How did Dzhugashvili get away with calling himself "the man of steel"? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Literally cannot fathom how he got away with something so corny. If anyone did this today they would get laughed out of the movement. How did he pull it off?

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[-] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lenin (river lena), Trotsky (his jailer's name), Molotov (the hammerer), Stalin/Koba, Kamenev (son of rock), Zinoviev (son of zinovi), che, tito, ho chi minh (lightbringer), yasser arafat, and subcomandante marcos are all adopted noms de guerre (French for war names). I don't fully understand it, but if you're a revolutionary you're allowed to give yourself a badass name to conceal your identity or become a legend

[-] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Honestly we should bring back this tradition. The PSL should have dudes called "The Mountain of Iron" and shit.

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