They Wouldn't Stop Clapping

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

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You didn't want to be the first to stop clapping.

The audience exploded into applause. Every person in the room jumped up and began to wildly clap, as if racing each other to see who could get to their feet the fastest. The applause was all to honor the dictator Joseph Stalin at a 1937 conference of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.

But the big question soon became: Who would have the nerve to be the first person to stop clapping in honor of Comrade Stalin? No one had the courage, so the clapping went on…and on…and on.

“The applause went on—six, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldn’t stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly…Nine minutes! Ten!…Insanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers.”

http://www.disappearingman.com/communism/men-wouldnt-stop-clapping/

[Dear Mami]

I know this is a serious piece, but I laughed reading the story of the clap. 

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I know this is a serious piece, but I laughed reading the story of the clap. 

It was indeed funny.  Imagine clapping until you drop.  I could see that happen because I always get the same feeling doing the battle rope.  Stalin was dictator’s dictator.  The envy of the kamwanas of this world.