LINK: Norm notes this is the 63rd anniversary of Babi Yar, which he commemorates by posting Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem about it, the last lines of which resonate with me as powerfully as any political idea I have in my head (a translation from my YY book, which I think is better, though I don't know Russian--but it was done by YY himself, so I hope I can trust him):
"Nothing in me shall ever forget!
The "Internationale," let it thunder
when the last anti-Semite on earth
is buried forever.
In my blood there is no Jewish blood,
but in their callous rage, all anti-Semites
must hate me now as a Jew.
For that reason
I am a true Russian!"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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