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Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill - XXXIX, Part One
by T. Wignesan → (All Poetry by T. Wignesan)
Sunday, February 23, 2020    Rated "G" by the Author.
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To the GLORY of the "secret services" 's POISON...


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Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill - XXXIX, Part One

NOTE: Born in 1868, Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, better known as MAXIM GORKY and hailed as the chief proponent of Soviet literature, the veritable champion of the proletariat and the downtrodden masses, and who counted among his foremost friends LENIN, STALIN and TROTSKY, was poisoned with camphor by his doctor Levin at the instigation of Yagoda, the former Chief of Secret Police in 1936. His father passed away when he was five, and his paternal grandfather turned him out of the family home after subjecting him to merciless thrashings which had him bed-ridden for weeks at a time. He was condemned to roam the streets and wilds for a living right from his teens and his attempted suicide ruined his own lungs for life. His experiences, unlike those of the cosetted and untrammeled bourgeois Tolstoy's (whose wife besides slaved as his literary amanuensis: no resemblance to Patricia and V. S. Naipaul though), fed his immensely popular stories, novels, plays, articles and his autobiographical trilogy, culled from living in Russia (Nizhny, Novgorod), Georgia (Tiflis), Italy (Sorrentino, Capri) and the USA (New York).


For Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, the reputed “Father of
Soviet Literature”

Now the Cossack rode roughshod
.....From Novgorod to Vladivostock
Trans-Siberian rocked the railroad
.....-40° suckled by deepfreeze livestock
Tartar’s shuddered locks splayed on docks
.....On Syrian shores an Assad naval sword

..........Levin commits sin
.............in Stalin’s Krêmlin
..........Yagoda in Tsarist skin
.............makes Lenin turn Putin

Who executed the high Bolshoi entrechat
.....on the battleship Potemkin
Was it Kerensky or the scélerat
.....or Rasputin under Romanov skin
Unstrip the balalaika chez the Peshkov
.....to let grandma kitchen tales unfold

..........Levin commits sin
.............in Stalin’s Krêmlin
..........Yagoda in Tsarist skin
.............makes Putin turn Lenin

Go now Ivanko! Cut hermit Miron’s head off
.....and his prayer for mankind eternally cold
Ivan the Terrible’ll make Daech listen to Lavrov
.....no camphor poison could ever be Soviet sold
Did Yagoda tell Saudi Prince Al-Qaïda off
.....Or a Putin not bar lethal secret tatami hold

..........Levin commits sin
............in Stalin’s Krêmlin
..........Yagoda in Tsarist skin
............makes Lenin turn Putin

No petty Levin plied the Volga or bakery
.....Escaped the pogroms under Stalin enmity
The long arm of rivalry split Trotsky
.....skull in exiled lost Méjico City
Drained the peoples’ lungs of victory
.....In the proletariat Chief Maxim Gorky!

..........Levin commits sin
.............in Stalin’s Krêmlin
..........Yagoda in Tsarist skin
.............makes Putin turn Lenin

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2016
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2016

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 28, 2020
Quite a romp through Soviet history with a few other regimes thrown in. Thanks to Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, a very literary piece.

Ron


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