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
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?