And? Parenti argued against China because he only had western sources available.

Not that this matters, critically assessing material means you can take useful parts from it and ignore useless stuff. Parentis analysis back then on China is frankly wrong. On left-anti-communists and so-called “western marxists”, he was spot on.

Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Knotting up your shirt so it only covers your upper body and letting the unc belly enjoy the sun.

As unc belly haver, I’m jelly.

No he was not, and not for the reason you are implying.

For a long time he walked from his flat to the Kreml to work and back. He had a bodyguard, but what could one dude do in such a situation should anything happen. The party leadership prerssured him to use a car instead. What did Koba do afterwards? Gave people rides if their destination was on the way.

Also his bodyguard was…not exactly perfect. Dude sometimes slept on the job and once handed Stalin his service gun “for security”, before snoozing off. Stalin kept him.

During the late 20 and early 30s, Stalin defended people from accusations of having conspired to kill him until it came out, that they indeed had planned to kill him.

I imagine Beria and co. lost most of their hair worrying about how to keep their boss safe. Koba was running around with a moral west before Castro coined the term.

Very decent, if a bit naive, first season. The second season wasn’t for me, felt disjointed and rushed.

Thinking it daily.

Procrastinating late at night. Don’t want to sleep yet, nor really up to do something serious.

Oh its a good one, basically Neon Genesis Evangelion but with Nahuatl myths instead of Abrahamic ones and a happy ending.

Why make humanoid robots when you can have human robots? The latter even reproduce on their own!

Eu5 is very much not there yet. Maybe in a year it’ll be decent.

Meanwhile there are so many Eu4 mods to binge…

Eu4, Conquerors Blade and Menace.

Worth noting that the Zaptistas are tired of that bullshit. They outright issued a statement explaing how they are not “libertarian socialist”, anarchist, communist or any kind of socialist. They have supporters and members of those political orientations, but the movement as a whole is not.

He got banned almost instantly.