Share this page: So on and on we walked without thinking of rest passing craters, passing fire, under the rocking fire of '41 tottering crazy on its smoking columns. -- The Companion. Over Babiy Yar There are no memorials. The steep hillside like a rough inscription. -- Babiy Yar. Leaves -- we cannot have, sky -- we cannot have, But there is so much we can have -- to embrace tenderly in a darkened room. -- Babiy Yar. No Jewish blood runs among my blood, but as I am as bitterly and hardly hated to every anti-Semite as if I were a Jew. By this I am a Russian. -- Babiy Yar. Life is a rainbow which also includes black. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, quoted in: Guardian, 11 August 1987 Share this page:

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