It’s gotta be the super mario man himself hailing from Georgia, Iosif Stalin.

  1. Wins against the nazis, doesn’t elaborate, leaves, USSR becomes the sugar daddy of the eastern bloc

  2. Has a really cool looking moustache. No wonder he gets parodied as Mario

  3. Literally outwitted his enemies by playing the “innocent secretary” and gaining power.

  4. Was highly respected and feared by his enemies

  5. Is still parodied and memes have spread of him by both tankies and non tankies alike

  6. Is in Red Alert 1

  7. Massive troll in pranking the other party members, he would throw bits of fruit into their drinks.

  8. Isn’t Hitler.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    If we’re going for “cool story” rather than “admirable person”, then the Byzantine emperor Justinian II.

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    For me, Stalin falls out of the cool category due to deaths under his leadership (about 3.3 million officially recorded victims).

    I have always enjoyed Alice Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter. She was brash, witty, at full of antics. Here’s an example: When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new first lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.

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    Thomas Sankara, revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, jamming on his guitar, 1980s.

    Having just carried out literacy campaigns across the country and vaccinated 2.5 million children free of charge… carrying out greening projects to curb the growing desertification in the Sahel, advocating women’s liberation and freedom and general improvements of women’s social status, alongside the nationalisation of land and mineral resources… then he played his stratocaster as he often did with his jazz band.

    Sorry but you’ll never be this cool.

    https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara

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    As a russian I’m saying: fuck Stalin and USSR. After Lenin it was seemed like Orwell’s antiutopia. And now Putler wants it back…