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Now I know where Tolkien took hist giant eagles from!

"Anti-religious fairytales of the peoples of the USSR", E. D. Vishnevskaya. Moscow, 1939. Translated with google translate and my minor editing.

This happened when Tsar Nicholas was in reign, and the rich owned everything. Then Lenin and Stalin walked all over the kingdom and taught the poor that without the rich one can live better.
The rich got scared and went to the tsar to complain about Lenin and Stalin. And the tsar slept on his golden bed. The rich men woke the tsar and said to him:
What a tsar you are! You sleep and do not know that Lenin and Stalin are walking around your kingdom and teaching all the poor how to take away power from us. And the people firmly believe them and listen to them. Order to seize them and put them in jail. The tsar ordered. They put them in prison, and chained their legs to the wall with thick iron chains.

So Lenin and Stalin sit in prison for a day, two, three. The poor and all the people are surprised: where did Lenin and Stalin go? They go everywhere, ask each other, no one knows.
Birds and animals found out about it, they also began to search. One day, sparrows flew to the window of the prison where Lenin and Stalin were sitting, saw them and were so delighted that they did not even peck at the crumbs that Lenin and Stalin had sketched out for them. Sparrows called mice. Those quickly gnawed thick chains. The sparrows called the gophers, they quickly dug a passage underground from the prison to freedom. The sparrows called the eagles, they flew in and carried Lenin and Stalin away on their backs.

The royal servants rushed in pursuit. They've already begun to catch up. Then the sparrows called for help to tigers, wolves and bears. The royal servants were frightened and returned with nothing. Tsar Nicholas and the rich found out about this and began to ask God to help them seize Lenin and Stalin again. God agreed.

Lenin and Stalin are flying high above the ground. They saw a wonderful palace in the clouds. And that was the palace of God. God says to Lenin and Stalin:
“Come in to rest, and let the eagles fly on.” Lenin and Stalin entered the palace, but they took the eagles with them. God ordered his servants to seize Lenin and Stalin in order to give them to Tsar Nicholas and the rich.
Then the eagles dispersed all the servants of the god, and the eyes of the god himself were pecked out. God became blind and sees nothing. Lenin and Stalin got angry with God, pushed him down. God fell to the ground and crashed.

And so there was no god, And Lenin and Stalin descended to the ground, drove out Tsar Nicholas and the rich, and began to live happily: Russians, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Tatars and other peoples.