It’s not pride: why couldn’t Katia from “Moscow doesn’t believe in tears” keep Rudik?

In fact, there are several versions about this: someone believes that Katerina understood that she was not a match for Rodion, and therefore refused any claims to him, his money or any other help with the ‘child. Someone is sure that the young, naive, not at all penetrating Katya was simply frightened by the harsh, arrogant and heartless mother of Rudik: this will easily break the life of you and the child. Well, the most popular option is pride: Katerina did not want to humiliate herself, it was easier for her to take the child away from herself than to be in the shameful role of a beggar.

Now we think: pride is a good thing, of course, but what is the child responsible for? Moreover, Rodion’s family is not poor, so alimony had to be demanded. And there is nothing humiliating about that. Why didn’t Kate do it?

The answer is simple: she couldn’t. She had no leverage to pressure Rodion.

The first series dates from 1958. At that time, a decree from 1944 was in force, in which there was such an article:

“20. Annul a mother’s existing right to sue to establish paternity and recover alimony for the maintenance of a child born to a person to whom she is not related by registered marriage.

Two years later, the Soviet government finally realized that something was wrong with this decree and made changes. But, unfortunately, even then nothing changed for Katerina: in September 1960, after the adoption of a special resolution by the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR, women were given the opportunity to receive a pension child support for a child born out of wedlock . This was done in court when he provided evidence of at least a short-term cohabitation of the plaintiff with the father of the child.

Katerina and Rodion, of course, did not have cohabitation. In fact, all they had with the Witnesses was a few joint parties, in which Rudik was far from the only man. How to prove that the child is his? Certainly not. He and his mother, of course, would deny Rodion’s involvement in this situation.

That’s why the point is not only and not so much in the pride of the main character, but in the fact that she simply had no options – only to raise the child herself.

However, it turned out for the best, right?