Quote Originally Posted by hddscan View Post
the book was published in 1925 when Stalin was nobody
Здесь я могу сказать только "What the fucking fuckity fuck have you been smoking?" И если у вас такая высококачественная травка вааще есть, следовало бы вам угостить нас! Pass the dutchie 'pon de left-hand side, mon!

Which is just my silly way of saying that Stalin certainly wasn't a "nobody" in 1925 -- even before that, around 1922, Lenin was critical of Stalin, and Bulgakov certainly knew that!