"Notes of a Red Army Officer" is a duet by Slawomir Gaudyn and Edvard Keizik, in which a satirical mono performance is presented in the form of a Soviet officer's diary, about a man who in 1939 liberated Vilnius and Lyda in September, and then stayed there during the German occupation. It is a virulent satire of Soviet propaganda, the army and the NKVD on the mentality of the Red Army and the Bolsheviks. It is a grotesque, but extremely bitter look at the fate of people during the years of Soviet and German occupation. Gaudynas accurately conveyed Piasecki's way of thinking and behaving as an educated Soviet soldier, his admiration for the ideology and the Soviet leader. He mocks communist propaganda, its pompous style, brazen lies and anti-humanist way of achieving theoretically lofty goals.
Edvards Keizik's hero is Miška Zubov, who is extremely self-satisfied and proud of his achievements, the defender of the proletariat. in 1939 in September he restores freedom to the oppressed citizens of the Polish state. He brings them the greatest "achievements" of the Bolsheviks: hunger, terror, poverty, enslavement, fear and death, so-called progress and true freedom. He admires the heroism of the Red Army fighting civilians, the actions of the great socialist leader Hitler (unfortunately only until June 1941), the wisdom of the only infallible commander, Stalin.
The picture drawn by Slavomir Gaudyn is full of bitter irony. If the bare facts contradict the propaganda slogans, so much the worse for the facts. This mono performance shows a world where the state comes first, not the person. In which every authority must always be worshiped and respected. Where you should never say what you think, where you have to see the enemy everywhere, suspect everyone, where no one can be trusted. Because communist thought is greater than rational thinking, which is also evidenced by world events of not so distant times.
On the other hand, it is hard to laugh when you realize that the struggle between a humane approach to man, the right to freedom and dignity, and Bolshevism, which seeks to "drain" man to the bottom, turn him into a mere tool, a slave, who no longer has a conscience or honor in the world is already underway over 100 years. And, unfortunately, we have to admit that a large part of the people have become so accustomed to Bolshevism that they accept its rules as a matter of course, without even realizing it.
