Stalin "Urban Legends"

[Zielinski]

>
> Has anyone come across any anecdotes like this (in literature, the press,
> orally, etc.) regarding Stalin?
>
I do vaguely remember a Polish joke from the late seventies about a poor man
in the Soviet Union, coming on foot to a shop with flags and party gadgets
and buying one portrait of Lenin and one of Stalin. He returns on a bicycle
a week later and buys 5 Lenins and 5 Stalins. Two months later he is already
driving a car and buys 100 Lenins and 100 Stalins. On the inquiry of the
seller about the reason of his rapidly growing prosperity he replies:
- I've opened a shooting range near the town.

Jan Zielinski

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