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Vladimir Lenin was famously disinterested in food and eating. For Lenin, food was a necessary inconvenience. Cuisine was a bourgeois extravagance. His successor Stalin, however, brought with him a Georgian flair for dining that was in sharp contrast with the Spartan fare of the early USSR. As Nikita Khruschev noted, "I don’t think there has ever been a leader of comparable responsibilities who wasted more time than Stalin did just sitting around the dinner table eating and drinking." |