Freedom of Speech
The outlook of Tvardovsky was formed by world-wide events: the Great October Socialist Revolution and the experience of building socialism in the USSR, the Great Patriotic War and the whole World War II, whose part the Great Patriotic War was, the beginning of the world Socialist system collapse. A genius poet, an outstanding statesman and thinker, Tvardovsky was deeply involved in these events and actively participated in them. Tvardovsky with his «Novy Mir» literary magazine became the center of attraction for all democratic forces during the 1950s and especially the 1960s.