By namiks on Skatehive
Now don't expect a massive history lesson here. There's so much modern history to be unpacked surrounding this one small event that I have zero faith in my ability to correctly and respectfully run through it all here on Hive and in one post. But I'll try to summarise things in a way that it remains readable and interesting to everyone that is like me and likely has very little awareness of, well, anything from this region of the world. We all know of Stalin as a person within history. We all know about his contribution to defeating the Nazi's during the Second World War, as well as his participation in guiding the USSR forward over the span of three decades and leading up to its supposed golden age through the 1950s to the 1980s. But did you know that Stalin was such a fundamental pawn within the distribution of communist ideology throughout much of the world from the very start of the 1900s? In the early 1900s, within the small residential zone between Avlarbari and Isani in Tbilisi,