@VakarisSan Something I find kinda amusing is these thumbnails and images for articles always use Araghchi for some reason when he barely has any actual authority or influence in the country. It'd be like using Steve Witkoff to represent the US government.
@Nadie_Yenka@JacobL1994_@SetsunaFSeiei89@MaxNordau Most were either executed, murdered or committed suicide with the exception of maybe half a dozen or so. Pretty sure Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Stalin, Kalinin, Mikoyan, Molotov and Petrovsky were the only ones here who died of natural causes (and even Stalin is somewhat debatable TBH)
@JacobL1994_@SetsunaFSeiei89@MaxNordau Early Soviet leadership was mostly a hodgepodge of various minorities with a small number of ethnic Russians. A lot of people seem to assume all of the non-Russians were Jews, and some were, but many were also Georgian, Latvian, Armenian, Ukrainian, etc.
@JacobL1994_ Which is saying a lot, considering half the Cold War was more or less an IRL Bugs Bunny cartoon. The CIA plotted to kill Castro with an exploding cigar for God's sake.
@JacobL1994_ The Soviets belittling the Egyptians, telling them "Alright, here's how it's done, watch and learn", and then doing measurably worse than the Egyptians by every metric and never bringing it up again might be the single funniest event of the entire Cold War
@aimeeterese I fully committed to dating one and it almost entirely ruined my life. Still haven't really rebuilt.
She was also the only women I ever met to actually lose custody of her kid. She regularly threatened suicide over that when things didn't go her way.
@Divinsity There was a guy in a reddit thread years back talking about how when he was a kid watching CNN in 1991 he was always scared Saddam Hussein was going to come to his house and kill him
@StefanMillier44@myth_pilot Not sure what's going on with online right-wing-adjacent white women in their mid-30s, but Shoe0nHead and Aydin Paladin have both been having the exact same crashout since this started.
One of the funniest stories from that era (funny as in โhaha dozens of similar lawsuits during that decade destroyed my civilization itโs hilariousโ) is that some ugly communist bitch sued NASA because the Apollo 8 astronauts read the Bible out loud on Christmas.