Word: veshenskaya
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...opinion, one man stands above and apart from all these things. He is Mikhail Sholokhov, the nearest approach to a man of genius in Russia's great tradition. The author of And Quiet Flows the Don and The Soil Upturned stays in his native village of Veshenskaya and writes. He does not come to Moscow to spend the writers' tremendous royalties and reap his great honors. He refuses to become the president of the Writers' Un ion, because he is too busy - writing. He writes for no censorship except truth as he sees it. He is just...
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