On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 10:25 AM, Charles wrote: > > f these are correct, Hook's memoir is an unreliable as Gandall's posts, > since the show trials had not begun in 1935.
As I replied to the same charge earlier, the purges began in 1934 with the sensational arrests of Zinoviev and Kamenev and others accused of belonging to a "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center". Brecht would have unquestionably been aware of this "terrorist centre" in the interim between their arrests and their show trial in 1936, and it increeasingly makes sense to me that his 1935 poem was written with it uppermost in mind. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41005): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41005 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118178757/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
