| |
| | BABI YAR By Yevgeni Yevtushenko |
 | | Growing up in Russia, I experienced antisemitism; personally directed, ubiquitous, and violent, covertly approved of by the government. |
 | | Yevgeni Yevtushenko's poem, written to expose the inhumanity of Babi Yar, and the subsequent injustice of the government's refusal to raise a monument to the thousands of Jews executed there by the Nazi troops, produced a tremendous effect in Russia. |
 | | Overt antisemitism slowly decreased, and many Russians to whom this had been normal and accepted practice, woke up to a new realization. |
| www.remember.org /witness/babiyar.html (443 words) |
|