Ilya Ehrenburg
Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)
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His wartime dispatches urged Red Army soldiers to kill without mercy — words that electrified the Soviet front and sparked decades of argument about where righteous fury ends and something else begins.
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Born in 1891, Ehrenburg reported from three wars across half a century, filing copy from the trenches of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. His articles during the Great Patriotic War — raw, incendiary, calling for vengeance against the invaders — made him a hero to soldiers and a lightning rod for controversy; he later insisted he meant only armed aggressors, not a people. After Stalin's death in 1953, his novel "The Thaw" gave a name to the slow melt of Soviet repression. He co-edited "The Black Book" with Vasily Grossman, documenting the H…
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