WWII era Soviet joke In the middle of Stalin's war council Marshall Zhukov storms out of the room, muttering ""The moustached tyrant went utterly batshit"" to himself. Head of NKVD Lavrentiy Beria hears him and immediately repeats what he heard to Stalin. Stalin calls Zhukov back and asks who did he mean. ""Hitler, of course."" ""And who did **you** think he meant, comrade Beria?""