A Soviet war correspondent who witnessed Stalingrad and was among the first to report from Treblinka, then wrote novels so dangerous the KGB confiscated the manuscripts themselves - not just the printed copies, but the carbon paper and typewriter ribbons.
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The more difficult a man's life had been before the camp, the more furiously he lied. This lie had no practical purpose; it served simply to glorify freedom.
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National Socialism had created a new type of political criminals: criminals who had not committed a crime.
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We are restoring the Leninist norms of democracy. But Leninist norms are not the same as the bourgeois norms of democracy.
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Ivan KozhedubAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
Alexander PokryshkinAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
Lev GumilevAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
Vasily ChuikovAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
Vasily DzhugashviliAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
Alexander ZinovievAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"About this person
Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine in 1905, Grossman trained as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University, earning the nickname "Vasya the Chemist" for his diligence, then worked in the Donets Basin before shifting to writing full-time in the 1930s. When war came, the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda sent him to the front, where he covered Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Berlin, and filed some of the earliest eyewitness accounts from a Nazi death camp after Treblinka's discovery. After the war, his two major novels - Life and Fate and Everything Flows - were suppressed by Khrushchev's government as anti-Soviet; Grossman was never arrested, but the censorship was total. He died of stomach cancer in 1964 with both books still banned. Dissidents including Andrei Sakharov smuggled hidden copies west, and the novels surfaced in 1980, finally appearing in the Soviet Union in 1988.
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