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How was Rāutu regarded by disgraced communist writers?

  • "The perfect acrobat" or "Malvolio"

  • "The great leader"

  • "The wise guide"

  • "The true hero"

Answer

Disgraced communist writers such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Leonid Borodin regarded Rāutu as the "perfect acrobat" or "Malvolio", referring to the character in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night who pretends to be of higher social class than he is in order to advance his social standing.
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