[Cz-L] When walls had ears.

When we first joined the Soviet Union , comrade Stalin was Party Chairman.
 Then came war and the wall posters called him : "Macelarul din piata
rosie," that is " Butcher from Red Square " showing him in a bloody
 apron brandishing a bloody axe.
     Very confusing.
   On the radio there were songs like:
 " Si din pielea lui Stalin, facem ghete la Berlin",
   meaning :" From Stalin's hide, shoes we make in Berlin! "
  And "Din Crimea peste mare" from a longing soldier in rumanian Crimea.
   Then came winter of 1942 and the rumanians stopped singing.
    In 1944 when the Soviets came back ,Stalin was a Marechal and
Generalissimo.
    The "Sun of peoples".
      Most revered was his mustache. We called it "Stalin's Vontzies".
      Vontzies is a yiddish word originating in Ukrainean.
      It is in plural : A man usually had 2 vontzies one to the right ,the
   other to the left of the nose.
                Criticizing Stalin was not very advisable unless you wanted
to
visit regions beyond the arctic circle .
          Therefore you better be quiet.
       But people expressed their opinion by stroking their imaginary
mustaches. (Vontzies that is).
                  Because walls had ears.
                     Hardy
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