honestly that whole "tsar" quote seems like the other miryad of bullshit stalin quotes they got in there
It does sound like something a
birthdaynormal person wold say to their aging mother/grandmother though. Just massively simplifying it down into something they'd understand within their frame of experience.exactly. his mom was an old religious georgian peasant born in the mid 1800s who had never even left her village. she venerated the tsar. assuming the quote is true (which, again I doubt) I would honestly think the most charitable and likely interpretation is he was just telling his old mama what he thought she wanted to hear. "General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" wouldn't have made any sense to her.
I would guess it's like trying to explain to your mother that your VR headset is "kinda like a Nintendo"
👵🏼“Yeah? Your cousin Ivan became a doctor. Why couldn’t you become a doctor?”
:stalin-bummed: ”ok mother I’m leaving now”
👵🏼“Yeah keep running away! That’s all you’re good at.”
:stalin-bummed: “Whatever happened to Koba? The strong, silent type? That was an Georgian.”
:chairman-moa-panic: ”you have strong feelings about this.”
"I'm the motherfucking fucking one who calls the shots" :chad-stalin:
