Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 23 o Akuhata 1968, i tukuna e Yevtushenko he waea ki te Pirimia o te Soviet a Alexei Kosygin e pouri ana mo te
Ko te whakaekenga o Czechoslovakia, engari "i te wa i tohua ai a Yevtushenko mo te tumuaki o te puoro i Oxford i te tau 1968, ko Kingsley Amis, Bernard Levin, me te kaituhi hitori o Ruhia-Hungari a Tibor Szamuely i arahi i te pakanga ki a ia, me te kii kua uaua ia ki nga kaituhi o te Soviet".