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as a rebuttal. In addition, his character was a prototype for
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that he had been reported by a secretary, who had heard him complain that Stalin left grubby finger marks on books borrowed from Bedny's private library, but it appears that Bedny's real offence was that his writings were highly critical of Russia's imperialist past, but Stalin, though he was not an
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for its "antihistorical and mocking depiction of Old Russia's acceptance of
Christianity." He tried to regain favour with verses virulently attacking prominent victims of the
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commanders had been arrested, which included all of their names in a rhyming scheme. Nonetheless, in 1938, Bedny was stripped of membership in the
Communist Party and of the
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in 1933. In the 1920s and the 1930s, he was very popular and variously supported by the Soviet regime. The town of
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was the glue that held the Soviet Union together". In
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