Pavel Grekov, a fictional South African translator and studier of these objects, mails a request to the Russian government for one of them in a story by Ivan Vladislavić. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects. The first line of a poem notes how these objects are absent from the title ravine, described as a “drop sheer as a crude gravestone.”
ANSWER: monuments [or pamyatniki; accept monuments to Vladimir Lenin; accept statues or busts; accept “Propaganda by Monuments”]
[10e] Yevgeny Yevtushenko's “Babi Yar” was published during this decade, which names countercultural literary movements in both Russian and Afrikaans. Bob Dylan principally influenced the hippie subculture in this decade.
ANSWER: the 1960s [accept Sixtiers or Sestigers]
[10m] In the 1960s, dissident Soviet poets read their works in a square then named for its monument to this poet of “A Cloud in Trousers.” This Russian Futurist also wrote the play The Bedbug.
ANSWER: Vladimir Mayakovsky [or Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky; accept Mayakovsky Square]
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