Demand for books about nuclear metro in Moscow growing
2023.01.24 12:58
Demand for books about nuclear metro in Moscow growing
By Kristina Sobol
Budrigannews.com – Dmitry Glukhovsky, a best-selling author, claims that ever since Russia placed him on a “wanted” list for opposing the war in Ukraine and forced him to flee abroad, sales of his books about life in the Moscow Metro after a nuclear apocalypse have skyrocketed.
43-year-old Glukhovsky is best known for his dystopian novel “Metro 2033” and its sequels, as well as their spin-off video games about how Muscovites survive a war in the city’s famous metro system, which is known as “the world’s biggest nuclear shelter.”
Glukhovsky said that it wasn’t surprising that Russians were trying to imagine life after such a disaster because President Vladimir Putin and other high-ranking Russian politicians regularly warned the West of nuclear war over its support for Ukraine.
In an interview conducted from an undisclosed location, he stated to Reuters, “It’s getting us much closer (to midnight) because nobody dared to really invoke that (possibility of Armageddon)….
“… No diplomat, let alone the head of state, would ever threaten another superpower with using its capital as a target for nuclear weapons. Therefore, that certainly brings us much closer to that possibility,” he said in English.
Based on their most recent assessment of how close they believe humanity is to annihilation due to existential threats such as nuclear war, atomic scientists reset the “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic timepiece, on Tuesday. They stated that the “time” is now 90 seconds from midnight, 10 seconds closer than it has been in the previous three years.
Despite his disapproval of Russia’s leaders’ “routinization” of nuclear threats, Glukhovsky stated that the war in Ukraine was unlikely to result in a global nuclear catastrophe.
“The Russian regime does not intend to kill itself. They are not political or religious zealots, as you know. They are extremely practical. I would say that greed and low self-esteem are their primary motivations. He continued, “I don’t see how greed and self-esteem can lead you to start a nuclear holocaust.”
Due to his anti-war stance, Glukhovsky, who faces up to 15 years in prison if he returns home, stated that his books must now be sold in Russia with the disclaimer “This was written by a foreign agent” on the cover. They can’t be bought by anyone under 18 years old.
“However, Metro 2033 was my publisher’s best-selling title. Additionally, my publisher was Russia’s largest. Therefore, he stated, “there is some kind of schizophrenia where, on the one hand, they are persecuting me and, on the other hand, the books are still available in bookstores and are bestsellers.”
Glukhovsky, a former journalist who also wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning movie adaptation of his novel “Text,” claims that he got the idea for his subway novels while traveling the Moscow Metro as a child during the Cold War and finding out that it was built 40 to 100 meters below the ground.
He noted, grimly adding, “I really started to imagine what it would be like if we are hit by missiles and then The nuclear war depicted in “Metro 2033″ occurs in 2013.” Therefore, it appears that I was wrong by a decade.
We would never be able to leave the metro or the subway, so we would have to live in the subway like it were a modern-day Noah’s Ark.
