Ilya Ehrenburg

Famous Soviet journalist, writer and international peace fighterEhrenburg, was born on January 14, 1894 in Kiev, Ukraine to a well-off Jewish family. His father was an engineer. When Erenburg was a student in Moscow No. 1 Middle School, influenced by the Russian Revolution in 1905, he joined the Bolshevik faction of the Social Democratic Labor Party. He was arrested by the tsarist government in 1908. After being released from prison, he went into exile in Paris, separated from the party organization and engaged in literary and artistic activities. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Erenburg was hired as a battlefield reporter for Moscow's Russian Morning Post and Petrograd's Market News in Paris. After the October Revolution, he returned to China to serve in the Soviet government. Soon after, he spent a long time abroad as a newspaper reporter in the Soviet Union.

In 1931, he traveled around Spain, Germany, France and other European countries. Hardly sensing the rise of fascism in the major capitalist countries of Europe, which is plagued by economic crises everywhere, he pointed out: "Fascism is beginning to rise, and a storm is coming. After that, he traveled around European countries as an anti-fascist social activist.

Ehrenburg's greatest achievement is that as a journalist, starting from the Soviet Union's Anti-Fascist Patriotic War, he has always fought with the Red Army on the front line, risking his life, day and night in the battle, shelter-type bomb shelters to interview and write news, almost every day published the kind of fighting spirit of papers and communications description, later collected into the book "War", three thick volumes. On the one hand, he engaged in literary creation, writing three famous novels: "The Fall of Paris", "The Tempest" and "The Great Wave", the first two of which won the Stalin Prize. On the other hand, he actively engaged in the anti-fascist international peace cause, actively participated in various activities to defend world peace, and was elected as the vice chairperson of the World Peace Council.

Ehrenberg died in 1927. In his later years, he wrote more than 2 million words of "People, Years, Life", which was very complex, including almost the whole world in half a century. The book's evaluation of many important social events, life phenomena and historical figures is often one-sided, and some are very wrong.