@WestCorkBidwell I didn't see the Ukraine part - I arrived in when he was talking about Pasternak; as it happens, I'm reading an #IsaacBabel story about being embedded with #Cossacks, part of the eternal crushing of humanity by one group or another #MyFirstGoose

The #unpeople of #Wikipedia "Vsevolod adopted #IsaacBabel#'s illegitimate child Emmanuil when he married Babel's one-time mistress Tamara Kashirina. Emmanuil's name was changed to "Mikhail Ivanov" and he later became a noted artist."