Word: russias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This means that writers in Russia are faced with the following choices...
...then 100-to-l that what they write will not be published. It will simply be buried. It may even be the cause of the author's physical destruction. It is a sad thoueht that Russia has long and deep "traditions" in this connection. The best Russian writers were always persecuted, dragged before the courts, murdered or reduced to suicide...
...books being burned in Russia in 1937, under Stalin. I saw books being burned in 1942 in occupied Kiev, under Hitler, and now it has pleased God to let me know in my lifetime that my own books are being burned. Because now that I have left the Soviet Union, my books will, of course, be destroyed there too. In fact, I pray that my published works should be destroyed down to the very last one. Since they are not what I actually wrote and wanted to say to my readers, that means, after all, that they...
...have succeeded in bringing those films across the frontier with me-thousands of pages on film, everything I have ever written in my life. They include my known works, such as Babi Yar, but in its true form. They also include things that could not be published in Russia. And some that I doubt whether I shall be able to publish in the West...
...everybody else and where hypocrisy prevails, does not allow anyone to take the risk of entrusting a single person with such a secret. Moreover, I was twice refused permission to travel abroad. I realized that a third refusal would mean that I would never be allowed out of Russia...