' “IT IS THE WRITER’S duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader’s civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one’s eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.” #VasilyGrossman, who wrote these words in September 1944 as a Soviet war correspondent, clearly held himself to a high moral standard, which is never easy for anyone, and certainly not for a writer living under Stalin.'
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