This song was written for a Second City show called Sci-Fry, which had a segment about a kid who bought Stalin's corpse off of EBay, and re-animated him using parts from a discarded Simon game, making him a zombie Stalin. Hence the "eating capitalist brains" lyric. When we wrote this, we were aiming at a "Courtship of Eddie's Father" feel.

By the way, on this day in 1953, Joeseph Stalin died. Had he lived, Beatnik Turtle would likely be recording in Siberia.