I was telling my hospitalized cousin about this thread. He had a defibulator planted in his chest yesterday. I mentioned the Stalin, Hitler & Hell story from above. THe product of a Catholic education, he informed me that Stalin was in heaven. How would you know this I asked? An assignment from his teacher Sister Ann was to pray for one year,for someone who had just died. That person might have to spend a year in purgatory, but Heaven was assured. He'd seen the headline in the Newspaper that Stalin had passed. He being a good little 8 year old prayed for the required time. So Old Joe might be looking down on us. NOT! I wonder if the good sister believed what she was teaching.