“To make things mentally easy for even the dullest, the official organ of Communist Youth, the Komsomolskaya Pravda, carried an arresting account of doings on New Year’s Eve in one of Moscow’s district locals of the Young Communists. Just as Grandfather Frost began handing out presents to Red moppets, a Red youth interrupted the festivities by shouting, “Stop! Comrades, you are making a terrible ideological mistake. Trees in the Communist society are meant for such serious use as the building of homes for the proletariat. Comrades, I order you to go home! Otherwise the whole meaning of our Revolution must sink into a morass of opportunism. Comrades! And you ‘Grandfather Frost,’ if you do not go home I shall denounce you to the Party Secretary of our Komsomol headquarters.” At this threat some of the moppets began to cry but Grandfather Frost, whipping off his whiskers, roared at the zealous Communist youth. “Shut up, you fool! I am the Party Secretary!”

In which we learn dictatorships used to be a lot more theatrical. (from a Jan., 1936 Time magazine article on a break in the Soviet Union’s War on Christmas)
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