The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155349   Message #4140078
Posted By: Stringsinger
24-Apr-22 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Russian Song (I'm Lenin, I'm Trotsky)
Subject: RE: Origins: Russian Song (I'm Lenin, I'm Trotsky)
Then there's the old New York street rhymes probably coming from summer camps:
"When I grow to old to fight, I'll become a Trotskyite, and when I grow to old to see, a Forwards reader I will be." (To read Forwards you'd have to read backwards)

Trotsky was not a Bolshie, Stalin bumped him off.

The return of McCarthyism is an unwelcome guest. I don't like my favorite Russian composer
Rachmaninov to be censored.