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Old 18-03-2008, 10:22 PM   #4 (permalink)
Zoya
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Zoya will become famous soon enough
Yay! I managed to track down a copy of Let the Living Remember at a more than reasonable price. For a book so rare I'm well pleased.

It's beautifully illustrated throughout, poems in English and Russian. Published in the USSR, 1976; I scanned some pages:
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The Motherland, bent over her daughter's ashes,
Sings this tender maternal song
About Zoya, the girl, who has become a legend,
Who died and was born for eternal life.
Dimitri Shostakovich
Song for Zoya (1944)

The War in the East
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