As Yevtushenko pointed out. for all their talk of "the union of the Russian people" and "the brotherhood of man." the Soviets compounded the acts of the Nazis by denying peoplehood to the Jews of Babl Yar. even In death. The erection of a proper monument at Babi Yar. so recently accomplished. speaks volumes about the moral redemption of the Soviet people. and especially. the people of the Ukraine. The marker at Babi Yar renounces not only Nazi racism. and its Ukrainian collaborators. but five decades of Indecent acts that followed: the hounding of Yevtushenko. the plans to build a sports stadium on the site of the ravine. the reemergence of nationalist antiSemitism. as exemplified by Trofim Kitchkos notorious Judaism without embellishment. the harassment of Jews who tried to live as Jews. or emigrate. the transparently antiSemitic depiction of Israel and Zionism. and the vile monument erected by the Communists In 1976. that made no mention of the Jews. When we recall Babl Yar. we chart a path for the future. Remembrance Is Inseparable from responsibility.
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