This is exactly the kind of useless consumer good that would never have been produced in the Soviet Union, and it is because we had so much more consumer spending on stuff like silly putty that we won the Cold War. Go team! Dear Joseph Stalin, you really sucked. There was a great moment in your life at your first wife's funeral when you said, I don't think I shall ever love again, and then later you had that wife's whole family killed. Putting aside the fact that you're responsible for tens of millions of deaths, I don't like you because of the way you treated your son Yakov. I mean, you were really mean to him, and then he shot himself, and he didn't die, and you said he can't even shoot straight. And then later, when he was captured during World War II, you had a chance to exchange prisoners for him, but you declined.