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

grew disillusioned with it and managed to perceive the dark forces at work
behind the political spectacle. That was why he wrote his revelatory poem
in which he described how American businessmen took power in Russia
with the help of political gangsters who became Soviet prospectors
speculating in Marxism. He called the new power-mongers parasites and
actually said that the Soviet republic was a bluff (this word was
romanised!). He also described Trotsky's burning hatred of the Russian
culture.
Sergei Yesenin had declaimed passages from this poem to many of his
acquaintances. Trotsky was informed about the content of the poem and
was unable to forgive this.
Yesenin's friend Alexei Ganin, who was also a poet, was arrested in
March 1925. He was charged with the libel of comrade Leon Trotsky,
sentenced to death and executed. He had, together with the other well-
known poets Peter Oreshin, Sergei Klychkov and Yesenin, proclaimed
officially that in Russia exclusively the Jews held power. These four had
spoken loudly of the injustices of the Communist Jews against Russia in a
bar at the end of 1923, according to a secret police report.
Disposing of Yesenin was not so easy, however. He was already world
famous. He had spent the years 1922-23 in several European countries and
the United States of America, together with his American wife, Isadora
Duncan, who was a ballet dancer. As early as the 20th of February 1924,
Judge Kommissarov in Moscow had decided to arrest Yesenin for anti-
Semitic statements. Yesenin learnt about this and went underground.
In the beginning of September 1924, Yesenin was hiding in Baku when
the GPU man Yakov Blumkin suddenly turned up at Yesenin's hotel and
threatened him with a revolver and described what awaited such as him in
the GPU cellar in Moscow. Yesenin escaped to Tiflis (Tbilisi) in Georgia,
where he acquired a revolver, upon which he returned to Baku.
On the 6th of September 1925, Yesenin took a train back to Moscow
together with Sofia Tolstaya. Two Jews - A. Rog and Levit - suddenly
turned up and provoked Yesenin to make statements critical of Jews. Levit
and Rog held Yesenin at the station of Kursk and handed him over to the
militia. Judge Lipkin demanded his arrest. But he was released, just as had
been done in Moscow on the 23rd of March 1924, when the secret agents
of the GPU, the Jewish brothers M. and I. Neiman wanted to charge him
with anti-Semitism (pursuant to paragraphs 172 and 176 of the criminal
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