SOVIET TRUTHS IN SULEYMAN VALIYEV'S WORKS

Suleyman Valiyev came to literature in the 30s of the 20th century, considered one of the "bloodiest" years of Azerbaijan's history. During those years, he also wrote works promoting the Soviet regime by the requirements of the time. Hamid Sultanov, one of Azerbaijan's founders of the Soviet government, is presented as a positive hero in the story "Bigli Agha (Mr Moustached)", which he wrote on the subject of the revolution. Although, at first glance, it seems as if he was rooted in the requirements of the time in every period of his work, in reality, the writer also showed the regime’s true face.

        The writer, who voluntarily went to the front during World War II, was wounded in the head in 1942 and captured by the fascists. The writer, who was investigated by the regime and sent into exile for being caught, described the realities he lived in his works after that time. In the novel "Knots", the writer sheds light on the fate of unjustly deported people by the Soviet system. In the memoir "How I Lived", the state's attitude to the people who gave their lives in the war is reflected in subtle strokes. Since the 1980s, Suleyman Valiyev, using the presence of "softening" in the field of literature, touches on the subject of bloody "reforms" and repressions carried out by the Soviet system. He reflects on the truths of repression in the essay "Chamanzaminli", the memoir "Shushabandli Azernashr", and the autobiographical novel "A bird with a broken wing has flown".

           Suleyman Valiyev touched on the subject of Soviet realities more clearly and boldly in his memoirs written during the years of independence. In his unpublished series of biographies called "Unopened Pages", the writer clarified many issues that were forbidden to be written about during the Soviet years.