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[–] Lavender@hexbear.net 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was Rasputin the spectre of communism all along?

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love spooky stuff so itd be cool but it wouldnt be materialist at all.

Sounds like a cool alternative history story tho, swap Lenin with rasputin and see what happens

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Incidentally, this is the plot to the film The King's Man. Including a rad mid-credit scene of Lenin and Hitler chumming it up like, "How do you do, comrade Hitler? You and I are exactly the same, I being Lenin the communist, and you Hitler the fascist. We're going to make a sequel to this World War."

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

I think if I saw that on screen while enjoying a terrible Cold War movie with my dad, I'd probably accidentally and involuntarily break whatever was in my hand at the time. But then, I've always liked to call myself a "Leninist" and a "Bolshevik", rather than more modern terms, so maybe I'm a little more prone to Lenin's cult of personality than most modern Western commies.