‘Seppla’ was the pseudonym of Josef Plank who drew for the Illustrierte Beobachter and contributed to the Berlin journal Die Brennessel (The Stinging Nettle) from at least 1931 onwards. This drawing, ‘ “Little Father” in His Den – Dream in a Moscow Hunting-Lodge’ (3 May 1938), has Stalin dozing beside a blazing hearth filled with the bones of his recently purged enemies, their heads mounted above the mantelpiece.