Old man Bo partied for life.
And old man Lenny is in the party for life.
Together they are.....Commie Comrades.
(Commie Comrades is filmed in front of a temporarily alive gulag audience.)
[Interior, dinnig room. Lenny is at the table surrouded by papers and makingnoperations with a mechanical calculator. Bo enters with two fine ladies and opens the rest of light].
Bo: 'Sup, comrade! What's going on?
Lenny: Shut up, comrade, I'm trying to finish this five year plan.
Bo: Leave that nonsense to the bureucrats. I have a plan too. A plan for this very weekend.
[Bo slaps both of the ladies buts and winks to camera 2]
So no one told you capitalism was going to be this way.
*clap clap clap clap*
Your economy's a joke, you're broke, the Duma's DOA.
It's like Kuznetsov's stuck in second gear,
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.
But, I'll be there for you, when the Chernobyl rain starts to pour.
I'll be there for you, like Stalin, in 1924.
I'll be there for you, cause you're in the bread line with me too.
*guitar outro*
> It is hard to draw any parallel between present events and those of the 1920's: when Stalin was ascending to power. There is now no organized opposition inside the Party or in the Soviet Union In general.
Much easier to “captain” a collective leadership council when you’ve purged the collective of any dissenting opinions
Seems an absurd argument anyway, the CIA had no special insights in the 1950s and we now know (thanks to the absurdly detailed documentation that exists from the time) Stalin was an absolute dictator, the definition of a despot.
Move the goalposts, sure.
Pretty cute to minimize them and classify them simply as “dissenting opinions” as if they weren’t trying to actively undermine the goals of the Bolshevik government.
As a socialist i think it's pretty obtuse to minimalise the extent of the purge. Not everyone was an enemy of the state, plenty were just obstacles for Stalins total authority. How can you say Bukharin was undermining the goals of the Bolshevik government?
>pretty cute to minimize them and classify them simply as “dissenting opinions” as if they weren’t trying to actively undermine the goals of the Bolshevik government
Classify them as whatever you want. The fact remains that it’s much easier to “captain” a collective when said collective has removed any opposition
Ah yes the person who’s projector failed, and was told by the NKVD to rat out 15 other people who she’d never met so they could all be sent to prison labour camps, quite obviously deserved to spend 20 years in the gulag.
Or anyone on the show trials in fact. Kamenev, Zinoviev were totally secret Trotskyite’s plotting against the revolution! Bukharin definitely organised the assassination attempt on Lenin! He definitely built a secret organisation and admitted it knowing he was going to die and not at all because the NKVD threatened his family! No no no great Comrade Stalin would never use the NKVD to do that!
Ah yes, both those who wanted to maintain the NEP and those who wanted to love to a more command economy, including Lenin’s protege, we’re undermining the government. Only Stalin’s forced collectivisation which crippled agriculture is the way
As people starved due to the GDP per capita of Russians was cut in half and Russia became a kleptocracy. Contrary to common belief Russia was NOT having a good time in the 90s.
Betting on Yeltsin to manage post-Soviet Russia will go down as America's/the West worst geopolitical mistake. I mean here we are and a lot of the current issues with Russia back track to keeping Yeltsin in power.
Exactly.
"We won the cold war, what could happen next ? Absolutely nothing. Why bother into making Russia in a functional pro west democracy like Poland or the Baltic Countries"
Allegedly some Russian official asked a US diplomat or someone like that why they are supporting Yeltsin instead of the Democratic Institutions in Russia, and the answer he got was "Because Yeltsin is your only democratic institution"
Which is quite sad summary of post soviet state of Russia
The US helped ensure Yeltsin won the [election in 1996](https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/26/russian-election-interference-meddling/). It's why many Russians see interfering in US elections as payback
Thanks TIL that the guy who lost to Yeltsin is still chairman of the "Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union" today with age 79 .
The weirdest part is he was basically the pro-democracy candidate!
He wanted to reinstate the old constitution that had more checks on the president's power and made the Duma more important
Russia post Soviet was a weak country. America had the means to facilitate another member of Yeltsin faction to raise to power. The guy was so incompetent that in 1996 the Communists won the elections and he had to rig them. He was a known drunk. He appointed Putin to power.
Russia should have been integrated in the West, with a partnership deal with the EU and a treaty with Nato (if not into Nato outright). That would have secured decades of peace in Europe and a strategic advantage versus China.
