„But don’t trouble yourself here, Margarita. Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.“

—Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, (Penguin Books, Ltd., 1997), 382.

This is certainly Bulgakov’s sensibility in The Master and Margarita. Was this the experience of Soviet citizens? Would the book have enjoyed such popularity had it not had this core morality? This is not my experience of the world.