"You know, strange and terrible things are happening now, people are disappearing; I fear the walls have ears"

[Swede]

A chance meeting in March 1934 in Moscow on Tverskoy Boulevard between Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, who recited to his friend the now-famous poem known as the “Stalin Epigram.”
Mandelstam never wrote down the poem but committed it to memory, the future author of Doctor Zhivago replied to his friend:

“I heard nothing, you recited nothing. You know, strange and terrible things are happening now, people are disappearing; I fear the walls have ears, and perhaps even the paving-stones can hear and speak. Let us be clear: I heard nothing.”

It can't happen here. Right?

https://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2025/05/different-faces-formats-all-same.html?m=1