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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Age: 83 †
Born: 1933
Born: July 18
Died: 2017
Died: April 1
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