Interviews
Window on Eurasia: ‘Remake’ of Fadeyev’s ‘Young Guard’ Has Islamist Radicals, Not Nazis, as Russia’s Main Enemy
Baku, May 9 - A remake of the novel that defined the way many Soviet citizens viewed the second world war attempts to make the case that Russia’s main enemy is not Hitler and National Socialism but rather Islamist radicals, a view that may win the writer some sales among Russian nationalists but that has already drawn fire from Muslim commentators in that country.