ITT silly pictures of historical figures

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>>1940258
Bukharin was a goof

>>1940258
I have only ever seen two people roll cigarettes like that. Bukharin and my mates da.

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>>1940258
Filipino nationalist figures high on opium.

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>>1940904
William Howard Taft, future US President, then governor of the Philippine Islands. On a water buffalo.

>>1940908
Didn't realize pigs could ride other animals.

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>>1940258

>>1940258
Based Bukharin

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>>1940258
Excellent thread

>>1940885
Wasn't Stalin known for sometimes being a bit goofy and playful?

>>1940911
hes a majestic walrus

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Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke
(Second from the left)

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And again...

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again.

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Here he is drinking 1.4 litres of beer in just 11 seconds, an Oxford record.

And a short clip of him drunkenly excusing anyone who ditched work to celebrate our first America's Cup win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB0WvpiUA_I

>>1940896
Maybe Bukharin IS your friend's dad?

>>1940908
Do you think he ever fucked a Filipina?

>>1940952
That was the early Stalin.

>>1941087
He looks like the nth lonely 40-60something American Sex Tourist here so yeah.

>>1940952
Stalin was known to be a goofy asshole before becoming a dictator, upon which he took on a more sober and paternalistic persona

>>1940952
Oh yeah. He liked playing with kids, drinking a bit and having a good time with friends, joking around, etc.

But the keyword here is: sometimes.

And like the others pointed out, as he aged, that became less so. Especially as he got near the end of his life, he became much more bitter, paranoid, and secluded.

>>1940274
>dat fupa

>>1940908
Apple pie

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>>1940258

>>1940914
What is he 2?

>>1943372
those floyd mayweather antics

>>1940952
No

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Willy and Nicky

>>1943372
GABAGOOL/10

>>1940952
>Wasn't Stalin known for sometimes being a bit goofy and playful?

At this time, the aging leader rarely called Politburo meetings. Instead, much of the high-level work of government took place at dinners hosted by Stalin. These sessions, which Beria, Malenkov, Khrushchev, Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Nikolai Bulganin, who comprised Stalin's inner circle, attended, began with showings of cowboy movies favored by Stalin.[93] Stolen from the West, they lacked subtitles.[93] The dictator had the meal served at around 1 a.m., and insisted that his subordinates stay with him and drink until dawn. On one occasion, Stalin had Khrushchev, then aged almost sixty, dance a traditional Ukrainian dance. Khrushchev did so, later stating, "When Stalin says dance, a wise man dances."[93] Khrushchev attempted to nap at lunch so that he would not fall asleep in Stalin's presence; he noted in his memoirs, "Things went badly for those who dozed off at Stalin's table."

>>1942366
>alzheimerpatientthinksheisapresident.jpg

>>1940952
course he was

>Stalin reads his report to the Party Congress. Suddenly someone sneezes. "Who sneezed?" Silence. "First row! On your feet! Shoot them!" They are shot, and he asks again, "Who sneezed, Comrades?" No answer. "Second row! On your feet! Shoot them!" They are shot too. "Well, who sneezed?" At last a sobbing cry resounds in the Congress Hall, "It was me! Me!" Stalin says, "Bless you, Comrade!"

>>1944212
>xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa

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>>1944192
>>1944212
What a fuckin madman, not for killing all those people but for shit like this

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>>1944281
I mean it really must be genetic?

it's like straight out of gabagool

>>1943557
that is pretty adorable.

>>1940952
De Gaulle said Stalin had the best sens of humor

>>1943372
>>1944281
He was over-the-top on purpose

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>>1940258

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Got a tonne of tsar nick

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>>1944192
>"Things went badly for those who dozed off at Stalin's table."
This sounds like he either gulag'd them or drew all over them with permanent marker and had someone take photographs.

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>>1946169
Tsar Nicks natural state is sexy aloofness

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>>1946182
This makes me sad when I'm thinking how he ended

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>>1946202
He seemed like a fun loving guy, even if he was a bit tyrannical towards his people I don't think he deserved the savage death he had.

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>>1946202
;_;

>>1942366
Looks pretty comfy, to be honest.

>>1940952
He was very affable, of course.
In 1939 during border negotiations with Finns he just walked around cracking jokes and pleasantries. Then he would make harsh ultimatums, sometimes knowing full well they might not be met.

Then in 1940 when the Winter War was concluded he congratulated Finland when attending the peace negotiations.

>>1944095
I love how they switched uniforms.

