Just six years ago, when there were rumors that Stalin was dead, was dying or was going to the United States for a serious operation, the Associated Press Moscow correspondent—then Charles P. Nutter—wrote asking him for the truth.
This answer came, signed in blue pencil in Stalin’s own hand:
“I know from reports of the foreign press that I long ago abandoned this sinful world and moved into the other world.
“As one cannot doubt such foreign press dispatches unless he wants to be expelled from the list of civilized people, I request you to believe them and don’t disturb me in the calm of the other world.
“With respect,
“J. Stalin.”
I love it. It really shows that the blind trust by liberals in their
privately-owned mediafree press andcapitalist-controlled state mediapublic service media has been a frustration for the left for so long that even Stalin was taking the piss out of it.The Western Media’s stranglehold on public trust is being severely shaken by the situation in Palestine, but even as people see organisations like the BBC blatantly trying to suppress the reality of Palestinian genocide they still believe the same liars when they talk about Xinjiang or try to portray public sentiment in Taiwan as separatist.