Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society. - Vasily Grossman

You know what enormous harm we have been dealt by the publication of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Everybody who has read your book, everybody who has seen the reviews are convinced that the potential harm from your “Life and Fate” would be far more dangerous than that of Doctor Zhivago.

No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.

It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.