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Banner: The All-Soviet Congress of Soviet Writers

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The best writers of all nations
came to their first congress.

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Congress chairman Maksim Gorkii.

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Tadzhik poet Aini and Ilya Erenburg.

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Aleksei Tolstoi.

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Fedor Glavkov and Boris Pasternak.

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Secretary of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party, comrade Zhdanov.

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Martin Andersen Nexo, Ernst Toller,
Andre Malraux, Jean Richard Bloc

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The reader meets the writer.

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From the Red Army soldiers, officers,

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commanders and political workers
of the Moscow garrison

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to the first All-Soviet Congress
of Soviet Writers: Long live ...!

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Alla Kanshina representing
the "Camp of the Pug-noses."

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We want to learn,
we want to know a lot,

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so we can be good Komsomols.

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Give us books, which we can
show the whole world,

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just don't you forget about it.

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Help us grow, there will come
a time when we can help.

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For a wonderful important literature,
for great children's books,

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Comrade grown-up writers: Be prepared!