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According to Ivinskaya, " After this, in conversation with people he scarcely knew, he always referred to Stalin as a ' murderer.

' Talking with people in the offices of literary periodicals, he often asked: ' When will there be an end to this freedom for lackies who happily walk over corpses to further their own interests?

' He spent a good deal of time with Akhmatova -- who in those years was given a very wide berth by most of the people who knew her.

He worked intensively on the second part of Doctor Zhivago.