I found this story in today's Western Mail newspaper:
"A company in Ukraine has found a new way of collecting debts from unpaid heating bills - using pictures of Stalin.
Posters of the Soviet dictator were put up around the city of Donetsk with the warning: "Comrades! This is not the cinema, this is real life. Anyone who does not pay their heating bill will be punished."
"It was the nearest we could get to intimidating people without sending around the heavy mob and it has worked," said an official from state-run Donetsk Heating."
No doubt this tactic will be exported to Britain as soon as Gordon Brown is safely installed as Prime Minister.
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