Samad Vurgun's "Ananın öyüdü" (Mother's Farewell Speech) poem received the highest mark in the contest of the best antiwar poem in the USA, in 1943. The poem was chosen as one of the 20 best poems of the world literature of war theme in New York and spread among soldiers. In the same year "House of Intellectuals named after Fuzülî" for holding events and meetings with fighting soldiers was opened with his initiative in Baku.
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