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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

Let me introduce some corrections, although the list of victims is much longer.

Aleksandr Block was never hounded, shamed, or driven mad. His poem "Twelve" was perceived as an acceptance of the Revolution. Blok died from hunger. Mandelstam wasn't killed; he died in the transit camp from dysentery. (I wrote about their fate recently.) Academik Likhachiov, whose books we studied, after prison became the most honorable man of the country. Babel wasn't denied publication; he was killed because he knew too much. He asked his "friend", butcher Ezhov, to be present at the tortures. The same happened with the other famous writer, Boris Pilniak; you didn't mention him.

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Trilety Wade's avatar

This is powerful. I also feel like reading the footnotes from Day Equals Night has bolstered my understanding of Russian history and culture as much as your writings always do.

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