Since the year of the poem is 1935 and the Moscow trials did not begin until 1936, Gandall performs the miracle of reversing time when he suggests the poem is "a parody of ...the Moscow purge trials." True, Gandall might "read" the poem that way; Brecht cannot have written the poem that way. But it gives Gandall occasion to speak of "pro-Soviet oppositionists" – who worked in secret to overthrow the Soviet Union. We get bad history dressed in miraculous literary work. But let us respect Gandall's claim that he is not now but was a Trotsky---.
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