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Mon Nov 24 23:13:14 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> ultimately, being a builder of industry at the 1917 (or even today's) tech level, fundamentally sucks. as in, the same way being in prison sucks. so stalin et. al. tried experiment: what if being a peasant sucked -more- ? and - it worked.
Wed Nov 19 03:11:10 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: not 'evil' but 'car that runs out of gas' as per your stalin article.
Thu Oct 23 06:12:44 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> 'stalin did not recede into the past - he dissolved into the future!' (de gaulle ?)
Sun Oct 19 03:45:47 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> hitler, stalin - never.
Fri Oct 17 04:24:54 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> (confiscate house, sell for half price to fella with stalin note)
Fri Oct 17 00:29:30 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> (turd that was pushed through because note from fellow with note from fellow with note from stalin)
Thu Oct 16 00:37:56 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> legend has it that stalin had the fuhrer's skull (what remained of it) as ashtray.
Tue Oct 14 01:14:21 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> how many of, e.g., stalin's, clients, got coffins.
Sat Sep 06 18:42:18 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> lol if stalin comes back from grave.
Wed Aug 13 21:23:45 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> roosevelt (or stalin, for that matter) just subscribed to a somewhat baroque school of biodiesel manufacture
Sat Jul 26 19:14:30 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> back to the treatment of nothaus - this was SOP for dissident types, at least post-stalin. you land, not in a jail cell, but a comfortable 'hotel room', where no one hangs you upside down, no! - but well-dressed, educated fellows have little chats with you over good coffee - to make you 'see reason.'
Fri Jul 25 03:20:51 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: supposedly stalin, but in point of fact it was a fictional stalin.
Mon Jul 07 11:36:05 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> alternatively, a 'stalin' biography, our f?hrer is soon to fail out of bob jones bible college.
Thu Jul 03 16:05:55 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> stalin died, condoms appeared, marriage as SOP didn't really start to sink till the '90s (ussr)
Sun Jun 15 17:36:49 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> ^ translation: 'this is comrade stalin. you must know because of whom you still live.'
Sun Jun 15 17:24:22 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> phun phact. russian truck drivers had portraits of stalin in their windshields (facing out.) possibly even now.
Sun Jun 15 17:21:00 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> incidentally, stalin's '30s purges are almost universally misinterpreted. he was trying to close down the meatgrinder.
Sun Jun 15 02:06:38 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> (famous letter from tito to stalin, found on the latter's desk after his death)
Wed Jun 11 04:31:50 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> stalin was never more frustrated and ineffective than when he played civ1
Wed Jun 04 04:38:10 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> at least stalin, in his engineered famines, sold his abroad to buy cannon