Russia is Burning Yang Lian Published in army newspapers and

Published in army newspapers and broadcast on the radio between 1942 and 1945

a scheme intended to find "the most interesting writers working in Europe today"

like a country

Cut off from his people

music and about love in its various forms

Russia is Burning Yang Lian Published in army newspapers andThe Second World War occupies a special place in Russian memory. Between the German invasion in June 1941 and the liberation of Berlin in May 1945, over 26 million Soviet civilians, servicemen and women were killed fighting the Nazis. The war also occupies a special place in the history of Russian poetry. For Anna Akhmatova the Red Army was defending the Russian language as well as Russian soil (we will defend you, Russian speech). Poems written by