Nevsky/Stalin

[Paul Mackin]

On Jun 5, 2007, at 5:38 AM, Ya Sam wrote:

> Actually these interpretations made me smile. Although, whatever  
> floats their boat...
>
> You know there is a funny nursery rhyme by a children's poet Korney  
> Tschukovsky in which a terrible moustachioed cockroach terrorises  
> other animals. After Stalin's death a host of interpretators were  
> keen to point out that the cockroach is a thinly-veiled portrayal  
> of Stalin. As it turned out, it was just a cockroach.
>
> Saying that the warrior prince Alexander Nevsky (a well-known, even  
> half-mythical figure of medieval Russia) stands for Stalin (a  
> general secretary of Communist Party at the time, if I'm not mistaken)



Rather than "a" don't you mean "the" general secretary?

There was no one in the nation more powerful or important.


> is tantamount to saying that Joan of Arc in some French film stands  
> for Maximilien Robespierre.
>
>
>>
>> That is subject to interpretation. Many disagree with you.
>>
>
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