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Intertextuality between Ginzburg’s Krutoj marshrut and Chukovsky’s Cockroach becomes naturally evident by Ginzburg’s direct citing Chukovsky’s text. Ginzburg reads Chukovsky’s text in a meeting with friends at her home. Both texts acquire new meanings thanks to the aesthetic functions of intertextuality, whereas each texts as separate ones could not have the same significances. According to the general evaluation the cockroach with mustache in Chukovsky’s text cannot be a caricature of Stalin, for Stalin was not a politically prominent figure at the time when this text was written. But the cockroach with mustache is nothing but the Stalin’s double within the context of intertextuality between the two texts. The fact that animals are eating each others under the presure of fear created by the cockroach with mustache in Chukovsky’s text is overlapping in Ginzburg’s text as multilineal betrayals among Soviet citizens disclosing not committed crimes. The cockroach’s intention to eat other animals’ children for suffer is a direct allegory to the children’s death of hunger and cold in Kolyma, including Ginzburg’s elder son Alesha. Ordinary animals’ curse of the cockroach is an echo of Soviet citizens’ abhorrence to Stalin which is possible owing to the aesthetic functions of intertextuality.