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Of course the Revolution is in danger

of subtle sabotage and rank subversion:

our friends may be as false as any stranger.

Nothing but a full soaking, an immersion,

in our foes' blood will purify the land,

and then, unchallenged, our Party will stand

forever like a tall, eternal tower.

a paragon of all the Soviet power.

Be sure you make a very thorough search

for counter-revolutionaries sent

among us by the vast Orthodox Church:

they may lurk in the poorest peasants' huts,

who set asides their vestments and their struts

to follow plans, cunning and serpentine.

Priests, bishops, deacons and misled believers

and all the fools who harbor such deceivers

(and you know just exactly who I mean).

The Terror we bring to them must be Red;

it must crush them with a most ghastly dread;

it must be felt, not merely heard or said;

more monstrous than the worst tales you have read,

relentless vengeance that could chill, with fear,

the man from whom I learned most---Robespierre! 

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