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>And fate made everybody equal
>Outside the limits of the law
>Son of a kulak or Red commander
>Son of a priest or commissar . . .
>Here classes were all equalized,
>All men were brothers, camp mates all,
>Branded as traitors every one . . .
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>-alexander tvardovsky,
>"By Right of Memory"
Why do we have to go over this ancient territory again? What's the point, really? To feel sensitive and moral and superior? To discredit Cuba? To aid and comfort the unbearable Leo Casey?
Doug