“you know, that guy… Joey Steel. what’s his fuckin real name again?”
To be honest “Koba” is so much easier to remember than “Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili” or Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili" if you’re talking about a distant clandestine acquaintance.
Still funny though. Double so that they had to go down the comm line just to ask “dude what was your name again?”
Isn’t koba the name of the bad ape in planet of the apes
apparently there’s also a character that’s named bad ape in the series, what a fun coincidence.
also yes, koba is a character in one of those films
That was intentional. i looked it up when I found out the character had that name and it is meant to reflect the “revolutionary who goes too far”. because of course
Also, wasn’t Koba a georgian folk-character? Like it’s a name that was associated with Georgia, so at most not knowing his lastname would have gotten “Ioseb from Georgia” in trouble.
Also, wasn’t Koba a georgian folk-character?
A book character I believe. A knight of righteous vengeance I think if I remember the book summary correctly
it’s also a common nickname here for anyone named “Iakob”, the Georgian version of “Jacob”.
Extremely relatable, I have forgotten names much simpler than Jughashvili
In college people would always call me by my last name and one time a person I had known for like 2.5 years admitted he didn’t know my first name
I’ll only remember you all by username
Old Bolsheviks were severed confirmed
I feel this so hard…
Was he even going by Stalin yet? The “j___” makes it obvious he remembers being introduced to him as Jughashvili
zinoviev is a fucking opportunist and deserved what he got
WWI is happening and Lenin is doing the ‘WhAT’s ObAmA’s lAsT nAmE?’ Meme from 100 years in the future
