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Lenin and Trotsky's Success
Raemaekers, Louis, 1919, Chromolithograph
Lenin and Trotsky's Success
Lenin and Trotsky's Success
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Title
Lenin and Trotsky's Success
Description
The poem: "Peace"
"Nation of slaves, of avarice, of greed,
Russ thou hast sold unto the Slavic foe,
And sent by thee two miserable hybrids,
Cringing to fall beneath the boot of steel,
The traitors they, a future curse awaits them,
But at this hour their fate concerns me not.
I mourn Thee, thou foremost of earth's Warriors,
That joys this hour of deep impressioned woes.
Unfeeling Lenin has mutilated Russia
And for an hour's might betrayed her.
But Thou, enraptured, hast cried to him, 'Messiah,
We live, so, therefore, perish our mighty land!'
Contempt to Thee, thou miserable offal!
Thou crucifest by hands of Smalny's scum
The ancient glory of our outraged sires,
With all their insolence, with all their hands accursed,
They could not sink their country for an age
If ye had not, with all your pleas for quiet:
'We must have peace for honour of native land.'
....
Thy madness seeds will come to flower in slavery,
Day of your peace, a mournful day for Russia!
- V. Purishkevitch. Written on the wall of a cell in the Fortress of Peter and Paul, Petrograd, and copied by E. H. C. Loudon, Correspondent and fellow prisoner."
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Raemaekers, Louis
Date
1919
Size
32 x 25.7 cm
Type
Chromolithograph
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
.
The
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
have published a book of his works entitled, 'Louis Raemaekers - with pen and pencil as a weapon'.
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Louis Raemaekers and World War One
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