Podcast presentation. Voices from Stalingrad written by Ferdinanda Cremascoli, translated in collaboration with Chat GPT, read automatically by Narakeet.

Two novels about the Second World War, "Stalingrad" and "Life and Fate" by Vasily Grossman, his masterpiece, reveal how a war of liberation can culminate in servitude, and a battle against ruthless tyranny can result in the establishment of another bloody tyranny.

The masterpiece of Vasily Grossman tells the story of a war, a people’s war, and tells the story of a disappointment. But it also tells a story of trust in the moral energy of a people, which like light, crosses deserts of darkness, and rises in the leaves of a willow tree, in the living sap of a birch. It hides in crystals, in coal and gives birth to life.

The moral energy of a population cannot be destroyed, so it forces dictators to present themselves as an expression of the popular will, and to present their own ends as good for the people.

The original text was translated into English by Nanda Cremascoli with the aid of Chat GPT. The English text was  converted into an audio file with Narakeet.com software