That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 21, 2021

“Of course that’s your good side. In fact, you don’t have a bad side, Comrade General Secretary!”

Commie zombie

♫“I’m back in the USSR…..”♫

Stalin with his enemies list, first draft.

Stalin reads what Empty Greene says about her opponents and likes it.

“I have here a list of dissidents I will be pardoning today. Ho, ho, ho. Just kidding. I’ve always been a great kidder.”

I counted the votes comrades. Overwhelmingly unanimous again!

He speaks from his notes without shame/ for orations are not his game./ He expresses his urges/ with surges of purges/ thereby keeping his enemies tame.///// He used to be called Dzugashvili/ but decided that sounds rather silly./ He’s a fearsome despot/ when the weather is hot/ but he’s murderous when it gets chilly.///// He’s worked out a Five Year Plan/ with a mission for every man/ if your effort abates/ the GULAG awaits/- so you’d best work as fast as you can./////Just keep working, and don’t think twice/ don’t even slow down to pick lice/ Though there’s lice on the loose/ you’d better produce/ in the “Workers’ Paradise”…

Stalin’s favorite Karaoke song at the Kremlin:

“What the world needs now is love, sweet love”

“It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of”

Stalin stalling?

Stalin singing, ♫"Oh, mairzy doats and dozy doats and little lambsy divey/A kiddle divey, too./ Wouldn’t you?♫

Stalin doing his best Ed Sullivan impersonation…..“And now for something really special!”

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!

Danny Kay puts on 30 pound to do his one man show, Stalin.

May I now present a cultured, sophisticated, man about town….

Wow. The results of the vote are unanimous….

“Kremlin Karaoke”? Well, there we have it: decisive proof that Stalin was evil incarnate!

OK comrades, the last thing on my notes here is to remind you of the lovely punch and cookies following today’s meeting.

“What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger…”

Stalin wasn’t stallin’

When he told the beast of Berlin

That they’d never rest contented

Till they had driven him from the land

So he called the yanks and English

And proceeded to extinguish

The fuhrer and its vermin

This is how it all began

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Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’

Song by Robert Wyatt

My tea leaves tell me that my impact on the future will be great! Not only on those I send to Siberia but also on Western imperialist pig culture! Elvis has already copied my hairstyle and I’ve seen that the Queen, Freddie Mercury, will sport my mustache! (That one’s a little fuzzy though…)

Papa Joe chants the words which will become the inspiration for Cole Porter’s, “Just One of Those Things.”

“These listed here will be dead by morning….”

In quiet moments during his reign of terror, Joseph Stalin liked to pull out the latest “Lil’ Abner” comic book for some lighthearted entertainment.

For those who enjoy gallows humor… I can heartily recommend ‘The Death of Stalin’ (2017)

Uncle Joe liked to read the daily Kremlin linch … er … lunch menu to his staff…

Wednesday is Bulganin burgers, a Soviet salad with Khrushchev croutons, some Malenkov melon balls, and a Beria brownie.

He totally would have though, my brother told me for all his talk against the US he loved westernss and had a whole theater to himself to watch them. So singing country at karaoke is not a far stretch.

“Y’know, the funny thing about Stalin was……..hmmm…….oh.”

Portrait of J.V. Stalin: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaak_Brodsky_stalin02.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpage as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

https://www.askart.com/artist/isaak_israelevitch_brodsky/11091142/isaak_israelevitch_brodsky.aspx 

http://artpoisk.info/artist/brodskiy_isaak_izrailevich_1884/ 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Brodsky2.htm 

http://www.artcyclopedia.ru/brodskij_isaak_izrailevich.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, especially the second, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays, and Chrome can automatically translate most pages), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here (3 times, including 1 repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2013/02/06?comments=visible 

has the prior (the repeat), which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 24 hyperlinks remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2690 (April 20, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

P.S. For anyone interested, I added a reply to my yesterday’s comment about 4 hours after posting it.

Fellow Comrades, First we must potato salad. Then we must follow up with a gallon of milk. And next we must get two packs of hot dogs.

Wait a sec. This isn’t my speech, it’s my wife’s shopping list.

Comrades, next week I will meet with FDR and Churchill… What’s Churchill like? GIRLS! :>)

One unsung hero from back then: Polina Zhemchuzhina. She was the wife of Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin’s Foreign Minister, and probably ony real friend (they roomed together for many years (after the revolution, many large apartments were taken from the nobles and subdivided to make housing for the poor. During the Lenin era, many communist party leaders did the same, to show solidarity with the people).

“And we told them it was just a quick trip to Siberia and back, but the joke was on them! Hilarious!”

Stalin’s version of “My Heart Will Go On” caused multiple episodes of vomiting in the Kremlin.

These clues I have been following indicate that this “Pokemon” should be around here somewhere …

Stalin does western songs: “Happy Trails to You …”

Don’t be so picky, he said to Trotsky, or you might get iced.