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Ivinskaya's daughter Irina circulated typed copies of the novel in Samizdat.
Although no Soviet critics had read the banned novel, Doctor Zhivago was pilloried in the State-owned press.
Similar attacks led to a humorous Russian saying, " I haven't read Pasternak, but I condemn him ".
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