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Comedy, its been said, is nothing more than tragedy plus time.
A grunt brings him a suitable tot, but Malenkov demands the original girl be retrieved.
Fascists are monsters, but sometimes, they behave more like maddeningly incompetent office managers.
Did the whole orchestra brouhaha really happen?Probably.
(Though he bumped it up from 1944 to Stalins final hours for the sake of dramatic compactness.)
23, to which the comrade says sure, because thats the only thing a person says to Stalin.
So nervous, in fact, that the nights conductor passed out.
So the pianist, shes real, too?Indeed.
Just how ironic were Stalins final hours?Stalin didnt have to die that night in 1953.
Per Simon Sebag Montefiores biography, the conversation wasnt quite so strained.
Reportedly, when Molotov told her of his passing, she immediately fainted.
