A Historic Speech

A historic speech!

It was after work one evening. Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlo* dropped in to Vladimir Ilich Lenin's study.

'Vladimir Ilich, why don't we crack a bottle together?' said Sverdlov.

'No, no and again no!' said Lenin. 'Absolutely not.'

'Come, Vladimir Ilich! Just one between the two of us... last time we cracked two bottles between three and nothing very terrible happened.'

'I like your "nothing happened"! You and Dzerzhinsky went off home to bed, whereas I climbed up on the roof of an armoured car and spouted such a load of bullshit. . .'

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