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#TIL UK comedian Alexei Sayle was named after Soviet writer Maxim Gorky (real name Aleksei Peshkov), and that Gorky Park in Moscow was also named after Maxim Gorky. And reminded that Alexei Sayle acted in the film Gorky Park!
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"I can't listen to music too often. It affects my nerves." Did Lenin really say this? And if so, did he really mean it?
https://youtu.be/aRVXj5JcT3w
#lenin #russianrevolution #beethoven #appassionata #music #history #bolshevik #maximgorky -
The "literary" Bolsheviks, in the circle of Maxim Gorky, are trying very hard. But in front of them I am sometimes lost. I don't believe somehow that they consciously longed for blind bloodshed, that they really didn't realise what they were saying.
#ZinaidaGippius 18 June 1917