Kammala wannan jumla: A ranar 23 ga Agusta, 1968, Yevtushenko ya aika da sakon waya ga firaministan Soviet Alexei Kosygin yana nuna baƙin ciki game da
mamayewar Czechoslovakia, amma "lokacin da aka zabi Yevtushenko don kujerar waka a Oxford a 1968, Kingsley Amis, Bernard Levin, da kuma masanin tarihin Rasha-Hungary Tibor Szamuely sun jagoranci yakin neman zabe a kansa, suna jayayya cewa ya sa rayuwa ta zama da wuya ga 'yan uwansa marubutan Soviet. "