Leonid Filatov's subtle, ironic pen is capable of any literary genre: hard prose and farce, sparkling parodies and bright popular folk tales. His story “Freedom or Death” tells about the fate of the Soviet intellectual Tolik Paramonov, who left for the West, who is perhaps a symbol of the generation of the “seventies”. The author sensitively grasped the paradoxical behavior characteristic of our emigrants: desperate fighters against the Brezhnev regime in their homeland, abroad they unexpectedly became zealous defenders of communist ideals...