Stalin and Belshazzar

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

Stalin has certainly more than once been identified with Belshazzar; Fazil
Iskander¹s novel Sandro of Chegem, contains a fine chapter titled
ŒBelshazzar's Feasts¹, in which the hero, a prominent member of an Abkhazian
dance troupe, meets Stalin at a banquet in Abkhazia in the 1930¹s.

Does anyone know of other times this identification has been made?  I would
be especially interested if anyone knows of any instances, oral or written,
from the early 1930s.

Best wishes,

Robert

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