It will be socialist realism."

October 26, 1932 became the birthday of the catch trial. On this day, Joseph Stalin, during a meeting with a group of Soviet writers in Maxim Gorky's apartment, called Soviet writers "engineers of human souls. " And he added that producing souls is more important than producing tanks. Vyacheslav Molotov and Voroshilov People's Commissar of Defense attended the same meeting with the leader. The latter did not like the part about tanks, and he tried to object, but was abruptly stopped by the leader. On the part of the "Engineers of Human Souls", the meeting was attended by Ivan Gronsky, Leopold Aberbach (shot 5 years later), Mikhail Koltsov (shot 8 years later), Lydia Saifulina, and Sevolod Ivanov. During that meeting, Stalin announced his intention to establish the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union and clearly formulated its tasks and principles: "An artist must show life honestly. And if he really shows our lives, then in them he cannot help but notice and show what leads them to socialism. It will be socialist realism."