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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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?"

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days 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

[–] thetaT@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

it's also a common nickname here for anyone named "Iakob", the Georgian version of "Jacob".

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't koba the name of the bad ape in planet of the apes

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days 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

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 63 points 2 days ago

"you know, that guy... Joey Steel. what's his fuckin real name again?"

[–] newacctidk@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

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

[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 56 points 2 days ago

Extremely relatable, I have forgotten names much simpler than Jughashvili

[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days 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

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago

I'll only remember you all by username

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

WWI is happening and Lenin is doing the 'WhAT's ObAmA's lAsT nAmE?' Meme from 100 years in the future

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago

Old Bolsheviks were severed confirmed

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago
[–] D61@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

I feel this so hard...

[–] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

zinoviev is a fucking opportunist and deserved what he got