The New Russians

The New and Improved Russian
   much snazzier suits
more aesthetically pleasing,
lean, mean, young and blonde

power with a handsome face

Lenin kept the cap too long
Stalin had that withered arm,
matching a withered soul
Trotsky didn’t go far enough
he should have been more like Gorbachev
yet for all their shortcomings
what they really lacked was marketing

The New Russian has no need for compassion
no socialist facade is needed
now only greed is heeded
there are new dogmas to be learned
and new hands to shake
   some are invisible,
others are more easily greased

There will be new Kulaks
those who disagree
the police will always be there
the KGB come full circle

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It’s unclear who the Tsar is,
its a matter of speculation

The five year plan is to liberate -
roubles fly from peasant pockets
- they've got the freedom to be poor again

The New Russian doesn’t hide
instead he steps out onto red carpet
into the best hotels
the wealth is on display
no side entrances into party shops,
no secret warehouses
just “isn’t capitalism wonderful, yes?”
and “oh, the peasants have always complained!”

who shall build the new pyramids
in this dicatatorship of the nouveau riche?

The new statues are more colourful
golden archways frame the future -
new suits, gold watches, champagne, blue skies

somewhere in Moscow, Kropotkin’s statue cries