"How old are you?"

"I'm... old."

"You're not old! You're not even a person, you're a testicle! You're mostly made of hair!"

I suspected I would like Communist The Thick of It. #TheDeathOfStalin

Canada's excellent film industry [1] has a window - a few years, probably long enough, but getting shorter every day - to do the funniest film re-make of all time.

It would be such a shame to wait until after he's gone to do it.

[1] Don't you dare call it "Hollywood North", you condescending ass.

#TheDeathOfStalin #TheDeathOfTrump #Canada #film #cinema #filmmaker #movie #remake #USPol #CanPol

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“How totalitarian regimes die.” @OldStPublishing #thedeathofstalin

Author Sheila Fitzpatrick has appeared on the Ramblings before, when I reviewed her excellent "A Spy in the Archives" back 2020. A noted and respected Soviet historian, as the book relates she spent some time living in the USSR and so she brings expertise and personal knowledge to her writings on the country and its history. So when I heard that Old Street Publishing were bringing out a new work by…

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/how-totalitarian-regimes-die-oldstpublishing-thedeathofstalin/