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Сообщение от v_r

There is an old anecdote.
This intellectual can distinguish Hegel from Bebel Bebel of Babel, Babel, from the cable, the cable from males, males from females.

 But t.Budenny was not a "real intellectual"

 One of the soldiers-cavalry, was the writer Isaac Babel, the author of "Odessa Stories" and "Red Cavalry".
They say that when Budyonny was asked what he thought of Babel, the army commander shook his mustache and said:
- And that - despite what a Babel!__________________________________________________ ________________________

 in the former Soviet south
Among the steppes and grasses
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny
Riding a sorrel mare.