Poet-Frontliners
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Poet-Fronliners (Russian: Поэты-фронтовики, lit: Poet-Frontliners, also known as the War Generation and Front Poets) is a name applied to the young Russian poets whose youth was spent fighting in World War II and whose best poems reflect upon wartime experiences.[1][2] Frontliners also included painters and cinematographers.[3] The year 1924 is regarded as the beginning of the "Poet-Frontliners" generation, as many of the poets within this movement were students and young adults at the beginning of World War II.[4] However, others regard the "Front-Line poets" as being those around in their early 20s at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.[5]