HIST 4600Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Vladimir Ivashov
Document Summary
The story of a nineteen-year-old soldier pvt. Ivashov) as he tries to make his way home for a visit during a six day leave. Begins with mother standing at the road people use to go in and out of town, waiting for her son alyosha to return home, knowing that he never would because he died. Alyosha blows up two tanks and the commander offers him a decoration, instead he asks if he can go home to see his mother. Two days to get there, two days to fix the roof, two days to get back. He is a peasant not a worker. The ukrainian woman lying in a bed of flowers representing ukraine itself. Alyosha is so virtuous never kisses her, offended by the wife cheating (taking back the soap after giving it to her) Meant to be a universal story for any country. The word soviet union is never mentioned.