The Russian poet Lev Rubinstein, a key figure of the Soviet underground literary scene who later protested against President Vladimir Putin, has died days after being hit by a car, his daughter said.
Totally an accident, of course.
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The Russian poet Lev Rubinstein, a key figure of the Soviet underground literary scene who later protested against President Vladimir Putin, has died days after being hit by a car, his daughter said.
Rubinstein is considered as one of the founders of the Russian conceptualist movement, a literary “avant-garde” that mocked the official doctrine of socialist realism in the 1970s-80s.
“My dad, Lev Rubinstein, died today,” his daughter Maria wrote on a LiveJournal blog picked up by Russian media.
The poet had created his own genre, between poetry and theatre, by writing short sentences on perforated cards and reading the “note-card poems” on stage.
Rubinstein was openly hostile to Putin’s government and protested regularly against the Kremlin’s intensifying repression and human rights violations.
After Putin launched his full-scale assault on Ukraine, Rubinstein, along with other renowned writers, signed an open letter denouncing a “criminal war” and the Kremlin’s “lies”.
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Yet another innocent victim of the Putin regime.
Just think how many young Russian poets have been sent off to Ukraine to die.
I pity them for not managing to dodge the draft. Or for believing in the Kremlin propaganda and willingly going to be slaughtered.
Putin is willing to sacrifice Russia’s future for his own current glory.
And here poor Gregor came to the party with a window. Windows are so last month! Silly Gregor!
