COMRADES!

Permit me to propose one more, last toast.

I should like to propose a toast to the health of our Soviet people, and in the first place, the Russian people.

I drink in the first place to the health of the Russian people because it is the most outstanding nation of all the nations forming the Soviet Union.

I propose a toast to the health of the Russian people because it has won in this war universal recognition as the leading force of the Soviet Union among all the peoples of our country.

Excerpt from:

Toast to the Russian People at a Reception in Honour of Red Army Commanders Given by the Soviet Government in the Kremlin on Thursday, May 24, 1945 by J.V. Stalin

OK so I’m not Stalin, however I’m declaring the Great Patriotic Mouse War over.  It’s been a week since I’ve caught one.  I’ve changed locations and bait several times, and still nothing.  Until I start seeing “evidence” again it’s time to resume the pre-war routine.