source https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19590924.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- TIL that during Khrushchev’s 1959 visit to the Mesla Machine Company steel plant in Pittsburgh, a worker named Kenneth Jackey handed him a cigar. Khrushchev didn’t smoke and in return, gave Jackey his wristwatch. Later, Jackey had the watch appraised for insurance and was told it was worth only $14.

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[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

in any scenario where we have enough power to be deciding who gets reeducated and who gets culled, all the nazis have either died in the fighting or fled the country

[–] Что_такое_любовь@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

Surely that was not true of Germany at the end of WW2.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That was so not the case at the end of WWII that Nazis wound up running NATO

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

no reason to make the same mistake again though

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Oh, absolutely. But it's not a foregone conclusion.