How major Russian poets tried to COMMUNICATE with Stalin : c

Some sang odes to his “greatness and courage” for self-promotion. Others – out of fear for the lives of their loved ones. And there were those who thought they could be literally on the same page with the Soviet leader, if they devoted their verses to him.

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