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...BABI YAR by Anatoly Kuznetsov. 399 pages. Dial...
...September, 1941, and victorious Nazi armies were pouring into Russia. Toward the end of the month, the Germans ordered "all Jews of the city of Kiev and its environs" to assemble near the Jewish cemetery overlooking a ravine called Babi Yar (Old Wives Gully). They came, locking their homes behind them and carrying their valuables, believing they were to be resettled beyond the war zone. Instead, they were marched to the cliffs of Babi Yar, stripped and machine-gunned in groups of ten. By the Germans' own orderly bookkeeping, 33,771 were slaughtered in the first 48 hours...
...told, about 200,000 victims filled the vast natural grave of Babi Yar-Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, partisans, workers, even a local soccer team that imprudently defeated an all-star German army eleven. Such ultimate impartiality made it possible for postwar Soviet policy, with its own vein of antiSemitism, to try to suppress the Jewish portion of the Babi Yar massacre-until 1961, when Poet Evgeny Evtushenko memorialized the Kiev Jews in burning verse. He was rebuked by the Soviet literary Establishment, but his own rebuke, in the poem's first two lines, was lastingly effective...
...Evtushenko in Germany and from him had learned all about "fashionable Moscow youth." In Minsk, where Dmitry Shostakovich's new 13th Symphony was performed for the first time outside Moscow, a critic castigated the composer for basing part of his score on Evtushenko's famed poem. Babi Yar, a savage indictment of Soviet anti-Semitism that the literary commissars have already made Evtushenko revise...
Then Khrushchev turned on Young Poet Evgeny Evtushenko: "He shows vacillations, instability of views ... I would like to advise Comrade Evtushenko and other men of letters that they should not seek cheap sensationalism." Everyone was aware, Nikita announced, that Evtushenko recently told a Paris audience that his poem, Babi Yar (which drew fire from the Kremlin), had been "criticized by dogmatists." Such behind-the-back remarks in foreign countries will not do, hinted the Premier: "If the enemies of our cause begin to praise you for works convenient to their purpose, then the people will justly criticize you. So choose...