title: Stalin is like a fairytale sycamore tree — Stalin as a symbol
abstract: Stalin is like a fairytale sycamore tree -Stalin as a symbolGratitude's a dog's disease. Iosif Stalin 1There was a fight in a line at the factory; people were hurt and a couple of policemen showed up.People just can't seem to appreciate how happy their lives are.Andrei Stepanovich Arzhilovsky (ex-prisoner, executed by firing squad, 5 September 1937) 2Depending on your point of view, Stalin may or not be like a fairytale sycamore tree, but this metaphor, from a panegyric by Kazakh poet Dzhambul, 
journal: ANU Press eBooks