Hundreds were turned away from tho lioscow Polytechnic Musoum when Ilya Ghronuburg read extracts from the as yet unpublished 4th and 5th volumes of his momoirs, The crowd of over 1,000 heard him say,when asked how he managed to survive the Stalin era, that somotimes life was like a lottery ticket - he had "drawn a lucky number," When asked about his feelings when he heard of the death of Pasternak, ho said that the four line announcement of Pasternak's death was unworthy of a great Russian poet." at which point ts audience burst into applause.
The young Russian poet, Yevtushenko, whose recent denunciation of a anti-semitism in Russian provoked charges of "“pyymy cosmopolitan", etc., has replied in the form of a poom, This poem has not so far been published by the Soviet press, but has appeared in the Polish "Polityka" and goes beyond just a charge of anti-semitism. We have appended the text, as per Guardian report as a supplement.