"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

must the Soviet Union detain an author who is not allowed to publish his
work? Is the intention to destroy him?" In 1939, he had become desperate
and wrote the play "Batum" - an apology (rather a smothered scream) and
a tribute to the young revolutionary Stalin. This did him no good. He
lacked the proper background! In his brilliant novel "The Master and
Margarita", published only in 1966, he held cowardice as the deadliest sin.
According to the myth, Trotsky also held liberal or avantgarde views on
literature. It was even claimed that he was a very competent literary critic.
In 1923, Trotsky published his collected articles on literature, along with
his decisions, approved by the Party, regarding censorship. The title of this
awful book is "Literature and Revolution" (published in English in 1991).
According to this book, Trotsky's aim was to transform literature into a
weapon of the revolution. He wrote that all ideas dangerous to
Communism must be purged. He believed in using the forms of
"dangerous" art, however, and thereby propagating the 'wholesome'
Communist content. It is hard to imagine any idea more vile than this. This
was the birth of propaganda art. The proletarian culture (which really
means cultureless-ness) was enforced. Trotsky did not hide this fact. He
stressed that the workers had no time left to take part in cultural life, since
they had to fight for the revolution. The short pauses between the battles
were not enough. He comforted them with a possible chance of enjoying
these other values 50 years later, when the revolution was victorious. Only
then could they devote themselves to proletarian culture, but until then the
workers were first and foremost soldiers of the revolution.
The Murder of Sergei Yesenin
As if all this was not enough, Trotsky also had Russia's most prominent
poet, Sergei Yesenin, murdered. Official cause of death: suicide. Despite
the fact that his head had been crushed so that brain tissue had leaked out,
Yesenin had still been able to hang himself, according to the death
certificate of the Jewish professor Alexander Gilyarevsky.
The principal reason for the murder was Yesenin's new poem, "Land of
Crooks" in which he surprisingly describes a Jewish tyrant - Leibman-
Chekistov. All his acquaintances recognised Bronstein-Trotsky by the
description. Yesenin welcomed the "revolution" at the beginning but soon
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