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Over Babiy Yar
there are no memorials.
The steep hillside like a rough inscription.
I am frightened.
Today I am as old as the Jewish race.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko Babiy Yar (1961)

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In any man who dies there dies with him,
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The hell with it. Who never knew
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