Posted on 02/14/2019 11:29:00 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg on Feb 2, 1905 and received her education in the city.
Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute says he is happy with the reception the author is now receiving in her hometown...
Were in a crisis in the world right now and people everywhere are looking for better ideas.
By the time her books were translated into Russian in the late 1990s, much of the nation had become disillusioned with the painful transition to capitalism. Rands holy grail the free market was seen as the primary cause of the decades inequality, hyperinflation and financial collapse.
Anastasia Grigorovskaya, a literature professor at the Tyumen State University, says Rand continues to be sidelined in her native country as a result.
Russia does not remember Ayn Rand. We need to bring her back."
Andrei Shalnev says that the writers popularity, especially among the youth, has exploded in the years since the first Ayn Rand birthday conference was held in St. Petersburg in 2014. In fact, the 30-year-old organizer, who wears a trim beard and spectacles, is among the oldest figures in the conference hall.
At the first events, around 50 to 70 people would show up, Shalnev says, and it was mostly an inside affair. This year, he boasts, more than 600 people registered as attendees at the door.
If there is any future for Russia, then it will only be possible thanks to the ideas of Ayn Rand."
Georgy, a 20-year-old sporting an iconic red Make America Great Again baseball cap, describes himself as a right-wing conservative.
"If there was a Russian Trump then I would vote for him, but he doesn't exist," he adds with a shrug.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
A must read for sure. The Bible for salvation, Atlas Shrugged for civilization.
The years of Communist rule has ingrained corruption in the culture, evidenced by the massive ‘Black Market’. Until and unless they find a moral code and create some manner of trust there will not be a ‘marketplace’. The Paranoia is strong in Russia.
I agree, to some extent. Not saying it couldn't be done, but in AS, there's a lot of introspective thinking, large monologues, and abstractions used by the author. Imagine a d'Anconia speech about money, or a Galt speech on the radio being translated into a movie. Those would have to be watered down significantly, and they're not really scenes that would play well in film.
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