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Epigram: Molotov Cheers Himself Up
We Bolsheviks ushered the Czar and his wife right out;
then mudered them, with their bleeding son and lovely daughters.
Should we tremble, or entertain even a doubt
at the rants of the Austrain housepainter, that lout,
and his shrill threat---a Gotterdammerung of slaughters?
An idiot he is, for who else would choose,
for his foreign minister, a traveling salesman who sold booze?
with a cocktail?
with a cocktail?
Good point. I read,
Good point. I read, recently, that Molotov very much disliked having an incindiary device named for him. One wonders if, in 39, Von Ribbentrop, the former champaign salesman turned foreign minister of the Thrd Riech, might have inquired about that. I had not thought of that before.
Thanks for reading, and the comment.
Starward