Stalin's poetry

[Anonymous No.6638330]

I know there are more, post them if you can find them.

To the Moon

Sail on, as tirelessly as ever,
Above an earth obscured by clouds,
And with your shining glow of silver
Dispel the fog that now abounds.

With languor, bend your lovely neck,
Lean down to earth with tender smile.
Sing lullabies to Mount Kazbek,
Whose glaciers reach for you on high.

But know for certain, he who had
Once been oppressed and cast below,
Can scale the heights of Mount Mtatsminda,
Exalted by undying hope.

Shine on, up in the darkened sky,
Frolic and play with pallid rays,
And, as before, with even light,
Illuminate my fatherland.

I’ll bare my breast to you, extend
My arm in joyous greeting, too.
My spirit trembling, once again
I’ll glimpse before me the bright moon.

Iveria, No. 123 (1895)

[Anonymous No.6638336]

He knocked on strangers’ doors,
Going from house to house,
With an old oaken panduri
And that simple song of his.

But in his song, his song—
Pure as the sun’s own gleam—
Resounded a truth profound,
Resounded a lofty dream.

Hearts that had turned to stone
Were made to beat once more;
In many, he’d rouse a mind
That slumbered in deepest murk.

But instead of the laurels he’d earned,
The people of his land
Fed the outcast poison,
Placing a cup in his hand.

They told him: “Damned one, you must
Drink it, drain the cup dry…
Your song is foreign to us,
We prefer to live in a lie!”

Iveria, no. 218 (1895)

[Anonymous No.6638340]

Morning

The bud has blossomed; now the rose
Touches the tender violet.
The lily, bent above the grass
By gentle breezes, slumbers not.

The lark, signing its chirping hymn,
Soars high above the clouds;
Meanwhile, the nightingale intones
With sweet, mellifluous sounds:

“Break forth in bloom, Iberian land!
Let joy within you reign.
While you must study, little friend,
And please your motherland!”

Iveria, no. 280 (1895)

[Anonymous No.6638341]

>>6638330
The gulags are almost excusable after learning what horrors would be unleashed upon the world had he become a poet

[Anonymous No.6638352]

>>6638341

perhaps it loses something in the translation from his native Georgian language

i'm reading this new biography of him right now

http://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Volume-Paradoxes-Power-1878-1928/dp/1594203792

[Anonymous No.6638364]

>>6638330
>that profile
rare

[Anonymous No.6638374]

>>6638352
Nah I'm joking it was actually better than I expected, I was just trying to make a funny

[Anonymous No.6638396]

>>6638364
>>6638374

he recieved a state scholarship to attend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi_Spiritual_Seminary

where he was an excellent and pious student who earned high marks

but became a marxist hipster agitator by the time he left

[Anonymous No.6638403]

>>6638396
Yeah I know

Funnily enough, young Hilter wanted to become a priest as well

[Anonymous No.6638410]

>>6638330
bretty Based Stalin

[Anonymous No.6638432]

>>6638403
This tells us something of the nature of those who would become priests.

[Anonymous No.6638718]

[Anonymous No.6639351]

>>6638432
I don't know, both were somewhat poor (Stalin at least was pretty poor) and living under aristocracies so maybe the church, along with the army, simply offered the best opportunity of social mobility to the lowly born.

[Anonymous No.6639482]

>>6638330

really bad

[Anonymous No.6639501]

>tfw I've got the same facial structure as Stalin

[Anonymous No.6639514]

To be honest it's better than anything I will ever write.

[H.Q.S.S.G No.6639536]

>>6639482
Not really. It's okay, nothing special but it's not bad. Especially considering this is a translation. The imagery is somewhat boring but it could be a lot worse.

[Anonymous No.6639705]

>>6639501
pic?

[Anonymous No.6639883]

you need to hear it in the original Georgian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an94gROptmk

[Anonymous No.6640034]

Literally why even mention translated poetry

[Anonymous No.6640132]

>>6638403
absolute bullshit. he opposed the church since his earliest days.

[Anonymous No.6640145]

>>6639501
Are you also a manlet with debilitating acne?

[Anonymous No.6640150]

>>6639536

Nah man, he's a hack. Wake up.

Suck my dick Zizek. No seriously, I want you to suck my fat cock nice and slow, with no teeth.

[Anonymous No.6640160]

>>6638330
One can almost imagine him and Hitler moving into an apartment together- jacking each other off over how "classical and pure" each other's art was, and how "those modernist plebes don't even know."

[Anonymous No.6640850]

>>6640160
The difference being that Stalin got published and never wanted to become a professional poet.

[Anonymous No.6640856]

[Anonymous No.6642191]

Was Stalin really so bad if he industrialized Russia, transforming it from a third world country into a world power? And honestly, the famine was mostly due to greedy bourgoise farmers throwing away their own crops and protesting to becoming a part of the state.

He even won WWII, defeating Hitler.

[Anonymous No.6642294]

If Stalin and Hitler were born in this century they would form some kind of mememusic group together.

[twinshia !b2E8KBMQGk No.6644029]

>>6638403
I am not aware this is true.

[Anonymous No.6644222]

>>6642191
I do not know but I hear some stories. To flow mud to Stalin began Khrushchev, in 1953. Khrushchev had personal hostility to Stalin. The son of Khrushchev Leonid fell into captivity to the Germans. They exchanged him. it was explained truth - Leonid Khrushchev collaborated with the Germans. By law Leonid Khrushchev shot it for the treachery. Khrushchev never forgave this to Stalin. Thanks that heard the soviet historical Santa-Barbara.

[Anonymous No.6644234]

>>6640132
>>6644029
He talks about wanting to become a priest before age 14 in Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.6644251]

>>6642191
If Soviet Russia became a world power it was despite Russia not because of him.

His paranoia led him to purge all of his competent military commanders before WW2 when he should have been looking outside not in.

You are a fool if you excuse Stalins sabotage of Russia. Almost all modern communists revile him.

[Anonymous No.6644324]

>>6640160
Stalin BTFO'ing hitler since always

[Anonymous No.6644381]

>>6644251
*despite Stalin

[G 0 D B L 3 ß !zR/LhJxu0Q No.6646595]

>>6639351
Hitler was poor as shit, especially considering the early death of his father (who was a lowly civil servant), which was followed by his mother's death not too long after

[G 0 D B L 3 ß !zR/LhJxu0Q No.6646602]

>>6642191
>>6644222
>being even slightly humanistic (claiming the defeat of the Nazis was good, for example)
>seriously doubting the oppressive nature of Stalinism
Ha, ha. Oh, wow.

[Anonymous No.6647067]

>>6646602
Majorities of the kings has oppressive nature.Stalin began to rule into 1922. For examples: Austro-Hungarian monarchist empire was decomposed into 1918. Great Japanese monarhist Empire existed until 1947.

[Anonymous No.6647073]

>>6646602
Ok you certainly don't need to be a humanist in any sense of the word to dislike nazis.