>>1942366
Trying to be hip with the 80s fashion

>>1946243
Apparently at Yalta, Churchill was all like

>why don't we just take 100 of the top Nazi leaders into a forest somewhere, shoot them, and be done with it

And then Stalin was all like

>why not the top 100,000

And FDR freaked out and left the room, until somebody managed to convince him it was a joke.

>>1946209
>even if he was a bit tyrannical towards his people
As I recall (at least based on what my mother said about Russia and schooling there), it was less that *he* was tyrannical, but more that his ministers were a bunch of dicks. What she (and my grandmother) always told me, was that *he* was well liked by the general population, but they also believed the revolution was necessary to oppose the awfulness that was what his ministers were doing.

tl;dr My Russian mother and granny said everyone liked him, but fucking hated his tyrannical administration and ministers, who were cunts.

>>1946778
Well in the book "The Rising Sun" by John Toland there is a similar story. Difference was it was Stalin and FDR making jokes and Churchill running out. It was the meeting between the big three in Persia, just before D-Day. Joseph Stalin made a joke that they had to kill 50,000(or 100,000 I don't remember which one) at least in the invasion. Churchill was shock and horrified by this. FDR than said there should be compromise and that only 49,999 Germans should be kill(99,999 if the number was 100,000). Churchill did not get the joke and walked out of the room.

>>1940947
I feel like this would be perfect with an "abandon thread" caption.

>>1946202
You can be handsome but still evil

>>1944237
Has this ever been confirmed to be real?

>>1941010
Me on the second right.

>>1946169
Bummer they had to end him.

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>>1947346
'Twas

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>>1946216

>>1947006
>evil

Few in history are just evil. People simply don't work like that.

Threads like this just prove that those names we read about were complex people with likes, dislikes, favorite activities, friends, family. They were human. They lived.

And its surreal to see snapshots of their lives, candid glimpses into the people they really were underneath the circumstances and the titles. Knowing the ending of those stories can be sad once you start finding things you can relate to.

t. an overly sentimental /his/ fag

>>1943372
That was just his style.

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The man being held by the soldier had just slapped Tojo on the head in this picture.

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>>1946179
I think he'd draw all over your face take photos then gulag you and edit you out of the photos

>>1944212
what if the sneezer was in the second or first row

>>1943557
i assume it was a women filming yes

in which case based

>>1943372
There was this one crazy kid in high school who loved WW 1 and 2 related stuff (even collected items, weapons, cloths, etc) and I swear to you he had the same facial expressions like Mussolini.

He had a longer skull, though - but still: every time I see this gif I remember that dude.

>>1947006
fuck off kike

>>1946202
they shit the bed killing the nobility, basically confirmed the world's suspicions that reds were villains, all the way until the collapse in 1991

>>1940952
>it was all a prank bro

>>1942366
The sad truth is that he was literally fucking insane and retarded and that is probably the case of this picture, probably didn't realize his pants were up to his tits.

As in, literally. He suffered from severe Alzheimers throughout his presidency.

To get him to understand policy, they had to get the explanation of the policy made into a childrens cartoon and only after that would he sign off on it.

He would routinely, in meetings and even in public, mix up movies and real life, famously with the MX missile program, mixing it up with the movie Wargame. As in, he stood there, and literally just repeats to everyone the entire fucking plot of Wargame when he's supposed to be explaining the new missile program.

He would literally just fall asleep, on live TV when talking as well and drool all over himself like a retard. Famously doing this while meeting the fucking Pope.

In general he was just a giant fucking spaz as well. One of his top advisors said and I'm paraphrasing "It's a hard job watering the vast desert between Reagan ears"

In reality, the President in the Reagan era was his top advisor, a guy called Don Regan, and his wife Nancy Reagan, who btw, was getting policy ideas from a psychic who claimed to get them from communicating with the dead.

This is Ronald Reagan, the man the Republican Party holds up as the the greatest leader the world has ever seen.

>>1946179
The way you could tell Stalin's mood apparently was how he held and smoked his pipe. This is how Zhukov got away with talking shit about Stalin to his fucking face all the time. Because he knew perfectly how to read Stalin and knew when Stalin would take it as a joke or take it as a insult, which would likely be deadly.

>when Stalin drew deeply on his tobacco pipe, it was a sign of a good mood. Conversely, if Stalin failed to light his pipe once it was out of tobacco, it was a sign of an imminent outburst

>>1948241
>everyone who disagrees with me is Jewish

>>1946793
Take this with a grain of salt.

