Apologies to the Limeliters, who sang the ballad of Harry Pollitt in their 1961 Grammy-nominated album "The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters," which begins:


Harry Pollitt was a worker, one of Lenin's lads.
He was foully murdered by those counterrevolutionary cads.
Counterrevolutionary cads! (Ptui!) Counterrevolutionary cads! 
He was foully murdered by those counterrevolutionary cads.

In fact, Harry Pollitt, a founder and leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was merely jailed for a year.

The counterrevolutionary cads referred to in this article will also remain anonymous, although for a journal which allows, and even encourages, spoof science articles, see the Annals of Improbable Research.

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