The outstanding figure of the Communist movement, Karl Radek, the author of the first Russian translation of the book "Mein Kampf" and the countless number of anecdotes, was distinguished by extreme turbidity. Even at a public trial over him, he managed to combine the roles of the accused and the brilliant prosecutor of his entire "criminal group", for which he managed a dozen. My teacher of scientific communism, Irina Sergeevna, a descendant of the ancient race of propaganda-agitators, knew only one case when he managed to be planted in a pit.

In the 1920s, Karl Bernhardovich gave a vivid lecture on the international situation at a crowded factory rally. In the meantime, he stumbled on the religion – opium for the people and told the fresh scientific fact that the body weight at the moment of death does not change by a gram. From the point of view of scientific materialism, he explained, since the soul weighs nothing, it is not an object of the material world, therefore it does not exist.

In a confused silence, a question came from the room:
“How much is your party conscience?”