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January 24, 2007 5:43 PM

Stalin
posted by tellurian (37 comments total)

Accurate.
posted by The Deej at 5:47 PM on January 24, 2007

I am new to this. Isn't this where we are all supposed to complain?
posted by Slap Factory at 5:47 PM on January 24, 2007

I don't know why. But I love this website.
posted by tkchrist at 5:48 PM on January 24, 2007

No, this post is good. Let me show you my pokemans!
posted by mullingitover at 5:48 PM on January 24, 2007

You know who else had a bizarre website?
posted by Kwine at 5:54 PM on January 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

Kwine writes "You know who else had a bizarre website?"

Sigh. Yes.
posted by mullingitover at 5:56 PM on January 24, 2007

Okay, I give up. What is it?
posted by grobstein at 6:01 PM on January 24, 2007

It tries very hard not to make explicit sense but to contain as many contradictory cultural references as possible. I think it is what people call "post-modern art."
posted by bhouston at 6:02 PM on January 24, 2007

What is it?

A thing of beauty awesome. That's just what it is.
posted by grabbingsand at 6:05 PM on January 24, 2007

I'll pass, thanks.
posted by Vindaloo at 6:08 PM on January 24, 2007

Trippy. I especially like the "Party Music" section.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:11 PM on January 24, 2007

I don't know why. But I love this website.
posted by tkchrist

I know why. Because Stalin killed children.

heh
posted by The Deej at 6:19 PM on January 24, 2007

Stalin, Stalin, bo-balin, bo-nanna fanna fo-falin, fi-mi-mo-malin...Stalin!

Hitler, Hitler, bo-bitler, bo-nanna fanna fo-fitler, fi-mi-mo-mitler...Hitler!^*

Chuck, Chuck, bo-buck, bo-nanna fanna fo--uh-oh

^* Back in the pre-web Usenet days, I made up the Nazi Name Game (von Ribbentrop is a ball-buster) and people got enraged that I made fun of the Nazis instead of taking them very, very seriously.
posted by kirkaracha at 6:41 PM on January 24, 2007

It's well put together, and I really don't understand it at all. Which I totally groove.

Nobody better explain this to me.
posted by krippledkonscious at 6:42 PM on January 24, 2007

I have no idea where to click to get something interesting or useful.

So it's kinda like Metafilter. I dig it.
posted by Cyrano at 6:42 PM on January 24, 2007

I'm not really big on Stalin, but I actually really like the design feel. If only it was a little less... oh, I don't know... Stalin-y?
Hmmm... needs more Tito. And perhaps a sprinkle of Mussolini with a side of Chairman Mao...
posted by miss lynnster at 6:46 PM on January 24, 2007

Pretty amazing design. I'm impressed with the amount of work that went in to it, even if I am unable to devine the why.
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:49 PM on January 24, 2007

It's like a soviet themed superbad.
posted by boo_radley at 7:02 PM on January 24, 2007

Yet again liberals fail to condemn Stalin.
posted by Artw at 7:10 PM on January 24, 2007 [2 favorites]

Check out their other work [careful - some NSFW].
posted by tellurian at 7:18 PM on January 24, 2007

Who does not afraid of hidden meaning and stay alive, just go! This the soviet mysteries of 30ths !!!
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:28 PM on January 24, 2007

I'm too tired to try and figure out sites like this anymore. There's no pay off anyway.

-points for design tho..
posted by Parannoyed at 7:43 PM on January 24, 2007

Brother and I were just discussing Stalin the other day, in the context of who would be the best actor to get for the definitive blowjob biopic; I vote for Tom Selleck.
posted by adoarns at 7:51 PM on January 24, 2007

Mmmmm. Stalinicious!
posted by miss lynnster at 7:54 PM on January 24, 2007

So this light-grey font on a slightly darker-grey background thing, was that one of Stalin's favorite torture methods?
posted by c13 at 7:55 PM on January 24, 2007

Stalin-rific?
posted by The Deej at 8:27 PM on January 24, 2007

A Soviet Laibach (but of course)
posted by stbalbach at 8:34 PM on January 24, 2007

I noticed that the A is upside down on the first page. It's like they're trying to make fun of the way people try to Russianize a word by making some of its letters backwards.
Is the party music by Stalin himself?
posted by Count at 8:53 PM on January 24, 2007

Y'know what this webpage needs? More cowbell!
posted by grapefruitmoon at 11:43 PM on January 24, 2007

(Or this. This is pretty great.)
posted by grapefruitmoon at 11:44 PM on January 24, 2007

(Sorry, me again.

Also pretty great: breakfast.)
posted by grapefruitmoon at 11:46 PM on January 24, 2007

A delmoi!!
posted by tellurian at 6:23 AM on January 25, 2007

Жить стало лучше - жить стало веселее!

Life has become better, life has become merrier!
posted by languagehat at 6:33 AM on January 25, 2007

Greatest mystery how reading text that is c0c0c0 being against c1c1c1.
posted by lodurr at 7:33 AM on January 25, 2007

I feel like one of us should drive over to this guy's house and see if he's alright.

I stole that quote from someone, but I can't remember who.
posted by Football Bat at 10:25 AM on January 25, 2007

languagehat, that's only one out of the many bad translations
posted by vodkadin at 2:40 PM on January 25, 2007

Oh, sure, but I wasn't correcting their translation (which I didn't even notice at first), just expressing my joy in an appropriately Stalinoid way, and translating for the benefit of those few MeFites not fluent in the great and mighty Russian tongue.
posted by languagehat at 4:52 PM on January 25, 2007