{"product_id":"myndin-af-langafa-66047-57752","title":"Great-grandfather's photo # 66047","description":"The Picture of Great-Grandfather. Poem by Jóhann Hjálmarsson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There is a picture hanging on the living room wall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'm told it's from my great-grandfather,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e which I know never went to a photographer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The picture is green in a red frame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The man in the picture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e has a lush mustache\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and in a plain jacket\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e buttoned up to the neck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He looks kind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and the gaze fixed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My father rarely comes home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He is on a ship sailing abroad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When he comes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e he looks at the picture proudly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He pulls out a foreign paper,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e which he keeps in a cupboard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e with pictures of brown-haired men\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e in similar jackets to the man in the picture,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e although somewhat more ornate,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e some of them are loaded with words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Their names are foreign.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Among them are Tymoshenko,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Molotov, Rokossovsky,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Malinovsky, Zhukov,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kaganovich and Voroshilov.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He tells me these men are heroes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and the man in the picture is their leader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His name is Joseph Stalin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and comes from poor people\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e like all of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He reads me a poem about the goodness of this man,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ethe color in his field\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and the onion in the garden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There are many books in my father's bookcase,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e which have never been seen in space:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Empire and Revolution, The Great Conspiracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e against the Soviet Union,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Under the guidance of the council, Spring throughout the world,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Letter to Lára, Pistilinn wrote,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Salka Valka and the People's Book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I learn to recognize the most important ones from the others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I proudly point to these books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e when a guest arrives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I often look at the picture on the wall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The war begins and sometimes we hear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e in airplanes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The British are coming. Dad often talks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e with the soldiers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e in a language I don't understand.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bókin.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51122227052872,"sku":"OSC-57752","price":3900.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4029\/9848\/files\/66047.jpg?v=1754741357","url":"https:\/\/www.bokin.is\/en\/products\/myndin-af-langafa-66047-57752","provider":"bokin.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}