Mao-Zedong’s 120th Birthday is being celebrated in China on 26th December and the Party Journal has already published an article praising his leading China forward.

The Birthday of Joseph Stalin, who ruled Russia and was the Secretary of the Party from 1922 to 1952 till his death was also in December. It was celebrated in his home town Gori, but not much elsewhere.

History has its own jokes, twists and turns.