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I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it.
Joseph Brodsky
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Joseph Brodsky
Age: 55 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 24
Died: 1996
Died: January 25
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Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky
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