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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Oh how history repeats itself. What a piece!

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man of aran's avatar

Or like Stalin and my name, as someone once said, it rhymes!

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

It does? I once had a student whose surname was Stalin… his first name was a joke to me. Just couldn’t believe how the parents thought for putting that name for a child.

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man of aran's avatar

I'm confused. Surname or given name? I think you mean the latter. The parents, yes, that is very weird. On the other hand, it wasn't that long ago that in certain quarters of the West, 'Uncle Joe' (not Biden!) was still a revered and beloved figure. Your student might have had such parents? Oh, and my name is perhaps not an exact rhyme. The first a sound in my name is a short /a/ as in 'cat' and the a sound in Stalin is probably a short /o/ as in 'got', but I've heard the short /a/ used as well. The following schwa is a match, though. Call it a half-rhyme, or 'slant' rhyme!

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Surname was Stalin and given name was another dictator’s name. But let’s not drop names. It was just a weird combo. Of names that is.

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man of aran's avatar

Hmm. I see. Anyway, thanks as always Pilgrim!

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Franci Louann's avatar

Wow.

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Dian Parker's avatar

All through history……………will it never end?

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Patris's avatar

Nope

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Jeff RE's avatar

Stanger than fiction...

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

The heart of Stalin still beats somewhere in the Kremlin

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Patris's avatar

I think we can guess

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Weston Parker's avatar

Ah, such happy times.

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man of aran's avatar

Yup, the good ol' days, out at the dacha by the lake. Idyllic!

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Weston Parker's avatar

Just a laugh a minute with that crowd.

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Richbee's avatar

The Old Gulag is the new frozen pool you don’t return from the waste land where your writings and thought wave become the vibrant butterfly’s wings flapping heard around the world in another corner of compassion crushing.

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Patris's avatar

The more things change..

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Annie Choate's avatar

Now you see them, now you don't. There are people who watch who's where.

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Lilija Valis's avatar

Be careful what you predict. It may come to pass, but Destiny may put a different spin on it.

Thanks for reminding us, Alan.

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