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1933–2017 Russia
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (18 July 1933 - 1 April 2017) is a controversial Russian poet and film director. During the Soviet era he spoke out publicly against Stalinism and rejected socialist realism, but was himself criticised by many Soviet dissidents.
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In any man who dies there dies with him,
People (1961)
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
The hell with it. Who never knew
Lies (1952)
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
Time has a way of demonstrating
No people are uninteresting.
People (1961)
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life
No Jewish blood runs among my blood,
Babiy Yar (1961)
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!
Mysteries (1960)
So on and on
The Companion (1954)
Over Babiy Yar
Babiy Yar (1961)
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