"Excellent socialist realist works always give us subtle and complex images of heroes: they emphasize the heroes' shortcomings while enhancing their strengths. In fact, the problem is not to measure the hero's good and bad, but to put the hero Doctrine itself is the subject of discussion. It is not to deny it, but to understand it. "Ivan's Childhood" points out the inevitability and ambiguity of this heroism. This boy is neither good nor evil, he is an extreme product of history. . He was thrown into this war involuntarily, and was born for it. To say that he caused panic among the warriors around him, it was only because he was no longer used to living peacefully. Violence born of pain and fear, left In him, and took root. He lived by it, so he involuntarily took on those dangerous reconnaissance missions. But what will happen to him after the war? Even if he survives, the hot magma in him Won't let him live. We know too well what evil is. In those moments, where good and evil are against each other, there is never an extreme evil in the good. That's what strikes us: Naturally, the Soviets don't have to pay for Ivan's death It was the Nazis who were responsible, the crime. But the question is not: Where does evil come from? When evil pierces good like a million needles, it reveals the tragic truth of human and historical progress."
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