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I understand that this is a Soviet joke:
Lenin: Comrade Stalin, would you sacrifice 10,000 for the Socialist Revolution?
Stalin: Yes, without hesitation.
Lenin: I would as well.
Lenin: Comrade Stalin, would you sacrifice 500,000 for the Socialist Revolution?
Stalin: Yes, without hesitation.
Lenin: I would as well.
Lenin: Comrade Stalin, would you sacrifice ten million for the Socialist Revolution?
Stalin: Yes, without hesitation.
Lenin: You see, Comrade Stalin, in such matters you and I are quite different.
Happy to leave it there. Bye!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
