Original sentence: " After a forced confession, Babel was tried, found guilty, and, on January 27, 1940, shot in Butyrka prison.At the first congress of the Union of Soviet Writers (1934), Babel noted that he was becoming "the master of a new literary genre, the genre of silence.Babel told his wife "Please see our girl grows up happy.Back in Odessa Babel started to write a series of short stories set in the Odessan ghetto of Moldavanka where he was born, describing the life of the Jewish underworld before and after the 1917 October Revolution.During the Stalinist campaign against "Formalism" in the art, Babel was criticized for  alleged "Esthetism" and low productivity.His widow, Antonina Pirozhkova (), did not know about his fate for 15 years
Edited sentence: After a forced confession, Babel was tried, found guilty, and, on January 27, 1940, shot in Butyrka prison.At the first congress of the Soviet Writers' Union (1934), Babel noted that he was becoming "the master of a new literary genre, the genre of silence.Babel told his wife "Please see our girl grows up happy" (Montefiore Stalin 287).Back in Odessa Babel started to write a series of short stories set in the Odessan ghetto of Moldavanka where he was born, describing the life of the Jewish underworld before and after the October Revolution.During the stalinist campaign against "formalism" in the art, Babel was criticized for  alleged "esthetism" and low productivity.His widow, Antonina Pirozhkova (Антонина Пирожкова), did not know about his fate for 15 years