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How does Ratsushinskaya depict her suffering? Discuss with reference to two poems. Irina Ratsushinkaya was born in Ukrainian on the 4th March 1954. She grew up in Soviet Russia and from an early age rebelled against the strict regime unable to adopt to lack of freedom. In Russia freedom of speech was also forbidden, as there was a great threat to the Russian Soviet if people started expressing political heresies. This was hard for Ratushinskaya as she was a poet, influenced by the fact that she loved literature and art. However, she believed in having the right to speak her own mind and her poetry played a big part in her life. Ratushinskaya was eventually arrested for writing poetry, as she still persisted in fighting the strict regime. In the Soviet hard labour camp where she was imprisoned Ratsushinskaya suffered beatings, force-feeding and solitary confinement in brutal freezing conditions and became so gravely...

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