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  1. (2/2) "For some reason, I thought that Engels himself and his friend Marx should appear at the end of the operetta and sing a duet. We never wrote the operetta, though, but the duet remained. Here it is: facebook.com/naumsagalovsky/po"
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    I won't possibly translate the whole text of that song from Russian, but the premise itself is too spectacularly hilarious not to share it.

    #slavistic #literature #russian #soviet #emigre #ruslit #samizdat

  2. (1/2) Naum Sagalovsky: "Sergei Dovlatov once suggested to me a completely ridiculous idea - to write an operetta based on Friedrich Engels' book "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State". I found the idea interesting and started writing texts — "Couplets of a Pithecanthropus", "Monkey Chorus", "Feudal Tango" etc".

    #slavistic #literature #russian #soviet #emigre #ruslit #samizdat