1923. Grigory Baklanov was born

90 years ago, September 11, 1923, the writer and editor -in -chief of the Banner magazine Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov (Friedman), who played a prominent role in the formation of publicity in the era of perestroika, was born.

In September 2008, a year before his death, Baklanov said in an interview on the Culture television channel: “Of all human affairs that I know (neither in concentration camps, nor in the ghetto I have not had to be), war - the most terrible and inhuman business. But because life and death are brought closer here, like a shot and a gap of a shell, you see a lot and feel aggravated. You may not think that it is given to you for the last time, the feeling is in you, and more than once at the front, as if insight, I was amazed at the beauty of the world. ”