Yerevan: Noyan Tapan Publ., 2010, 172 p. Doubt is already part of faith. Daniel Harms There is an era that has left a deep mark on the life of several generations of our country. It brings back the memory of my contemporaries, who never came to terms with the death and suffering of their relatives and are trying to comprehend that difficult and tragic time - the time of their childhood. This is the talented work of Aram Sargsyan. As a young boy in the early 1950s, he was confronted with many strange but deeply wounded things. A tuberculosis patient, still a young father who can't even pet his child. His father's heart-rending attempts to seek rehabilitation for the unjust sentence that condemned him to years in the Gulag only serve to undermine his already poor health. The fear that due to illness, he will not have time to get a certificate, the issuance of which was always postponed for various bureaucratic reasons. Rehabilitation certificate - an opportunity to lead a normal life for the whole family, and above all for the son. Without her, the doors of educational institutions will be closed to him, and without her, he and his mother are still formally members of the family of the enemy of the people. The book describes the terrible case of a boy who was not accepted into the Komsomol because his father was not officially rehabilitated after Stalin's death. The boy could not stand the shame and hanged himself. For Aram's father, trying to achieve rehabilitation is the last duty to the family, which he never managed to fulfill. The era of the "effective manager" has gone through all the peoples of the USSR without exception. It is difficult to understand why some representatives of the current generations are still ready to glorify the regime that methodically destroyed its own citizens and broke the fate of millions of people. Can false ideas about power, deep resentment and disillusionment with the current situation lead us to look for an ideal among the executi ... Read more