Three playwrights at the first congress of the Writers' Union discussed what kind of literature should be in the Soviet Union. One of them did not live to see the age of thirty-seven, another was shot that year, and the third survived all these cataclysms and died at a dacha near Moscow from a stroke. For those who know Soviet literature well, it is obvious who these people were. This is Nikolai Pogodin, who came up with a story about loving a man with a gun and creating his own Leniniana. This is Victor Kirshon - a man who was patronized by People's Commissar Yagoda himself and who wrote letters to Stalin himself. All of them served literature to the best of their talent and ability. And another one of them was able to create that image of a liberated woman who froze as a bronze monument in the center of Baku. And his name was Jafar Jabbarli. He was a naive romantic, and only this can justify the fact that he risked speaking out against Kirshon in his dispute with Pogodin and speaking at the congress about what true literature should be.