He's referencing the storming of the Winter Palace and the dissolution of the widely loathed provisional government during the Great October Socialist Revolution. Is Gabe Newell a modern Alexander Kerensky? Will he be defended to the last by a Women's Battalion of Death when the games worker red guards storm Bellevue? The answer, of course, is yes
I can't help thinking of Alexander Kerensky in the BattleTech/MechWarrior franchise when I hear that name.
That's one of my treats, all right?
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Aleksandr_Kerensky
Well at least his middle name is different.
Ok it’s not just me.
Seyla.
My apologies for using a contraction, I spend too much time on the freeborn HPG nets.
Respect to Liam Smoke Jaguar, even with that unfortunate Spheroid barbaric speech quirk, quiaff?
I only ever think of him in the Hoi4 mod Kaiserreich I used to play a few years ago