• YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
    hexagon
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    9 months ago

    not modern as in "past 20 years", modern as in modernism, if I had to guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism

    Which pretty much lines up with his lifespan actually

    • Vncredleader
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      9 months ago

      Yeah and post-modernism is first said in 1949, which makes Stalin firmly modern. When talking about history we are dealing with a scale so vast that modern is a century ago.