The Monster Cockroach

The Monster Cockroach, also known either as Giant Cockroach or Cock-The-Roach, also popularly known by its Russian name Tarakanishche (lit. 'Тараканище'), is a popular Russian children's fairy tale poem written by poet Korney Chukovsky in 1921. The poem was later published by Raduga Publishers in 1923 and is regarded as a cultural poetic heritage among Russophones. It tells the story of an overgrown cockroach who assumed power over mankind and animals by bullying and threatening them, only to fall prey to a sparrow in the end. The "Big bad Cockroach" with mustache is usually regarded as satire on Joseph Stalin, although Chukovsky might also keep in mind Zinoviev and Leon Trotsky rdf:langString