Lenin and Trotsky's Success

Category

Library Item

Item no

33487

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."

Artist / maker

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.