Serious what happened later ....

[greedy and cunning]

Six years later, 72 million had perished. Britain was broken, bankrupt and Lost its Empire and consequently World Domination, France and Germany a smoldering ruin. By May 1945, Red Army hordes occupied all the great capitals of Central Europe: Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Vienna, Berlin, Sofia. A hundred million people were under the heel of the most barbarous tyranny in history: the Bolshevik regime of the greatest terrorist of them all, Joseph Stalin.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Right about the same time, people were beginning to see Communist ideals as a way to end imperialism in colonies

With his rich girlfriend's photo in his wallet, young Harry Lee sailed off to Cambridge university...

 

[mojito]

Stalin was a handsome man. :o