[lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds"

socialismorbarbarism socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 00:15:26 PDT 2012


According to Wikipedia, Moscow went halvsies with Chicago on Big Bill's ashes:

"Death

On May 18, 1928, Haywood died in a Moscow hospital from a stroke brought on by alcoholism and diabetes.[41][42] Half of his ashes were buried in the Kremlin wall; an urn containing the other half of his ashes was sent to Chicago and buried near the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument.[6]"

This fun fact is sourced to here

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/HAY_ACCT.HTM

which is written by a UM-KC professor, Doug Linder, who got it from who-knows-where.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:37 AM, andie_nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Haywood and Emma Goldman were among several thousand real and alleged radicals illegally deported to Russia during the Red Scare of 1917-18. They didn't like it much. Goldman, anyway, had come from Russia a long time before. Haywood had no connection to it at all.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 5, 2012, at 1:27 AM, socialismorbarbarism <socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Reed is buried by the Kremlin. It's true, I even saw the stone with
>> his name on it (Cyrillic lettering, of course) some years back. If I
>> remember correctly he shared a gravestone with Inessa Armand, and
>> someone else.
>>
>> He's not the only American, either. Big Bill Haywood (transliterated
>> something like "Vilyam Gejvut") is buried in the wall, or at least a
>> plate with his name on it is on the wall. I saw that one, too.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:17 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> I vaguely remember he was buried in Red Square.
>>>
>>> The only Yank, according to legend. (Or the movie?)
>>>
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