RUSSIA: The King Georgy Version

Having already learned the benefits of rewriting their history, Russia's Communists have now decided to rewrite their bible: Das Kapital. Radio Moscow announced that Georgy Malenkov and his friends are worried about "serious faults" in the 1924 edition of Karl Marx, and have delegated Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to prepare a new edition, eliminating unspecified errors and correcting "certain distortions."

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