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translation:
I
think that Stalin started to take interest in my activity later, in 1937. I
already worked before, I published my satirical vignettes, had a certain
fame, but I didn't think that my works would interest Stalin. I knew
Trotsky appreciated them and Trotsky himself wrote the introduction on my
first drawing book in 1924.
...I found myself at a
running door. The door had small holes on it, I got my eyes closer and saw
the casket actually in front of the oven, closed by an iron gate.
Mayakovisky laid as if he was sleeping, his face very tranquil, his hair
full and big... Sometimes he would shave them down to zero, but
in that that period he had them long and beautiful.
Suddenly I saw the gates open and
the casket slid inside... I remember the hair that crumpled instantly
and right away caught fire. Then the gates closed again. I can
say that I scorted him up to his last presence here on Earth. |
