>>>I remember a remark by Joseph Stalin, “If a family dies it is a catastrophe. If a million die it is a statistic”! Papa Joe was an expert at creating “statistics”!
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>>I always thought that Stalin was typically referred as "Uncle Joe" :)
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>An aphorism from our past:
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>"The best means of pacifying the people is tea. Black. Georgian (Grusian)"

Hmm, don't think it will work. Georgian tea usually was referred in Russia as "besom" (imagine yourself, trying to drink tea made of your broom :)