Babii Iar - Anatolii Kuznetsov

This book is the full author's version of the famous documentary novel "Babi Yar" about the destruction of the Jewish population of Kiev in the autumn of 1941. Anatoly Kuznetsov, then a teenager, himself witnessed the shootings of Kiev Jews, communicated a lot with people who survived the disaster, collected memories of other contemporaries and eyewitnesses. His novel was first published in the magazine "Youth" in 1966, and even then, despite numerous and crude censorship cuts, produced the effect of a bomb exploded - so before Kuznetsov about the Holocaust did not dare to write no one. However, the path of the true story of Babi Yar to the reader was long and difficult. In 1969, Anatoly Kuznetsov secretly took the full version of the novel to England, where he asked for political asylum. A year later "Babi Yar" was published in the West in the author's edition, but the Russian reader was able to get acquainted with the text without banknotes only after perestroika.