• Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    To be honest “Koba” is so much easier to remember than “Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili” or Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili" if you’re talking about a distant clandestine acquaintance.

    Still funny though. Double so that they had to go down the comm line just to ask “dude what was your name again?”

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        231 month ago

        apparently there’s also a character that’s named bad ape in the series, what a fun coincidence.

        also yes, koba is a character in one of those films

        • newacctidk [none/use name]
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          151 month ago

          That was intentional. i looked it up when I found out the character had that name and it is meant to reflect the “revolutionary who goes too far”. because of course

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      101 month ago

      Also, wasn’t Koba a georgian folk-character? Like it’s a name that was associated with Georgia, so at most not knowing his lastname would have gotten “Ioseb from Georgia” in trouble.

      • thetaT [none/use name]
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        71 month ago

        it’s also a common nickname here for anyone named “Iakob”, the Georgian version of “Jacob”.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        71 month ago

        Also, wasn’t Koba a georgian folk-character?

        A book character I believe. A knight of righteous vengeance I think if I remember the book summary correctly

  • LeninsBeard [he/him]
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    441 month ago

    In college people would always call me by my last name and one time a person I had known for like 2.5 years admitted he didn’t know my first name

  • newacctidk [none/use name]
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    201 month ago

    Was he even going by Stalin yet? The “j___” makes it obvious he remembers being introduced to him as Jughashvili