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34. Babi Yar by dissident poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko

Tue Mar 1, 2022, 03:19 PM

Mar 2022

Written 1961 to protest the USSR’s refusal to build a monument at Babi Yar, where 33,000 were murdered and dumped in the ravine in September 1941. The dissident poet reflects on that number, as he has just become 33 years old.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony is based in part on this poem.

(I am still trying to find an English translation that I can copy here. For something I remember so well, it is turning out to be difficult to find when I want to.)

Meanwhile I leave you with this.

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Stunning Tweet from Zelensky's official account. [View all] RockCreek Mar 2022 OP

Click on the three dots in the upper right of tweet, then click on embed to get 'embed code' Donkees Mar 2022 #1

Thank you! N/T RockCreek Mar 2022 #2

that is technically not correct Celerity Mar 2022 #12

Thanks for clearing this up. ShazzieB Mar 2022 #44

Embed means to integrate external content into another website or page. You embed something when you Celerity Mar 2022 #45

Or just copypaste the link. (Copy only up to the first question mark.) Grokenstein Mar 2022 #3

Thanks! Bookmarking thread to always have these instructions RockCreek Mar 2022 #6

Tweets & video are easy, images not so much. Grokenstein Mar 2022 #11

I just click on a twitter photo to 'get image address' and then just paste it here. Donkees Mar 2022 #14

Thank you ! n/t RockCreek Mar 2022 #15

He's right. SusanaMontana41 Mar 2022 #52

I agree. History is watching. JasonMain Mar 2022 #4

Here is the picture. Marius25 Mar 2022 #5

Dear g-d. I didn't know the context when I posted the tweet. N/t. RockCreek Mar 2022 #7

Russian missile hits the Babyn Yar memorial park in Kyiv where thousands of Jews were murdered L. Coyote Mar 2022 #13

For reference: Babin Yar is where Nazis executed tens of thousands of Kyiv's Jews in 1941 Beastly Boy Mar 2022 #8

I visited this site in May 2019 Lucky Luciano Mar 2022 #9

Heartbreaking liberalla Mar 2022 #10

No low is too low from right, Russia, trump. LakeArenal Mar 2022 #16

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" (Sir Walter Scott, 1808) Roc2020 Mar 2022 #17

Wow how does this man, under such unbelievable duress, continue to make these Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2022 #18

i asked that question in a thread yesterday. Never again my ass. onecaliberal Mar 2022 #19

Waiting for the Babyn Yar deniers to show up..... multigraincracker Mar 2022 #20

Here? At DU? Hekate Mar 2022 #50

Of coarse not. multigraincracker Mar 2022 #51

I had to look up Babyn Yar... despicable, beyond words! Wholeheartedly agree with the poster who Karadeniz Mar 2022 #21

Have there been any statements from Israel about what is going on in Ukraine? I haven't Samrob Mar 2022 #27

Nor have I and it's an abomination. When Zelensky said a bombed square and every square would Karadeniz Mar 2022 #31

This message was self-deleted by its author Karadeniz Mar 2022 #33

I haven't seen any RockCreek Mar 2022 #35

Thank you for overcoming your revulsion so that soldierant Mar 2022 #46

Thank you for saying that RockCreek Mar 2022 #53

I had to look up Babyn Yar... despicable, beyond words! Wholeheartedly agree with the poster who Karadeniz Mar 2022 #22

So did I. ShazzieB Mar 2022 #48

Sometimes there are no words. Karadeniz Mar 2022 #49

I didn't have to Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 #54

Biden held a call with President Zelenskyy today. L. Coyote Mar 2022 #23

Zelensky's Tweet about call RockCreek Mar 2022 #26

Babi Yar massacre IronLionZion Mar 2022 #24

I went to the USSR in 1976 when I was in college. catbyte Mar 2022 #25

He's right, you know NQAS Mar 2022 #28

Yup. There have been so many genocides since WWII. SunSeeker Mar 2022 #30

K&R Very informative thread! burrowowl Mar 2022 #29

K & R & Retweeted! SunSeeker Mar 2022 #32

Babi Yar by dissident poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko Hekate Mar 2022 #34

Beautiful to hear, and transcription as well, thank you! Bongo Prophet Mar 2022 #36

Thank you for this, Bongo Prophet! Hekate Mar 2022 #38

Thank you for sharing this. n/t RockCreek Mar 2022 #39

Thank you, Bongo Prophet. ancianita Mar 2022 #43

Thank you. I had never heard of these. N/t RockCreek Mar 2022 #40

Thank you. soldierant Mar 2022 #47

Yesterday Col Alexander Vindman spoke about President Zelensky as "a lion of Europe"... Hekate Mar 2022 #37

Rt TY Cha Mar 2022 #41

Twitter replies: Rhiannon12866 Mar 2022 #42

What does he want us do do? Polybius Mar 2022 #55