“Bosnia Tune“ by Joseph Brodsky (poetry reading)

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing“ - a quotation usually attributed to Edmund Burke who did say something very similar. Similar words are also used in the Russian film adaptation of “War and Peace“ by Leo Tolstoy. There are several versions of this poem. About 30,000 people went missing in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war - this poem was written in 1992. Brodsky was an American of the Russian-Jewish origin. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 19