rare stalin pics - with comments

[FAB]

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/img/27/0,1886,2124891,00.jpg
police file in Tiflis (Georgia)
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/img/13/0,1886,2124813,00.jpg
stalin like children, children like stalin
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/img/18/0,1886,2124850,00.jpg
stalin @ work
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/img/26/0,1886,2124890,00.jpg
stalin & lenin
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/img/25/0,1886,2125913,00.jpg
stalin check the rifle

[synthesis]

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/img/25/0,1886,2125913,00.jpg

Anyone notice a resemblance to a more contemporary figure?


I've recently materialized an observation I've been subconsciously making my whole life. Most of you probably thought of it much sooner than I did. Every picture I see of a well-known political leader tends to evoke a certain idiosyncratic feeling that can often be condensed into a single word.

With Stalin, that word is "jolly." Pretty antithetical to his actual behavior, but there you have it.

Perhaps I'll catalogue all of my labels one day. Others include:

Trotsky - "eccentric"
Lenin - "bad ass"
Mao - "arrogant"
Hitler - "fierce"
Mussolini - "inept"
Clinton - "sleazy"
Roosevelt - "drunken"
Churchill - "frumpy"
Mosley - "annoying"
Zapata - "unlucky"
Ho Chi Minh - "bad ass"
George W. Bush - "inept"

Oddly enough, the only figure who I absolutely cannot assign a word to, no matter how hard I try, is Che. He defies definition, I suppose. ;)

[commie kg]

Most of the pics of Stalin with Lenin are masterful edits. When Stalin came to power, he had Moscow's greatest artists edit pictures of Lenin with other people, and insert him instead. He wanted it to appear as if Lenin had meant for Stalin to succeed him all along.

[Zombie]

Anyone notice a resemblance to a more contemporary figure?

you mean him?

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/upload/0012_saddam.jpg

[Silent Eye]

Yes, everytime i see a picture of Stalin, i always get that "jolly" guy thing in my head. I always picture a red faced guy laughing hard.

Looks can be decieving.

[Nobody]

Great pics. I just finished a book about Stalins photo editors, wiht example. Some of their work was masterful in a sense, while in some cases it looked like a five year old scribbled over it with a marker. Out of sight out of mind I guess.

[nz revolution]

That pic of Saddam cracks me up. Should have a caption saying:

"Saddam threatening the United States with his weapon of mass destruction"

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Quote: from nz revolution on 4:28 am on June 1, 2003
That pic of Saddam cracks me up. Should have a caption saying:

"Saddam threatening the United States with his weapon of mass destruction"

LOL!!

Dyer, I'd have to dissagree with some of those.
Hitler does not look fierce, and Churchill does not look frumpy. The rest I can agree with.

[synthesis]

I suspect that each person's word assignments are different. ;)

Regardless, it's not a matter of whether or not Hitler 'looks' fierce. It's simply about the first word that comes to my mind. I think that 'frumpy' only really applies when I see him sitting in his chair next to Stalin and Roosevelt, i.e. later in his life. ;)

[the SovieT]

shit that kid on Stalin´s lap is ugly as shit...

shit now il have nightmares...

@nz revolution argh dont you see that sadam´s rifle can have small doses of chemical weapons that will be fired against poor american troops that are raping ugh i mean liberating Iraq?

[nz revolution]

I thought of that right after I posted it, that evil dictator is known to have hollow bullets with nerve gas inside so when it hits, the gas is released.

These Iraqis are sneaky, hiding chemical weapons in a 24hour petrol station and agricultural schools, and now in bolt action rifles!