Vasily Shukshin: How many lives destroyed

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Russian writers on war ==== Vasily ShukshinFrom A MatchmakingTranslated by Robert Daglish It was on May 9th. Victory Day. As usual on that day the whole village gathered at the cemetery, in memory of those who had been killed in the war. Someone from the village […]

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