A Gift for Stalin, Part Two: The Accursed Share

<p></p> <p>It all started with a letter to Stalin in 1935. And when a Kremlin clerk opened it, there was a piece of shit inside.</p> <p>Was the turd an insult? A way of saying to Stalin, “You’re a shit. Here’s some shit”?</p> <p>Perhaps.</p> <p>But I ended Part One of a Gift for Stalin on a different note: that the turd addressed to Stalin was no slight at all. It was, in fact, a gift.</p> <p>A little brown present for Comrade Stalin.</p> <p>The post A Gift for Stalin, Part Two...