LENIN

In this communal room, no one is ever bored.

For in the most visible place hangs the portrait of Lenin.

To you, happy children, he opens the wide world.

He looks at us with a big smile, as if about to speak.

Be happy, little ones,

Grandchildren of the October Revolution.

Lenin lives eternally!

-- excerpts from a children's Lenin song from Soviet Women Walking a Tightrope by FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY