Paranoia In Breaking Stalin's Nose

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The characters in Breaking Stalin’s Nose are paranoid because they live in the Soviet Union, a country were at the time people were encouraged to report their fellow citizens to the authorities if they had acted suspicion about the person’s loyalty to communism. The characters are mistrustful because having your neighbor report you is shown in the novel to be enough to get you thrown in jail or executed. Though the paranoia the characters’ experience in the novel could also come from the fact that the Communist Party during this period in history had everyone in the Soviet Union believing that there are spies hidden among them. That these spies could be anyone, even the people you trust the most. For example, Sasha’s father in the beginning

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