Homer of the 20th century

Ninety years ago, in August 1934, the bright poetic speech of a representative of mountainous Dagestan at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers made a really strong impression on the delegates and guests of this historical forum, despite the fact that he spoke the Lezgin language. “Ashig Suleiman Stalsky made an amazing impression on me, and - I know - not only on me,” declared the founder of multinational Soviet literature, Maxim Gorky, during the days of the congress. “I saw how this old man, illiterate but wise, sitting on the presidium, whispered, creating his poems. Then he, Homer of the 20th century, read them amazingly. Take care of people who are capable of creating such pearls of poetry as Suleiman creates.”

“An old man in a beshmet and soft mountain blankets approached the podium with an inaudible step,” it was reported on August 23, 1934 in the editorial of Pravda, which covered in detail the work of the writers’ congress. “The merciless light of the Jupiters hit him in the face, but the old man remained completely calm. He began his speech in his native language with a voice unexpectedly strong and young.

This was the national poet Suleiman Stalsky, known throughout Dagestan, a delegate and member of the presidium of the All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers. The voice of the 66-year-old poet and singer sounded young and strong because it was the voice of a man liberated by the revolution, and also because folk singer Suleiman Stalsky here, at the congress, spoke not only on his own behalf, but also on behalf of his people, liberated by October.

The old poet spoke about the simple and the great - about revolution and the struggle for a new life. He spoke about the new roads laid by the Bolsheviks in the mountains of Dagestan; about power plants that arose where mountain streams used to roar and goat paths ran, about the joy of collective work and a prosperous life won.

This is a translation of a post from Gazeta Pravda

The bodies of two refugees were found on the border of Belarus with Latvia

They were discovered by Belarusian border guards on the morning of May 9 in the Braslav region. The bodies show signs of violence; no personal belongings or documents were found on them, the Belarusian State Border Committee reported.

On the western borders of Belarus, a total of 166 refugees were injured and 13 people were killed at the hands of the fascist security forces of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

Surviving refugees speak of constant abuse at the hands of the imperialist EU: people are severely beaten, tortured with electric shocks and robbed, deprived of food, warm clothing, means of communication and money. Then the fascists throw the dying or already killed refugees onto the Belarusian side.

This is what the “European garden” really looks like.

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