I have written more than once that our perception of the repressions of 1937-38 today is only one-sided. But in that artistic milieu there was a large group of people who welcomed the repression and personally benefited from it. They perceived them as a "normalization" of life. Irina Lukyanova in her biography of Chukovsky (in the ZhZL series) describes how, starting in 1933, the children's author began to "straighten his shoulders." When in the beginning his perpetrators, the "leftists" from RAPP, LEF, etc., were pushed out of the mainstream, and the poor 50-year-old father of a large family, was thrown out of life, suddenly they start advertising, he is called to all kinds of committees, he goes on tour; Then money flows to him. 1938-39 were generally the best years for Chukovsky. He gets a dacha in Perdalkino, a large apartment in Moscow and a personal car. He is awarded the Order of the Red Banner. His material and creative success cannot even be overshadowed by the executed husband of his daughter Lydia, the physicist Matvey. Like the Bulgakov family, Prishvin, the science fiction writer Belyaev, Faustovsky and others, he is happy about the arrests of his former criminals, who persecuted him in the twenties for "Philistine songs for children", for being a cadet, "a fellow traveler on the right". The same Paustowski writes in 1937 (in a letter to Eichler): "The hardened crooks enjoyed unlimited trust for decades and betrayed their country, as Radek and others did. The case of the saboteurs is so monstrous that it is difficult to grasp it - today we heard on the radio excerpts from these indictments against this indictment." Chukovsky rejoiced at the trial and execution of Zinoviev and Kameniv - for their personal grievances: the first, being the mayor of Petrograd, poisoned the writer, the second, Kameniv, head of the publishing house "Academia", hacked Chukovsky's translations to death.

I have written more than once that our perception of the repressions of 1937-38 today is only one-sided. But in that artistic milieu there was a large group of people who welcomed the repression and personally benefited from it. They perceived them as a "normalization" of life. Irina Lukyanova in her biography of Chukovsky (in the ZhZL series) describes how, starting in 1933, the children's author began to "straighten his shoulders." When in the beginning his perpetrators, the "leftists" from RAPP, LEF, etc., were pushed out of the mainstream, and the poor 50-year-old father of a large family, was thrown out of life, suddenly they start advertising, he is called to all kinds of committees, he goes on tour; Then money flows to him. 1938-39 were generally the best years for Chukovsky. He gets a dacha in Perdalkino, a large apartment in Moscow and a personal car. He is awarded the Order of the Red Banner. His material and creative success cannot even be overshadowed by the executed husband of his daughter Lydia, the physicist Matvey. Like the Bulgakov family, Prishvin, the science fiction writer Belyaev, Faustovsky and others, he is happy about the arrests of his former criminals, who persecuted him in the twenties for "Philistine songs for children", for being a cadet, "a fellow traveler on the right". The same Paustowski writes in 1937 (in a letter to Eichler): "The hardened crooks enjoyed unlimited trust for decades and betrayed their country, as Radek and others did. The case of the saboteurs is so monstrous that it is difficult to grasp it - today we heard on the radio excerpts from these indictments against this indictment." Chukovsky rejoiced at the trial and execution of Zinoviev and Kameniv - for their personal grievances: the first, being the mayor of Petrograd, poisoned the writer, the second, Kameniv, head of the publishing house "Academia", hacked Chukovsky's translations to death.

In general, in describing any historical process, it is bad when only one side gets the floor. And then it doesn't become history, but a legend.