Modern phones are optimized for passive entertainment and no longer come with the necessary attachments to do real work like carpentry and harvesting wheat.
Damn I never realized he lived to be 74.
Still died too soon but that's a long life for his time/place/experiences.
Also given his age it seems like there should have been a better succession plan
Well the USSR was a democracy, not a monarchy. Malenkov became party head briefly because it was uncertain on how party Secretariat would be appointed, that's true. He would have been presumably who Stalin would have preferred. But the central Soviet didn't much care for Malenkov, so they formally elected Krushchev a few months later.
Yeah that's fair, my knowledge post WWII gets really fuzzy so I can't confidently critique what followed.
It's easy to claim things should have been done differently, in retrospect after the fall of the USSR. But it's not very useful without careful examination.
A great lesson to apply to all sorts of organizations. You actually have to put in time and effort to develop people and have someone capable and popular to hand projects over to.
Yeah tbh. After all he did and at his age, let him rest.
Plus he could still be an advisor to oversee a smoother transition period.
I'm old enough to know what it feels like to actually hang up on someone when you get pissed enough
I can only imagine smashing the whole phone with that hammer, hope they made a few replacement parts
I remember aggressively slamming the phone down after dealing with a shithead. Very satisfying. I haven't done that for over 20 years.
I wouldn't be surprised if Stalin put this in a display case or something, instead of actually using it as his phone.
I was recently at a restaurant, sitting at the bar, and some guy was having a heated argument on the phone and slammed his cellphone on the bar as he hung up. I thought he would regret that because he probably fucked up his phone. But, no, dude answered the phone again, yelled, hung up, and slammed his phone again two more times!
Truly the only loser, no matter the circumstances.
Maybe it's because I'm old and I didn't realize it but I don't think this would make you very old
(approvingly) Saturday morning cartoon villain telephone. The type of phone you use to order henchmen or blackmail the UN or get bad news and then crush the globe that holds the rotary
fucking hardcore. mind the sickle though when you pick it up. i hope they didn't sharpen it (it looks sharp!!)
