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Bertolt Brecht

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German playwright and poet who wrote voluminously about Lenin, including 'The Hole in Ilyich's Boots' and 'Cantata on the Day of Lenin's Death.'

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"Moving across the Atlantic, we come to Germany, where Bertolt Brecht wrote voluminously about 'a man with the name Ulyanov called Lenin/Living in exile in Zuerich/Socialist and agitator, a destructive element' who 'like a bacterium/Could decompose the shapeless body of our eastern enemy.' My favorit"
Happy May Day fam · u/the-woman-respecter · ↑72 · 2023-05-01
"Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?"
A Worker Reads History - Bertolt Brecht · u/reviewer_no_2 · ↑27 · 2023-05-01
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