Guillermo Cabrera Infante - My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to ...

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My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Meine Mutter war in einem Kloster erzogen worden, und sie war zu Beginn der dreißiger Jahre in Stalins zügelloser Zeit zum Kommunismus konvertiert worden. Sie hatte also zwei Götter, Gott im Himmel und Gott auf Erden.

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