Another tyrant

Vladimir Nabokov, “Tyrants Destroyed.” In The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (1997).

Nabokov’s note on this story:

“Istreblenie tiranov” was written in Mentone in spring or early summer 1938. It appeared in the Russkiya Zapiski, Paris, August 1938, and in my Vesna v Fialte collection of short stories, Chekhov Publishing House, New York, 1956. Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin dispute my tyrant’s throne in this story — and meet again in Bend Sinister, 1947, with a fifth toad. The destruction is thus complete.

The fifth toad is another fictional dictator.

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