Lenin's paternal grandmother had Kalmyk Mongolian ancestry. This is a joke based on that.
Why do we care that he is Mongolian? Seems kinda orientalist
Orientalist? Rather a proof of inclusivity of bolshevik party.
Believer Simba is shocked/horrified to learn of his ethnicity, ses less inclusive to me
It’s a meme… on a meme comm.
This is just poking fun of nationalism
ShowIf you meant the meme, you're right, it's sus, not to mention using of believer/unbeliever. But then you shouldn't say "why do we care". We absolutely should care how in the time of rampant racism our ideological predecessors weren't racist.
Yeah, but it does seems sus in the context, and the original is just boring fishspeak too.
Correction it was paternal grandfather Nikolai Ulyanov.
According to Volkogonov she was half Kalmyk, no way Ilya would look like that being only quarter one.
I said she had Kalmyk ancestry and she did. There was nothing for you to correct.
Why does this scare the believers but makes the non-believers happy?
I think in the original meme the non believers are faking it and the believers are shocked to find out that Jesus isn't white.
The BNMAU was the only true socialist state post-Lenin so this does not shock me