Lenin

Lenin walks around the world.
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
Nor does barbed wire scare him.

Lenin walks around the world.

Black, brown, and white receive him.
Language is no barrier.
The strangest tongues believe him.

Lenin walks around the world.
The sun sets like a scar. _

Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star.

—Langston Hughes
New Masses, January 22, 1946

V. 1. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya

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