He Comes to Bury Stalin

Responding, I assume, to Don’t Forget Stalin , our friend Dimitri Cavalli sent the link to a newspaper article from 1953 giving Bishop Fulton Sheen’s modernization, read on his television show, of the funeral scene from Julius Caesar modernized to refer to Stalin . It’s more a curiosity than anything else, but still entertaining.

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