What's the deal with history?
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The man browsing in the history section has a bone to pick.
“You know what pisses me off,” he tells proprietor of the store, “all these books about the SS, but very few books about the NKVD.”
The proprietor shrugs. The Second World War ended 76 years ago. Also, the proprietor of a used bookstore isn’t a publisher; he has no say over which secret police organizations of WW2 authors write about. But the man browsing in the history section is Russian, and even though the SS and the NKVD were both horrible, a strange kind of patriotism is at work here, or so it would seem.
“The NKVD was just as evil as the SS, but no books,” the Russian man says. “You don’t fuck with the NKVD.”
You don’t fuck with the SS either, I want to say. But I’m in the mystery section, and apropos of my location, it’s a mystery to me why some books sell and…
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