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...addition to Ehrenburg (a venerable intellectual with remarkable resiliency and staying power) the chief symbol in the West of dissonance in Soviet literature is the young poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko...
Without trying to say too much on too little evidence, it seems clear that Yevtushenko is basically a hireling of the Soviet government, bent on emulating the toadying tactics of Ehrenburg. At the World Youth Festival in Helsinki, where he paraded around in loud Italian silk shirts, Yevtushenko became so incensed at the anti-Communist demonstrations he composed a poem on the spot denouncing the "pimple-faced, gum chewing" students. "If I had not been a Communist before, I would have become one tonight," he said...
There is no denying both Ehrenburg and Yevtushenko have quarrels with the Soviet regime. But they value survival, and allow their opposition to creep into their work only by implication, and only occasionally...
...golden boys sometimes overstep the bounds, and when they do the image of dissent is suddenly revealed for what it is. Last week Khrushchev denounced the elderly Ehrenburg for pleading for co-existence between socialist realism and Western art forms. "Whoever preaches the idea of peaceful coexistence of ideologies slides down to the positions of anticommunism" Krushchev declared, and added that Ehrenburg had committed a "gross ideological error...
...Premier also attacked Yevtushenko for his support of Ehrenburg and said that perhaps the young poet, in his pose as an "angry young man," was serving the purposes of "the enemies of our cause...