„Christ’s walk on the
sea or the salvation of Petri“
—
 That
was the commission’s description for
the fresco above the cathedral’s
vestry in Maria Saal, and what do we see?
Trotsky stretches a helping hand to the
drowning Lenin!
It’s a bit long the hair on your
head, comrade Trotsky — rather
Jesus-like, but on the other head, there
is no hair at all …
What may have been on the mind of Herbert
Boeckl? …
„I am fascinated! … Mr.
Rockefeller, please help a Jew with a
memory from your family’s bible?
… The salvation of Petri? …
What did the evangelists say about
it?”
Mathew 14 – 22:
... But during the fourth night-guard,
Jesus came to them and he was walking on
the sea. And once his disciples saw him
walking the sea, they were frightened and
they said: it is a ghost, and they
screamed. But soon, Jesus talked to them
and he said: Do not be worried, it is I!
But Petri answered and said: Lord, if it
is you, call me so that I can come to you
on the water. And he said: Come to me!
And Petri left the planks of the boat and
walked over water to reach Jesus. But he
saw a strong wind and that frightened him
and he was sinking. He screamed and said:
Lord, help me!
But Jesus stretched his hand and took
hold of him, and he said: O you
faint-hearted, why are you doubting?
„I am deeply moved! This is my
rehabilitation! …
O you faint-hearted Lenin, why did you
not accept my hand?”
Unfortunately,
nobody — with the exception perhaps
of Diego Rivera — has taken note of
it.
It is possible that he heard, on his
travels to and from Moscow in 1927/28,
about the Austrian art-scandal … in
order to repeat it in New York, with
Lenin’s head — not with
your‘s, comrade Trotsky!
The „Red Church” had deleted
from her own history all of your
pictures, and it remained inexorable
— beyond its own collapse …
Even reformer Gorbachev declined to
provide you with a posthumous
appreciation. And in 1989, the member of
political bureau, Vladimir Jakovlev, told
the German leftwing-politician Gregor
Gysi:
 Trotsky was
a merciless man whose hands are covered
all over with blood.
Hold
your breath, comrade Trotsky! At least in
the eyes of the Catholic Church you found
belated grace, the fresco in the Austrian
cathedral was not destroyed — it was
only veiled for fifty-four years —
until 1981!
Today, the community of Maria Saal does
not really canvass for tourists with this
„scandalous” fresco; they
simply seem not to bother.
„May I continue?”
Please,
Dag!
„I maintain: news is rarely a
product of journalistic research, but
more often the product of special
group-interests … for example: the
product of ROOM 5600 which is located on
two floors of the Rockefeller-Centre as
the centre of a spider’s web for
many decades. How shall we call it, Mr.
Rockefeller?
‚Care of the media‘, nationally
and worldwide — ‚Management of
news‘ — ‚Political
propaganda‘?
The Rockefeller-Centre
was always a hive of
media-activity: from Radio-City, the
Headquarters of NBC, you have programs
like ‚Nightly News‘ with Brian
Williams, ‚NBC Today‘,
‚Late Night‘ with Conan
O'Brien, ‚Saturday Night Live‘
...
In the forties and fifties the big names
in media business and in public relations
were Francis A. Jamieson — Pulitzer
Laureate, James W. Young — Chief of
J. Walter Thompson PR-agency, Karl A.
Bickel — first President of the
news-agency United Press, later Chairman
of Scripps-Howard Radio.
ROOM 5600 helped one of your sons, Mr.
Rockefeller, the one we came to know
already: Nelson — to engage these
coryphaei in one of the biggest
opinion-manipulations of all time
…”
Stop!
We would like to visualize this, Dag!
Our train-director is very much impressed
by the multimedia-technique of the Sky
Shuttle Lifts in the Rockefeller-Centre
... he thinks it would be adaptable ...
if power does not fail us ...
„Who is directing this performance,
anyway?”
Allow me to introduce myself: Dunkler
— my name, André Dunkler from
Austria —
originally in search for African
circus-acrobats ...
„Excuse me?“
Well, I have heard how many things have
been brought to the world by dignitaries
on this train — light for example,
socialism, peace as well. I am more
modest, especially as an Austrian! But, I
am always at service, and an occasion for
advertising will never be refused. I am
going to bring the world the circus!
Africa! Africa!
Circus of new dimensions!
I am bringing Africa! Africa! to Europe
 The continent of amazement
A world of bright colours
Exciting fragrances and
rhythms
The awakening Africa
Its sensual power
Its hunger for future
Traditions and creativity of
foreign cultures ...
I
Thank
you, Herr Dunkler ... please, Herr
Dunkler, we would be delighted if you
could concentrate on your contract to
keep this stage rolling with animation, a
concept — and our controller is very
keen to establish this — of which
you have not provided the idea for!
... And you, Dag, please continue ...
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