"You Could Spot Them By Their Horns And Tails!"

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Walpurgis.

Ummm... yeah... Muir, as bad as the Soviet Union was, the USSR of the '80s was hardly a place of hideous regular Stalinesque purges--more bloated inefficiency and isolated bits of brutality punctuated with military exercises in foreign satellites, all of it dedicated to keeping up the pretense that their ideological state was working.

So, pretty much your Bizzaro twin, actually.