The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalita | dG1fOUs4RVJZNC1qSXM
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00:00They came by night, nine men with long poles, wrapped with towels dipped in tar.
00:09I already sense the deadly chill of your eye sockets, filled with tears gone cold.
00:16Everything repeats itself with striking exactness.
00:19My grandfather's name was Isaac Babel.
00:22He was an internationally known Russian author.
00:27If you're interested in what it means to witness history, you can't do with a better writer.
00:34Tyrants fear the poet, and people fear the writer, because they tell the truth.
00:40They tell a much deeper truth.
00:43Roar.
00:44Each one's as bad as the next, as strange as the next, hostile, wild.
00:57He was executed in January of 1940.
01:09I am on the search for the grandfather that I never met.
01:27I'm keeping my diary.
01:29It will be an interesting piece of work.
01:33All of these people were ultimately sacrificed for nothing.
01:56And I closed my last uncaked eye so as not to see the world unravel before me.