Yury Dombrovsky. Faculty of unnecessary things (№ 460939)

Under Lenin, Hitler would have been impossible. Under Lenin, he was in prison and wrote memoirs... Under Lenin, only this fool of a pea, Mussolini, could appear. But when you, the archangels, cherubim and seraphim, appeared - as it is sung: steel arms-wings and a fiery engine instead of a heart - and began to chop and burn, immediately the Western man in the street was scared to the point of hysteria and blocked himself from you with the same steel Fuhrer. Of course, more workers' parties could curb him. But you also set them against each other, and such a dog fight began among them that they themselves met Hitler as Jesus Christ. And as he came, so did the war. And now the war is at the doorstep, knocking on the door, and it turns out: now you and I are sitting at opposite ends of the office, and Hitler will come, and we will stand side by side against the wall. Unless, of course, you have switched sides by then, but oh! you will defect, it looks very likely that you will defect. And you’ll also be in charge of our executions.