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To: KLP who wrote (254559)	6/15/2008 4:03:45 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793698

about Bulgakov, makes me wonder how Stalin didn't have him killed.... What was his early life like? And most of all, how does a mind come up with some of the things he came up with? Good questions. I used to know more about Bulgakov and all those things, but it was a long time ago. Stalin was an unpredictable and peculiar man. Another one whom he never hurt - at least physically - was Boris Pasternak. There were others. Remember reading that once Stalin actually called Pasternak on the phone - to have a personal chat. Apparently, in the end he hung up on the poet. Bulgakov lived through wars and revolutions - and the absurdities and cruelties of the early Soviet regime. He must have given a tremendous amount of thought to issues of Good and Evil, God and Satan. Pontius Pilate in the novel is destined to regret for an eternity his own lack of courage -- he failed to save the life of the wandering Philosopher out of fear for his own social position and career. Such lack of courage is not an uncommon human quality.