A Short History Of The Twentieth Century, With Fries

By the time they got to the Finland Station, Lenin and his posse were famished.



"What'll it be, boss, Burger King or McDonald's?" asked Zinoviev.



Lenin rustled up the kopecks for a quarter-pounder and fries all round and they set to chowing down. By the time he finished, Lenin had had a better idea.



"I'm tired of this revolution business," he said. "Let's set up a chain of family restaurants instead."



It took a while to convince the Mensheviks, left-SRs, and other petit-bourgeois...