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Comrade Timofeyev
Anna Grigorievna is the chairman of the Mestkom, which is the local trade union. Severe and unrelenting, she works at the publishing house with the ostensible goal of advocating for the workers’ rights. And yet, she spends most of her time accusing employees of being enemies of the state. Along with Comrade Timofeyev, she plays an instrumental role in firing the director and Natasha.
Anna Grigorievna Quotes in Sofia Petrovna
The Sofia Petrovna quotes below are all either spoken by Anna Grigorievna or refer to Anna Grigorievna. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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“Arrested last night was the ex-supervisor of our print shop, now unmasked as an enemy of the people—Gerasimov. He turned out to be the nephew of the Moscow Gerasimov, who was unmasked a month ago. With the connivance of our party organization, which is suffering, to use Comrade Stalin’s apt expression, from the idiotic disease of complacency, Gerasimov continued to, so to speak, ‘operate’ in our print shop even after his own uncle, the Moscow Gerasimov, had been unmasked.”
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Anna Grigorievna Quotes in Sofia Petrovna
The Sofia Petrovna quotes below are all either spoken by Anna Grigorievna or refer to Anna Grigorievna. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
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“Arrested last night was the ex-supervisor of our print shop, now unmasked as an enemy of the people—Gerasimov. He turned out to be the nephew of the Moscow Gerasimov, who was unmasked a month ago. With the connivance of our party organization, which is suffering, to use Comrade Stalin’s apt expression, from the idiotic disease of complacency, Gerasimov continued to, so to speak, ‘operate’ in our print shop even after his own uncle, the Moscow Gerasimov, had been unmasked.”
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