Russia is Burning Yang Lian like a country

like a country

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

Death and the Changing of the Seasons

the transcendent states that arise from the simple contemplation of the earth

Russia is Burning Yang Lian like a countryThe 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