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The poem likens the spread of Communism through the world to a mad wind blowing red dust from the Russian steppes, bringing the threat of atomic warfare in its wake. The epigraph is from a poem by the major early 20th century Russian poet Aleksandr Blok.
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English translation of first line: The wind, the wind,
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Transliterated first line: Vyetyer, vyetyer,
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Epigraph: Ветер, ветер -
На всем божьем свете!
А. Блок
[Wind, wind -
In the whole of God's world!
A. Blok] -
Author's note: November 1980
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The poem has *** in place of a title.
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