Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 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 rayuwar 'yan uwansa marubutan Soviet ta zama mai wahala".