Monumental Propaganda (Monumentalnaya Propaganda)

Vladimir Voinovich was born in Stalinabad into the family of journalist Nikolai Pavlovich Voinovich (1905–1987), the executive secretary of the republican newspaper Kommunist Tadzhikistana and editor of the provincial newspaper Rabochy Khodzhen-ta, who was partly of Serbian descent and came from the district town of Novozybkov in Chernigov Governorate (now in Bryansk Oblast), and Rozalia Kolmanovna (Klimentevna) Goikhman (1908–1978), an employee of the editorial offices of these newspapers and later a mathematics teacher, who came from the settlement of Khaschevatoye in Gayvoron Uyezd, Kherson…

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