Tag: Red Army

Dancing with Snowflakes: The Personification of Death in The Rainbow

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Note: This is a crosspost from my personal blog.

The following are a few quotes that stood out to me in Chapter Four of The Rainbow.

Yes, to see the last German on the gallows, to see them working until they dropped.

But what good would that do her? Others might be satisfied, but her heart would never know peace. No amount of blood, no length of time, no revenge could wash away her memories. They would remain festering at her heart forever.

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Anna Akhmatova: Courage/Анна Ахматова: Мужество

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Anna Akhmatova: Courage

We know what trembles in the scales,
What has to be accomplished.
The hour for courage. If all else fails,
With courage we are not unfurnished.
What though the dead be crowded, each to each,
What though our houses be destroyed? —
We will preserve you, Russian speech,
Keep you alive, great Russian word.
We will pass you to our sons and heirs
Free and clean, and they in turn to theirs,
        And so forever.

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Mirrors of Moscow: Nikolai Lenin

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Mirrors of Moscow: Nikolai Lenin

LENIN became an active revolutionist through the spiritual motives that have moved all great reformers — not because he himself was hungry and an outcast, but because he could not stand by unmoved in a world where other men were hungry and outcast. Such characters are predestined internationalists; the very quality that lifts them above materialism places them above borders and points of geography; they strive for the universal good. Lenin believes that the only thing worth living for is the next generation. Communism is his formula for saving the next generation from the injustices and inequalities of the present.

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