Just Some Foreign Agitator's Words In, Say, 1920 Or So

"Everyone, these days (apparently), forgets

"that all power was to devolve upon the people's Soviets.

"But any observant tourist soon learns very well:  when in

"Russia, one follows---to the letter!---the orders of 'Comrade' Lenin.

"He happens to be out of town. right now, doing 'the will of the people'

"(immobilized and gasping, like fish caught in Lenin's nets):

"today, he says, 'their will' is to topple another Orthodox Church's steeple.

"Then Lenin will order transformative work (with him, the same old story):

"he will turn that sacred building to a storage depot, or public lavatory."


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