'"The longing for the better..." "The struggle for the future..." These thoughts are coming to my mind when I read this book. You read it and it holds your attention, does not let you go and keeps you feeling the pain, and the joy that you share with the main heroes, the animals. When you read you begin to be the one of the heroes and you are involved in the plot of the story with the whole your being. But the most "dangerous" consequence of this for your ego is that if you even was not against some things that had happened in the past (or was not aware of this) you begin to understand all the bad consequences of the deeds of the Soviet regime of those times, and you helplessly admit that the author is right...'…
