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The Bolsheviks aroused the workers' dread,

and filled them with a sharp, hysteric fear.

So one of them (he stood almost right here)

shot, at close range, through Lenin's bulbous head.

The proletariat chose to reject

that "vanguard" party whose shrill disrespect

for any but their own thought (boisterously

declared) threatened the new democracy

with adamant impossibility.

That locomotive (their own simile)

might have plowed down this change in history.

Starward

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