The exchange quoted above reads like Grossman’s apology for his compromises on the page. Stalingrad is stylistically and intellectually dissonant, as though these sparring sisters had penned it together. And there’s the truth of the reality which will defeat the past.” Marusya retorts that there are two truths: “There is the truth of the reality forced on us by the accursed past. The workers make jokes, their confidence never flags.” She recounts the moment a new gun was wheeled out of the workshop: “I felt such love of my country that I could have gone on working for another six days.” Zhenya counters that such language rings false – it turns people into figures on posters. One scene even seems to reprise Grossman’s youthful exchange with Gorky Marusya chides her sister, Zhenya, for not appreciating that collective labour is “a source of constant moral uplift.
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