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The article is a complete lie, in the USSR Tolkien’s works were not considered an allegory for the Cold War, thought so rather in the west, remember at least the story with the Swedish translation where Sauron was equated with Stalin, because of which even Tolkien rebelled and asked to be removed because for the text of the translation, and the Marxist readings of Tolkien in the West appeared and were popularized later already, during the years of the counterculture in the 60-70s, just the same time when Tolkien appeared in the USSR and there were either partial or complete translations of his works, and so in the USSR Tolkien later appeared later because they either didn’t know about him or didn’t consider him an important author, but an ordinary writer of fairy tales, and this against the background of the fact that the USSR had difficult relations with foreign culture, in particular in the matter of literature, that’s all,and of course, the authors contradict themselves, it turns out that everything was only in samizdat (which is of course not true), but all the same there were official translations (which of course is true) and without any censorship, since there was even nothing to censor there, this fantasy 37.54.230.242 (talk) 13:40, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
