Storms on Olympus

by time news

2023-12-22 05:00:52

Some facts seem proven, they concern two first-rate writers. In May 1934 he was arrested in Moscow, accused of counter-revolutionary activities, by Osip Mandelstam; Thus began a period of prisons and confinement for the great Russian poet that would end with his death, four years later, in a Siberian labor camp. In June 1934, therefore, a few days after Mandelstam’s arrest, Stalin made a telephone call to Boris Pasternak. And from here begins the darkness, the different versions about the exact terms of that brief conversation in which Stalin would have asked Pasternak for his opinion on the detained poet.
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