' “IT IS THE WRITER’S duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader’s civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one’s eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.” #VasilyGrossman, who wrote these words in September 1944 as a Soviet war correspondent, clearly held himself to a high moral standard, which is never easy for anyone, and certainly not for a writer living under Stalin.'
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![All Humanity Now Stands on the Edge of the Abyss
Vasily Grossman’s fearless and compelling war journalism demonstrates his courage and integrity as a writer and a man.
By Eric Vanderwall July 10, 2026
[tags] History, Memoir & Essay
image: cover of new collection of war correspondence by Vasily Grossman, "From the Front Line: Stalingrad–Treblinka–Berlin, 1941–45 by Vasily Grossman"](/proxy/post_attachment/1123122/ac785c3a3e.png "All Humanity Now Stands on the Edge of the Abyss
Vasily Grossman’s fearless and compelling war journalism demonstrates his courage and integrity as a writer and a man.
By Eric Vanderwall July 10, 2026
[tags] History, Memoir & Essay
image: cover of new collection of war correspondence by Vasily Grossman, \"From the Front Line: Stalingrad–Treblinka–Berlin, 1941–45 by Vasily Grossman\"")