After Lenin's death, his three most likely successors, Kamenev, Trotsky, and Stalin, are brought to a room where they are read Lenin's will.
The will mentions that he will give the position of General Secretary to the one who passes a final test of their devotion to the Soviet Union. They are given given a gun and are told to shoot whoever is in the next room over.
Kamenev goes in first, but comes out sobbing a minute later.
"I'm sorry, comrades. It was my mother inside, and I couldn't bring myself to shoot her for Lenin."
Trotsky goes in next, but exits crying soon after, too.
"I'd do anything for the revolution," he sobs, "but I can't shoot my poor old mother!"
Finally, Stalin goes in. The other two hear a gunshot and the sound of a scuffle. Stalin emerges several minutes later, disheveled and with scratch marks on his face.
"Those traitorous pigs!" he yelled. "They gave me blanks, so I had to strangle the old bitch myself!"
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