Posted on 04/12/2020 2:05:00 PM PDT by Rummyfan
On Friday, Twitchy, the daily catalog of, as Jonah Goldberg would say, the intellectual wet market that is Twitter, spotted an unusual technique invented by prolific libertarian tweeter “Neontaster” to smoke out Chinese government apparatchiks trying to pin the Wuhan Flu disaster on any nation but China:
Of course, they won’t do it; being discovered having mocked Fearless Leader Xi Jinping is a surefire invitation to the Chinese Gulag. But then, the penalty for laughing at those controlling a totalitarian socialist regime has always been thus:
Even those totally committed to the Soviet project were not safe. Card–carrying party members often shared ‘anekdoty’ (political jokes) with each other to air their frustrations with a regime that constantly fell short of its grandiose promises. In early 1934, Paraskovaya Pomelova, a party member in her late twenties, shared a joke with one of her colleagues:
"Stalin went for a swim in the River Neva and began to drown. A collective farmer was passing by and jumps in to save him. Back on shore, Stalin begins to ask the farmer what he’d like as a reward, but, realizing who he’s saved, the farmer interrupts: ‘Nothing! Just don’t tell anybody that I saved you!’"
Pomelova was arrested in 1937, at the height of Stalin’s purges, for the joke she had told three years earlier.
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I really enjoyed this flick.
You are not allowed to mock The Xi!
It is an epic movie. I enjoyed it immensely.
Saw it. ‘Twas quite good.
VERY good movie.
A reign of slapstick is more like it.
I do like slapstick.
This is an entertaining and funny movie. I highly recommend it.
Cool, saw this last night while browsing and wasn’t sure... but it appears that it’s got two thumbs up from Freepers....
I’ll watch it in the next day or two.
Standing slow-clap. Love that flick.
I’ll watch it in the next day or two.
Really funny dark humor movie based on historic fact and insider memoirs.
A perfect vignette for the protection of an unabridged 2nd Amendment.
It is a great movie.
Very funny movie. Jason Issacs as Zhukov stole the show.
Canceled my subscription to Obamaflix 6 months ago!
The full movie is available for free on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A57gNcOdduo&t=78s (2:52:33)
Right off the bat, Isaacs’ / Zhukov’s entrance about half-way through the movie, where he throws off his overcoat to reveal a uniform jacket so festooned with medals you wonder how he can move, sets the tone for his character. Then later I found out that the guys who made the movie actually *cut back* on the number of decorations on his outfit because the reality of his appearance seemed too outrageous (even for their satirical viewpoint). And you can find pictures of the real Zhukov that actually confirm that!
“I f****d Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a waistcoat.”
The guy who played Stalin’s son was good.
While I don’t care for his politics, I’ll pretty much watch anything with Steve Buscemi in it.
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