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Breaking News, North Pole:-

....Rudolf the Red Star Reindeer, who has "overthrown the yoke of the brutal fascist opressor and enemy of the working cervine / elfin proleteriat, the class-traitor and villain Claus".

"There is now an Elves and Reindeer Collective at the North Pole, organised on correct Marxist-Leninist principles".

"We hope to institure our first five-year plan, soon to ensure the pre-working proleteriat receive suitable fraternal gifts of solidarity at the Midwinter Festival".

Reuters:- it is uncertain as to what this means in practice for the children of the world, but we can perhaps anticipate Komsomolet scarves and copies of Das Kapital for under-fives to appear in the Christmas stockings this year as a "gesture of solidarity". Meanwhile, it is understood that Santa Claus, former ruler of the North Pole, has been refused political asylum by several countries....

I knew there was something fishy about the big guy with the red suit.