“Comrade Khrushchev goes to visit a pig farm, along with a photographer from Pravda. Later, in the newsroom, the layout team is trying to decide how to word the caption. Should it be ‘Comrade Khrushchev next to pigs,’ or ‘Comrade Khrushchev surrounded by pigs,’ or maybe ‘Pigs gather around Comrade Khrushchev’? The suggestions are rejected one after another. Finally, the editor steps in. ‘OK, here it is,’ he says. ‘Comrade Khrushchev, third from right.’”
The Wizard of the Kremlin, Giuliano da Empoli.