[a fool in paradise]

A friend of mine at the time said that the Communist bookstore in Harvard Square had a decidedly pro-Chinese government window display during the whole thing.

[dfwgator]

I think of this song, what was written when Poland was still Communist in 1987, by Kazik, who is still very popular there, and for reasons, has been very much in the news there lately, but that’s another story.

But this is the rough English translation of the lyrics, the video used the images of the man in front of the tank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yia6Y_ST7IY

I saw them tearing up the carcass with their teeth

I saw them threatening each other with rifles

I saw them shaking hands with each other

I saw, they sat on the throne in the crown

I saw them walking on shoes

I saw them driving tanks

Chorus:
Hey, don’t you know, you have no power in the world

Hey, don’t you know, you have no power in the world

Hey, don’t you know, you have no power in the world

Hey, don’t you know, you have no power in the world

Hey, don’t you know, no, no, you have no power

Hey, don’t you know, it’s not your power in the world

Hey, don’t you know, you have no power in the world

Hey, don’t you know the world!

I saw them shaking hands with each other

I saw, they sat on the throne in the crown

I saw them walking on shoes

I saw them driving tanks

I saw them tearing up the carcass with their teeth

I saw them threatening each other with rifles

Chorus

Hey, you don’t know the world!