‘Stupendous Facts’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky from Workers Monthly. Vol. 5 No. 3. January, 1926.

Never in annals of history has it been
facts
yesterday
circling
booming out internationality—
Smolny
spreading
to workers in Berlin.
And suddenly
stool pigeons
saw
—old timers of bars and the opera—
the three-storied
fright
From Russia.
It crept up.
Stepping across Europe
diners gagged with the food in their throats.
It loomed
and above the victorious arch
waving:
“ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS!”
Useless the revolt of soft hands
for they cannot stop it on its unheard of course.
It crumbles away.
And Smolny rushes onward
over barriers of republics and czarism.
And
from the sparkling sidewalks of
Brussels
with tense nerves
has woven a legend
of the “Flying Dutchman”
revolutionary “Dutchman”
And be
on Belgian plains
on fields red with blood
bounds,
there where the Allies’ yells resound.
Standing red above Paris.
Parisians become mute.
Stands and alluring with winning March.
And lo
under the heel of revolt
the republic collapses
And he is over the La Manche
his path taking in London sky vaults.
And then
they saw him on board ship
down, down,
above the Atlantic ocean
paddle across
to the gold diggers of California
they say—
he forged fire from the depths.
These facts are valued hundredfold.
Few believed
and craftily engaged in debate.
And Friday
morning
America blazed up
—thought it earth but was gunpowder—
Useless the finicking of bourgeois gossip
Do not be pigheaded with Russia, excited boys—
Be referred
to this happening at Smolny
And to this
I
Mayakovsky
Am a witness.

The Workers Monthly began publishing in 1924 as a merger of the ‘Liberator’, the Trade Union Educational League magazine ‘Labor Herald’, and Friends of Soviet Russia’s monthly ‘Soviet Russia Pictorial’ as an explicitly Party publication. In 1927 Workers Monthly ceased and the Communist Party began publishing The Communist as its theoretical magazine. Editors included Earl Browder and Max Bedacht as the magazine continued the Liberator’s use of graphics and art.

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