Lenin was in the same band as McCarthy - how do ya get coincidences like that?

by reading Orwell's "1980" perhaps

Yeah. The signs were there. That's the year he died.

almost. 1924 it was

No, that's the year the other one was born, if you shift the last two letters. But Lenin died in 1980, gunned down.

Yes, it's all making sense now.

..Polar Oidds..

Stop Stallin'.