Soviet - American Crisis October 1962

More than 45 years have passed
Since I saw the
Soviet Ambassador last,
Before he spoke at
My Masonic Lodge,
Confidentially, he said to me,
"What in the future we may see
About Soviet-American relations
And their almost
Nuclear confrontations,
Americans have
No social morality,
They don't care about
People's lives' quality,
Their workers can be
Fired at will on any date,
Losing health insurance and job,
No one caring about their fate,
And the capitalists blatantly
Flout their riches with enjoyment
While the proletariat
Suffers hunger, unemployment,
And in the Soviet Union
We have no incentive
To create and be inventive
And our staid bureaucracy
Does not show any progress,
Causing our society and system
To be in a horrible mess.
I'll tell you what will happen,
But you can never quote me on this:
'You'll drift towards more socialism,
And we will find more capitalism
Will give us incentive, progress and bliss,
And then we will rise and shout:
What the hell were we fighting about!"

Alfred Charasz
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