[Zhukov]

Well I guess we just have had different personal experiences then.

My uncle tells me that when he got back from Vietnam they used to parade the returned soldiers onstage while somebody recited it, at an anti-war rally. This was at a time when Asian restaurants etc were being firebombed, and the police weren't worrying about them. So it would be in a "nobody gives a shit about the asians now, but they wont give a shit about you soon enough" context.

It has been used by the Greens party here in Australia to 'defend' refugees - changing the lyrics around somewhat...

"the poem is mainly used to justify action, both military or otherwise, against genocide and other injustices"

action against injustice or genocide... so an anti war protest, maybe? I've seen it hijacked by the 'left' more than the 'right', and I've never encountered it in a pro war light. Weird huh? But I never took it as a poem written about communists in the 70s, where did you get that from? Is that humour?