Stalin poetry thread

[l'Enfermé]

Can we have a Stalin poetry thread? I don't mean poetry written by Stalin(yes, he was a poet, too, when he wasn't busy eating babies and killing 19 billion people!), but poetry written about Stalin.

For example, from Pravda, August 1936:
"O Great Stalin, O leader of the Peoples,
Thou who didst give birth to man,
Thou who didst make fertile the earth,
Thou who dost rejuvenate the Centuries,
Thou who givest blossom to the Spring,
Thou who movest the chords of harmony,
Thou splendour of my Spring, O Thou,
Sun reflected in a million hearts”

[Peoples' War]

No.

[Positivist]

I want to hear some of Stalin's poems.

[Comrade Samuel]

This is hands down the greatest thread of all time!

[Robespierres Neck]

Do you know who wrote that?

[Comrade Samuel]

Do you know who wrote that?

OP says it was Stalin himself (I cannot confirm or denie this but I do have serious doubts about that) do you know who did it?

[Robespierres Neck]

Off topic, but I do have poetry from Adrian Panuescu, Nicolae Ceausescu's favorite 'court poet'. Check it out.
http://www.constantinroman.com/pages/cul_trans_12.html

[Robespierres Neck]

OP says it was Stalin himself (I cannot confirm or denie this but I do have serious doubts about that) do you know who did it?

I don't. He didn't say Stalin wrote it either, it was referenced as a poem written for Stalin.

[Comrade Samuel]

I don't. He didn't say Stalin wrote it either, it was referenced as a poem written for Stalin.

Your right, my mistake carry on.

[eyeheartlenin]

My immediate reaction to this thread is that it is interesting that the subject of poetry about Stalin is put in "opposing ideologies." I have been grinning ever since I saw that :) and I have to say that I have serious doubts about the authenticity of the "poem" (which actually sounds like the beginning of a prayer) quoted by the original poster. Interestingly, as is widely known, the young Stalin spent some time in a seminary, and Stalin's speech, at Lenin's burial, I believe, sounded like a liturgical composition, according to historians.

In fact, there actually was a lot of embarrassing poetry written during Stalin's lifetime, some of which was quoted in the 1950's, in anti-communist publications in the US, like Reader's Digest. The only thing I remember reading specifically is that some Soviet poet went so far as to say that the letter "a" should be grateful for having a place in Stain's name.

Another embarrassing fact from the Stalin era is that Stalin was once moved, late in life, I believe, to write an article on linguistics (Solzhenitsyn devotes a few pages to that in one of his novels, maybe The First Circle), and when I was a grad student in Russian language, I accidentally came across a Soviet journal, from the Stalin era, where real linguistics experts published pieces extravagantly praising Stalin's "contribution" to their specialty, so praising the vozhd (I think that's Russian for "leader") was not limited to poetry. Not at all. In an autobiography, the real poet Yevtushenko recalls that an early article he wrote about Soviet sports was not published because it failed to mention Stalin.

[Liberty]

I don't know any poems, but how about a quote?

Here is a quote, by Stalin, in a 1939 interview.

Nancy Astor: "When are you going to stop slaughtering Russians?"
Stalin: "When it is no longer necessary."


Stalin said it best. You Commies will do whatever crimes are 'necessary' simply to satisfy your political objectives.
Stalin was trying to create a Communist Utopia, with no government, by holding mass government-sponsored killings of people. Oh how ironic!

I can't believe how so many people still worship this man, when even he admits how evil he is.

[Robespierres Neck]

Theun de Vries

1
1879 – Stalin – 1949

Holland’s mills, in sombre weighty movement
cast their view upon a low
to carry the grey skies
of the old and passing year.

From the land of reeds and friendly streams
rises the west wind, like a strong young man,
rising up under his own weight,
and conquering both sea and land.

Speak now, words, quietly and charged
with all the power of this wind-swept land
greet the greatest of all comrades
Sing for him this melody of Holland

We know you: to us you are no stranger,
but the one imbued with all the patience
with which the mills, in their grey meadows
are filled, while milling eternally.

We know you for you have the firm
unassailable strength of basalt
that breaks the storm in fierce
with which it assaults Holland’s garden.

We know you, for you are the skipper
with the hard and dark-brown hand
who guides the clipper along marsh and mud-flat
steadily to the safety of the land.

We know you for you have been created
from the same dark clay as we
in which all great images lie asleep
of a people, undivided and free.

With head raised above everyone
but with feet on motherlands’ ground
that supports the lives of thousands
unrestricted and yet in secret bound.

It is from the people that you took your courage
from the people the dream, that keeps them alive
from the people all of the patient desire
from the people the will, that constructs and creates

’Leaders go, but the people live forever’ –
But in the heart of the new order it is
indelibly inscribed:
Stalin, – leader, brother, comrade!

II
Farewell
Moscow, March 9, 1953

In the mournful silence of the ancient square
Old guards waited, for the final time, comrades, young and old
Fathers held their children higher when the hearse came near
Through the dark throngs of the masses, it glowed like a morning flame
But the proud red flag with which people, happily singing
Had greeted him in bygone years on this same square
Now covered this friend and father, laying in his deepest sleep
As the sombre tones of mournful music sounded.
On the shoulders of his nearest he was carried one more time
He, who taught them liberation and to live in freedom
He, Lenin’s pupil and comrade through the difficult years
Was taken again to Lenin’s side in the comradeship of death
Cannons boomed lonely, all work and labour ceased
To Red Square they flocked likes doves to a dovecot
The thoughts of millions, their vows filled the air
For the dead hero, who now rests from his superhuman work
He will rest, he will sleep, but what he created holds power and breathes
Among the people it lives, it stirs them to heroic acts
Until no hiding place can be found where slavery can thrive
Until the brotherhood of people can celebrate Stalin’s name in peace

[Positivist]

I don't know any poems, but how about a quote?

Here is a quote, by Stalin, in a 1939 interview.

Nancy Astor: "When are you going to stop slaughtering Russians?"
Stalin: "When it is no longer necessary."


Stalin said it best. You Commies will do whatever crimes are 'necessary' simply to satisfy your political objectives.
Stalin was trying to create a Communist Utopia, with no government, by holding mass government-sponsored killings of people. Oh how ironic!

I can't believe how so many people still worship this man, when even he admits how evil he is.

Source for the quote?

[crazyirish93]

I don't know any poems, but how about a quote?

Here is a quote, by Stalin, in a 1939 interview.

Nancy Astor: "When are you going to stop slaughtering Russians?"
Stalin: "When it is no longer necessary."


Stalin said it best. You Commies will do whatever crimes are 'necessary' simply to satisfy your political objectives.
Stalin was trying to create a Communist Utopia, with no government, by holding mass government-sponsored killings of people. Oh how ironic!

I can't believe how so many people still worship this man, when even he admits how evil he is.I would love to see a link to the source of that quote. also a quick search show of this nancy astor shows up that show was a anti-catholic and possibly a Nazi sympathizer she sound like a lovely person.... anyway i wont derail the thread further.

[RedHammer]

I'm going to make my own. A haiku.

Stalin, What A Lad
Defender of Russia, Wow
Also, A Moustache

:cool:

[Robespierres Neck]

I'm going to make my own. A haiku.

Stalin, What A Lad
Defender of Russia, Wow
Also, A Moustache

:cool:

Stickin' with the 5-7-5 routine. Good job.

[Pricey]

With apologies

Oh Stalin,
quit stallin,
cos I am fallin,
for you