Russia: A Protest Signed Evtushenko

"I don't know how to sleep. I don't know how to continue living. All I know is that I have a moral duty to express to you the feelings that over power me. I am deeply concerned that our action in Czechoslovakia is a tragic mistake and a bitter blow against Soviet-Czech friendship and the world Communist movement."

So began a passionate telegram of protest that, reported the London Sunday Times in a copyrighted story last week, had been sent by Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier...

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