" The initials of the Communist Party in the 1930s, VKP, were read by peasant wits to stand for “Second serfdom” (Vtoroe Krepostnoe Pravo), while in the reading of some Leningrad youths the initials of the USSR itself—SSSR [CCCP] in Russian—became “Stalin’s death will save Russia” (Smert’ Stalina Spaset Rossiiu). "

― Sheila Fitzpatrick , Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s