Lev Kopelev
Lev Zalmanovich (Zinovyevich) Kopelev (Russian: Лев Залма́нович (Зино́вьевич) Ко́пелев, German: Lew Sinowjewitsch Kopelew, 9 April 1912 – 18 June 1997) was a Soviet author and dissident. == Early life == Kopelev was born in Kyiv, then Russian Empire, to a middle-class Jewish family.