Lenins And Putins And Stalins, Oh My! Poem by Joe Rosochacki

What do Lenin, Stalin, and Putin have in common?
They had their political enemies jailed or killed or disappeared.
The Soviet Union had started off the year that Bolsheviks took over,
When the Czar Nicholas fell, all the Russian ears heard.
Lenin then “beat” Trostky for the power reign over the Bolshevik Party.
His successors would be called premiers on the communist party until Reagan years,
Then the Soviet Union would be no more, and then Russia would be alone,
But not after the Russian people shed many tears.
Stalin was an insomniatic, phobiatic, premier that had many a mental disorder,
He was a totalitarian premier of highest order.
He was in cahoots with Hitler, (Hitler did mistake and later attacked the Soviets,)
And then Churchill and Roosevelt at Yalta were the three met,
The World War II was finished and Cold War began,
During the post-war Stalin years many people died, their fates set,
By the Stalin vice the came upon their head again and again.
Putin came in charge when the Soviet Union was Russia again,
His predecessors were various premiers and presidents,
A few were Kruschev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, and Yeltsin.
Putin has found power in the dollar,
No more Rubles to speak of, no “soft” currency, Why Hell, Russia is part of the G-8,
Putin silenced his rival by death or jail,
Kasparov does play a mean chess game, but in the political game, Putin is meaner,
But to Gary Kasparov, says Vladimar Putin, Check Mate.
Vlad III, the Impaler impaled bodies,
Vlad (Putin) IV, the impaler, impaled the democratic reform in Russia.
Putin is becoming a Czar,
Not of Royal blood, his reign should not go very far.

(12-3-2007)