At the height of the great purges Stalin, working at a very cluttered desk, accidently writes his own name on the days arrest order thinking he is signing a different piece of paper above it. The list then goes to a NKVD officer to afraid of Stalin to disobey his order no mater how strange it is. So that before anybody else realizes what is happening Stalin is arrested and shot. What happens when the rest of the politburo realizes what happened?