'Yes, Ewan MacColl did write a song in praise of Stalin, "The Ballad of Stalin".' He is also sometimes attributed (whether accurately or not, I don't know) with the song that begins: Hitler's a non-smoker and Churchill smokes cigars; They're both as keen as mustard on imperialistic wars. But Uncle Joe's a worker and a very decent chap; He even smokes a pipe and wears a taxi-drivers cap. The German drive on Stalingrad is ging mighty slow; They've got a room in no. 9 of Slobaskaya Row. Hitler makes the blunders and his generals take the rap; But Joe just smokes his pipe and wears his taxi-driver's cap. It would be difficult today to say which is less PC - the attitude to Stalin or the attitude to pipe smoking.
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