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Lovely old photograph
« on: September 13, 2012, 06:23:07 PM »
I thought I would share this lovely old photograph. Russian I think (?)
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Re: Lovely old photograph
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2012, 08:28:30 PM »
That's Leon Trotsky with the box??  We'd all love to know what tune he's playing.
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Re: Lovely old photograph
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2012, 09:57:21 PM »
Quote from: tjsmithdog5 on September 13, 2012, 08:28:30 PM
That's Leon Trotsky with the box??  We'd all love to know what tune he's playing.
Something by Lenin and McCartney perhaps? ;)
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Re: Lovely old photograph
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2012, 03:09:20 AM »
Caption says "S. Ulyanov and L. Trotsky, Coyoacán, Mexico, 1938." Went to try to figure out who this "S. Ulyanov" was because I couldn't recall any significant Russian emigre with that name, and evidently i comes from the work of a Russian artist who created a completely fictional twin brother for Lenin. http://slswrites.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/lenins-little-known-twin-brother/
« Last Edit: September 14, 2012, 03:11:31 AM by doktorfolkenstein »
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Re: Lovely old photograph
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2012, 05:29:10 AM »
Quote from: Daddy Long Les on September 13, 2012, 09:57:21 PM
Quote from: tjsmithdog5 on September 13, 2012, 08:28:30 PM
That's Leon Trotsky with the box??  We'd all love to know what tune he's playing.
Something by Lenin and McCartney perhaps? ;)

Or "Lenin On A Lamp-post".......
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Re: Lovely old photograph
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2012, 06:16:22 AM »
Presumably taken 2 years before he spoke his final words:

"Why did he pick on me?"

(Groan!)
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Re: Lovely old photograph
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2012, 09:22:09 AM »
Quote from: GPS on September 14, 2012, 05:29:10 AM
Quote from: Daddy Long Les on September 13, 2012, 09:57:21 PM
Quote from: tjsmithdog5 on September 13, 2012, 08:28:30 PM
That's Leon Trotsky with the box??  We'd all love to know what tune he's playing.
Something by Lenin and McCartney perhaps? ;)

Or "Lenin On A Lamp-post".......

Surely It was Mussolini who liked to hang around on street corners.
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