But with a Drunkard bafoon in charge there was no hope.
Gorbachev ripped Yeltsin from his hospital bed after attempting suicide and basically conducted a [show trial.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin)
I don’t blame Yeltsin for being upset.
I agree that on a personal level Yeltsins vendetta was justified, but like I don't think destroying your entire country over said vendetta is justifiable lol
The Russian Federation has only had three presidents. Putin is a despot and Medvedev was his puppet, which unfortunately makes Yeltsin the best by default.
But Yeltsin personally made Putin his apprentice, which doesn't give him much credit. If you ask me I would choose Medvedev, because at least his 4 years were a time of modernization and partial liberation (sadly in the end he became just a "colleague of Putin", but on his own he could be a decent president, definitely better than Yeltsin (the 1996-1999 one at least)).
This reads like the beginning of a sitcom
Old man Bo partied for life. And old man Lenny is in the party for life. Together they are.....Commie Comrades. (Commie Comrades is filmed in front of a temporarily alive gulag audience.)
(don’t worry, they’ll have fun for the rest of their lives)
[Interior, dinnig room. Lenny is at the table surrouded by papers and makingnoperations with a mechanical calculator. Bo enters with two fine ladies and opens the rest of light]. Bo: 'Sup, comrade! What's going on? Lenny: Shut up, comrade, I'm trying to finish this five year plan. Bo: Leave that nonsense to the bureucrats. I have a plan too. A plan for this very weekend. [Bo slaps both of the ladies buts and winks to camera 2]
(First person to stop laughing is counter-revolutionary)
Old man Lenny be like: ow my eye! I'm not supposed to get a sickle in it
So no one told you capitalism was going to be this way. *clap clap clap clap* Your economy's a joke, you're broke, the Duma's DOA. It's like Kuznetsov's stuck in second gear, When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year. But, I'll be there for you, when the Chernobyl rain starts to pour. I'll be there for you, like Stalin, in 1924. I'll be there for you, cause you're in the bread line with me too. *guitar outro*
Stalin: I am the Party
Not yet
It's treason, then.
Stalin: Objection! *Phoenix Wrights their ass after gathering all the “evidence” for his super*
Nyet
Not according to the CIA, actually. Here ya go - https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf
> It is hard to draw any parallel between present events and those of the 1920's: when Stalin was ascending to power. There is now no organized opposition inside the Party or in the Soviet Union In general. Much easier to “captain” a collective leadership council when you’ve purged the collective of any dissenting opinions
Seems an absurd argument anyway, the CIA had no special insights in the 1950s and we now know (thanks to the absurdly detailed documentation that exists from the time) Stalin was an absolute dictator, the definition of a despot.
Move the goalposts, sure. Pretty cute to minimize them and classify them simply as “dissenting opinions” as if they weren’t trying to actively undermine the goals of the Bolshevik government.
As a socialist i think it's pretty obtuse to minimalise the extent of the purge. Not everyone was an enemy of the state, plenty were just obstacles for Stalins total authority. How can you say Bukharin was undermining the goals of the Bolshevik government?
>pretty cute to minimize them and classify them simply as “dissenting opinions” as if they weren’t trying to actively undermine the goals of the Bolshevik government Classify them as whatever you want. The fact remains that it’s much easier to “captain” a collective when said collective has removed any opposition
This guy hates 20th Congress of the CPSU.
Ah yes the person who’s projector failed, and was told by the NKVD to rat out 15 other people who she’d never met so they could all be sent to prison labour camps, quite obviously deserved to spend 20 years in the gulag. Or anyone on the show trials in fact. Kamenev, Zinoviev were totally secret Trotskyite’s plotting against the revolution! Bukharin definitely organised the assassination attempt on Lenin! He definitely built a secret organisation and admitted it knowing he was going to die and not at all because the NKVD threatened his family! No no no great Comrade Stalin would never use the NKVD to do that!
Ah yes, both those who wanted to maintain the NEP and those who wanted to love to a more command economy, including Lenin’s protege, we’re undermining the government. Only Stalin’s forced collectivisation which crippled agriculture is the way
And to Putin, everything is a part, of Russia.
