‘Once while walking, Leo Tolstoy spotted in the distance the figure of a
man squatting and gesturing strangely; a madman, he thought, but on
drawing nearer he was satisfied that the man was attending to necessary
work, sharpening a knife on a stone. Lenin was fond of citing this example.
Ygael Gluckstein (Tony Cliff ) – Lenin Vol 1
Portrait of Meir Pichhadze. Music by Yehuda Poliker.