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''In my blood there is no Jewish blood.
In their callous rage, all antisemites must hate me now as a Jew.
For that reason I am a true Russian.''
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933), Russian poet. "Babi Yar," (1961), trans. by George Reavey.
last lines of the poem which described the massacre of 9...
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''Give me a mystery—just a plain and simple one—a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mystery—just one!''
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933), Russian poet. "Mysteries," st. 10 (1960), trans. by Dimitri Obolensky (1965).
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''In any man who dies there dies with him,
his first snow and kiss and fight ...
Not people die but worlds die in them.''
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933), Russian poet. People.
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''Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?''
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933), Russian poet. Quoted in Observer (London, December 15, 1991).
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Babii Yar
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No monument stands over Babii Yar.
A dropp sheer as a crude gravestone.
I am afraid.
Today I am as old in years
as all the Jewish people.
Now I seem to be
a Jew.
Here I plod through ancient Egypt.
Here I perish crucified, on the cross,
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