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Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is one of my favourite books. A Kiev born Jewish Soviet writer he documented the epic struggle on the Eastern front as a Soviet journalist. Unsurprisingly he also fell foul of Stalinism.

The image below shows a wonderful quote from the book. The photograph is one I took at the Soviet war memorial in Sofia, Bulgaria in the early 90s.

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