{"id":1571,"date":"2009-02-01T13:38:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:22","slug":"why-the-slippers-were-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/why-the-slippers-were-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the slippers were red"},"content":{"rendered":"

The participants in this conversation were a\u00a0middle-aged<\/span>\u00a0prime of life man whose degree course included a year on Comparative Communist Systems, and a child born three years after the Berlin Wall came down and who is now studying the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin.<\/p>\n

See if you can guess which speaker is which.<\/p>\n

– “Yugoslavia had maybe the most successful communist system, though it was only held together by Tito-”<\/p>\n

– “Dorothy’s dog?”<\/p>\n

– [after baffled pause] “what?”<\/p>\n

– “Dorothy, in that film …”<\/p>\n

– “The Wizard of Oz?”<\/p>\n

– “… had a dog called-”<\/p>\n

– “TOTO!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

– “Oh. Well. It’s only one vowel.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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