Stalin and Pipe Smoking

[kcghost]

To paraphrase Mel Brooks, "It's great to be the Tsar". It's actually hell on earth when one guy can literally off 10% of the country and nobody can complain.

 

[Casual]

A Stalin thread with the only pipe content being that he smoked them is more likely to devolve to a political one than an engaging pipe thread. Notwithstanding Tom’s valiant effort to toss in an extra tidbit of pipe content.

 

[mikethompson]

I have a few books on my 'next up' pile, and this is the cover shot of one of them:

 

[saltedplug]

Hmmm. . .he smoked Royal Yacht in Dunhills. An MO starts to emerge. Hm. . .During his tenure thousands perished outright or were sent to the Gulag, from which there was little chance of returning. Coulda been Stalin, even if he was a pipesmoker.

 

[cshubhra]

When I hear Stalin and Trotsky in the same thread my mind wanders off to George Orwell and his Animal Farm

 

[weezell]

I want to say something ? ? ? ? ?...Be good weez, don't do it...

 

[brian64]

Ok, ok, time to lighten things up a bit.

And there's even a pipe appearance in this one.

 

[telescopes]

When I hear Stalin and Trotsky in the same thread my mind wanders off to George Orwell and his Animal Farm

Or the yahoos on January 6. Fascism knows ideology but it’s own. It is the same with pipe and tobacco extremists who defend their own preferences at all costs over the preferences of others. This statement isn’t political nor am I stating any political preferences. The fact that Stalin smoked a pipe is as I as interesting as the fact that Hitler loved his mother. It is important to remember that the pipe does NOT make the man nor does enjoying straight Virginias make one a connoisseur of tobacco. Now back to my aromatic, ?

 

[tom12]

And I am fairly sure at least some of his pipes were Dunhills
eta: if he smoked Royal Yacht, no wonder he was a callous, murderer

Supposedly he actually crushed up the ends of his cigarettes and used those in his pipe.

 

[BrokenRecord]

Supposedly he actually crushed up the ends of his cigarettes and used those in his pipe.

To each his own; however, this is gross.

 

[saltedplug]

A free but very much badly informed electorate is the most ominous sign of a slide into Fascism.

 

[Sincerely]

Relevant to this thread: My dad likes to bargain hunt for wine at Grocery Outlet, and his local store has a really great wine buyer who will do things such as set aside wines she knows he likes before they sell out.

He got to talking to a neighbor, and it turns out this woman is Stalin’s grand-daughter. Yes, Stalin’s grand-daughter is a wine buyer for a Grocery Outlet in Portland, OR. It’s a small world we live in!

Are you in Portland proper or an outlying suburb?