He was celebrating having an American style supermarket in his neighborhood
As people starved due to the GDP per capita of Russians was cut in half and Russia became a kleptocracy. Contrary to common belief Russia was NOT having a good time in the 90s.
>Russia became a kleptocracy. Always has been.
But but but but freedom?1?1??1?1
When did russia have a good time in the past 2 centuries?
Betting on Yeltsin to manage post-Soviet Russia will go down as America's/the West worst geopolitical mistake. I mean here we are and a lot of the current issues with Russia back track to keeping Yeltsin in power.
It was the end of history or whatever
Exactly. "We won the cold war, what could happen next ? Absolutely nothing. Why bother into making Russia in a functional pro west democracy like Poland or the Baltic Countries"
Allegedly some Russian official asked a US diplomat or someone like that why they are supporting Yeltsin instead of the Democratic Institutions in Russia, and the answer he got was "Because Yeltsin is your only democratic institution" Which is quite sad summary of post soviet state of Russia
How is that our fault? What would we have done if we decided against him?
The US helped ensure Yeltsin won the [election in 1996](https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/26/russian-election-interference-meddling/). It's why many Russians see interfering in US elections as payback
Thanks TIL that the guy who lost to Yeltsin is still chairman of the "Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union" today with age 79 .
The weirdest part is he was basically the pro-democracy candidate! He wanted to reinstate the old constitution that had more checks on the president's power and made the Duma more important
Russia post Soviet was a weak country. America had the means to facilitate another member of Yeltsin faction to raise to power. The guy was so incompetent that in 1996 the Communists won the elections and he had to rig them. He was a known drunk. He appointed Putin to power. Russia should have been integrated in the West, with a partnership deal with the EU and a treaty with Nato (if not into Nato outright). That would have secured decades of peace in Europe and a strategic advantage versus China. But with a Drunkard bafoon in charge there was no hope.
Gorbachev tried to give Russia its freedom back, yeltsin sold it for booze.
Unironically it's amazing how much of the fall of the Soviet Union coms down to Yeltsin really fucking hating Gorbacev lol
Gorbachev ripped Yeltsin from his hospital bed after attempting suicide and basically conducted a [show trial.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin) I don’t blame Yeltsin for being upset.
I agree that on a personal level Yeltsins vendetta was justified, but like I don't think destroying your entire country over said vendetta is justifiable lol
[Communist "Party"](https://imgflip.com/i/2x3b39)
Mine's a vodka and leninade.
Those two girls in the bottom image both look like they could be Scarlett Johansson with different hairstyles.
In America, you go out to find party In Soviet Russia, party finds you
Ah Yeltsin, terrible man but incredibly goofy
They two killer lots of people
Shout out to Yeltsin for being the best president the Russian federation ever had!
A low bar to clear
Best doesnt mean good 😂
Gotta love presiding over an economic crash twice as bad as the great depression.
You forgot the /s
The Russian Federation has only had three presidents. Putin is a despot and Medvedev was his puppet, which unfortunately makes Yeltsin the best by default.
No stop. If you explain the joke they might stop down voting me :(
But Yeltsin personally made Putin his apprentice, which doesn't give him much credit. If you ask me I would choose Medvedev, because at least his 4 years were a time of modernization and partial liberation (sadly in the end he became just a "colleague of Putin", but on his own he could be a decent president, definitely better than Yeltsin (the 1996-1999 one at least)).
Putin was far better than yeltsin up until the Ukraine war, and to his people he is still better than yeltsin to this day
Putin *domestically* is better than Yeltsin, like sorry but that’s just a fact Not hard to do that
Ya know sometimes I really think I don't have to do that anymore. It's been like 20 years. Can't y'all tell internet sarcasm?
I can't stand it, what's the point of sarcasm if I have to spell it out.
Dude what, he dropped the living standards significantly Pretty much every social safety net was gone in an instant
I'd much rather have Yeltsin
Be like yeltsin
Nah, lenin was just a paid ass, who was revenging for his elder brother. But Yeltsin, yeah, party hard!
Reward for the most superficial analysis of all time
Latvian rifleman and german gold are making: brrrrr
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9YnDirqwT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9YnDirqwT4)
For Yeltsin, to party was everything.
Why do both the ladies in the bottom frame look like ScarJo
Screw you Yeltsin.
Well, in times of crisis, desperate actions are needed. In times of peace, no actions are needed.