"The tyrant was okay, but his government was mean!" is an argument raised against every autocrat. While it's certainly possible that Nicholas II and Stalin and Bashar Al-Assad have better intentions than the actions of their agents suggest, they still allowed these agents to enact brutal violence on their populations.

>>1944192
>Ywn attend an all-night life-or-death drinking session with Stalin

>>1946202

>What? What?

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>>1942366
During the Iran-Contra trials, he claimed he "Could not recall", 52 times, and pleaded the 5th four times.

At the time, I thought it was all a pathetic ruse and legal strategy... Little did we know.

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Not seen this classic in awhile... Bit too soon though.

>>1942371
fucking based

>>1943372
All Italians love exaggerated body language, everyone knows that

>>1948079
he survived

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%ABmei_%C5%8Ckawa

>>1948431
Good fucking post

>>1948431
sauce

>>1940908
poor buffalo

>>1944237
>*teleports behind jew*

>>1948431
I think the issue isn't the Republicans but that the Democrats can't appear to field a candidate better than a literal retard.

>>1940908
/r/fatpeoplehate
#walmartmobilityscooters

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Picture of Nigel Farage vaping

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Mao, showing off his benis

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Leonid Brezhnev kissing Erich Honnecher on the mouth

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Deng Xiao Ping, at a Texas Rodeo

>>1943372
>>1944281
I don't mean this in a "le fuck drumpf" way but Mussolini and Trump seem so similar in their personalities

>>1944237
kawaii

>>1948079
the absolute madman

>>1940952
He was about 5"5' and had a high pitched voice with a Georgian accent.

I think he had to be a little goofy.

>>1949395
>Shūmei Ōkawa (大川 周明 Ōkawa Shūmei?, December 6, 1886 – December 24, 1957) was a Japanese nationalist, Pan-Asian writer, indicted war criminal,
>and Islamic scholar.

I'm not trying to draw a correlation between the two, it's just that it caught me a little off-guard which I think it rather funny.

>>1952483
>5ft5
Practically a basketball player in Russia in the 40s and 50s.

>>1940914
>back to the taps

>>1951268
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting

>>1946169
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>>1946704
>>1947476

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>>1948431
He also confused his military films during the war for actual combat experience according to one aide who was briefing him on a visit with WW2 veterans.

>>1951237
As opposed to the religious cancer plaguing American conservative politics?

>>1952717
Still better than your progressive neo-liberals.

>>1952719
>my

Liberals can be deluded, but US conservatives are absolutely retarded. The fact the religion still influences American politics in 2016 is baffling.

>>1952733
The fact that feelings rather than facts still influence American politics in 2016 is baffling.

>>1952763
Yes, exactly, conservatives' personal feelings about and relating to their religion.

>>1952766
I'm still wondering if you're pretending to be retarded or actually are. Religion is basically a non issue and doesn't influence that much, while on the other hand liberal policies like bathroom policies/tranny shit affect majority of people.

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Here's Gorby

>>1944237
While you were killing the Kulaks I was studying the blade...

>>1948237
Eva Braun filming.

>>1952682
Aw shit, nostalgia truck coming in.

Aren't they turning this into a musical btw?

>>1944281
YOU SPIN A DA PIZZA LIKA DIS

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silly Fritzl. Might not be /his/ though..

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>obligatory Lennon walk post

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You live in a matriarchy lead by pic related

What is wrong with this world

>>1953680
who is this supposed to be john and kate +8?

>>1946914
Churchill was quite witty, he would have noticed atleast FDR obvious joke

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>>1951300
What, is good old BRITISH cigarettes not good enough for him?

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Brezhnev swimming

>>1948431
all of a sudden, I feel a lot more at peace with the Don

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Theodore Roosevelt

>>1953933
Cool robes, I want one

>>1948431
>That asspain

>>1943557
Hitler wasn't a monster, I wish someone would compile something that shows his humanity.

>>1954132
I agree. That being said, he was evil by most definitions including my own. People painting him as an inhuman monster can't accept that humanity was capable of doing what he did, and I feel that that is a very dangerous idea to foster.

>>1948254
>The (((Reds))) killed Nicholas

>Pyotr Yermakov
>Evno Azef
>Yakov Yurovsky
>Vera Figner

Guess the Nicholas' and his cabinet's assassin's ethnicity

>>1954158
It is pretty knows who was [[[Nicky]]] the cousin of [[[Willy]]], anon.

>>1954170
They're Jews man. I wasn't talking about the Royal families cross-nation bloodlines.