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Breaking Stalin's Nose
Breaking Stalin's Nose | Eugene Yelchin
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"Breaking Stalin's Nose" is one of "Horn Book"'s Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: "The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.""A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.""A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings."But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. Eugene Yelchin's moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility.
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Outstanding juvenile fiction about the Stalinist purges from the point of view of a 10-year-old who in the course of 24 hours, has his entire life and every belief he held turned upside down. https://cannonballread.com/2023/01/breaking-stalins-nose-elcicco/

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I have to use someone else's review.

"An important book for all people living in free society." Peter Sis, Author of The Wall

I could not imagine living in such terror. Twenty million people died under Stalin. And the illustrations are perfect. A student's face would be inked out if his/her parents were an "enemy".

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While I have not yet read this title, I am listening to another book about Stalin and if I loved them I would thing the world was falling down. #astheworldfallsdown #septembowie

mrp27 I liked his one. 7y
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