The Great Patriotic War claimed the lives of millions of innocent people. It became the basis of the plot of many tales and poems, telling about what a terrible price the victory over fascism went to the Soviet Union.
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During the war and the postwar years, many poets addressed the theme of war, among them were Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Twardovsky, Konstantin Simonov and many others. Information about which particular poems in their work are devoted to the Great Patriotic War can be found in the official biographies of poets.
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There are a large number of collections of poetry devoted to wartime. You can buy them at second-hand bookstores at fairly reasonable prices, since books on this topic are rarely of interest to the modern reader. On average, one such collection costs about 150 rubles.
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If you feel sorry for your own money, go to the nearest library. To get a book with poems about the Great Patriotic War, you need to have your own subscription. An identity document (passport) may be required from you in the library, in addition, you will have to pay for a library ticket (about 30 rubles).
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Poems of interest to you can be found on the Internet, for this you need to visit one of the virtual libraries, for example, the library of Maxim Moshkov, located at Lib.ru. It is one of the most comprehensive collections of Russian-language Internet literature. In addition, in it you can find poems about the war, written not only by well-known poets, but also those whose were created by young talents who have not yet received recognition.
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In addition, there are a large number of resources on the Internet devoted to the Great Patriotic War, where you can find collections of poems about it. One of such portals is Russlav.ru, where not only poems are published, but also articles by historians and modern journalists about the Second World War, and you can also find materials relating to the largest battles of that period.
