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"A Giant Cockroach" by Kornei Chukovskii, a 1923 book with illustrations by Sergei Checkhonin. Josef Stalin later came to be associated with the heavily mustached cockroach character, but this book came before his time.

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"A Giant Cockroach" by Kornei Chukovskii, a 1923 book with illustrations by Sergei Checkhonin. Josef Stalin later came to be associated with the heavily mustached cockroach character, but this book came before his time.
Photo Credit: Mary Levin