Re:Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died
by coffeemug on Sunday April 02, 2017 @06:40PM
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According to wikipedia:
When Yevtushenko first visited Babi Yar he was shocked to find no memorial. Instead he saw a garbage dump, right on top of thousands of dead bodies, with trucks coming in to dump more garbage.
He was so moved by the sight that he wrote the poem in a couple of hours in his hotel room.
When Yevtushenko first visited Babi Yar he was shocked to find no memorial. Instead he saw a garbage dump, right on top of thousands of dead bodies, with trucks coming in to dump more garbage.
He was so moved by the sight that he wrote the poem in a couple of hours in his hotel room.