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"Learning Russian gets you a job, Learning Georgian gets you access."
Common quote among Party officials during the Stalin era
October 25, 1917 (Old style)
Near the Winter Palace
Petrograd, Russia
I looked at the body in the car and felt the peculiar calm of a man whose life has, up to this...
"The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and our ideology of Marxist-Leninism is the sword and shield of the world's proletariat."
Excerpt from: Quotations from Chairman Stalin, published in 1930 by comrade Mikheil Jugashvilli
October 24, 1917 (Old style)
Outside Pravda
Petrograd, Russia
I...
"We never stopped clapping until Comrade Jugashvili stopped clapping. Sometimes it was ten seconds, sometimes 1 minute, once it was twenty minutes."
Excerpt from: Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics
October 13, 1917 (Old style)
Outside Mikheil's apartment
Petrograd, Saint Petersburg...
It all felt like a dream that would never end. Even now, I still find myself dreaming of those weekends at the estate on Zubalovo. I can still taste Uncle Mika's steaks, hear Papa's chess pieces clicking against the board as he played with my love Besarion, feel the cold water in the pool as I...
He was always there, whispering in Stalin's ear, sitting in at meetings. Every policy change, every execution, every purge, every military campaign, the war effort. Everything Stalin and the Politburo agreed on always had Mikheil's influence on it.
Excerpt from: Molotov Remembers: Inside...
July 3, 1917 (Old Style)
Okhta District
Petrograd, Russia
I leaned out of the apartment window, cigarette between my fingers, and watched the street move like a slow, obedient animal. I'd declared today my day off — technically — which is the luxury of being in charge: you may set your own...
June 18, 1917 (Old Style)
Nevsky Prospect
Petrograd, Russia
I offered a Bolshevik commissar the cigarette I'd been smoking and watched him take it like a small treat. He lit it without ceremony; the match hissed, the smoke folded into the June air, and for a moment Nevsky looked almost...
April 5, 1917 (Old Style)
Petrograd, Russia
Joe hunched over the table, scribbling like a man trying to outrun a deadline written by history. His face was a weird collage—shock, fear, the kind of giddy horror you get when someone tells you your favorite band is about to headline Armageddon. All...
March 12, 1917 (Old Style)
Petrograd, Russia
Evening in Petrograd can be stunning—if you ignore the armed men, food shortages, and occasional random gunshots. The twilight sky went crimson, bleeding across the clouds like a watercolor by someone who'd just been fired. Nice to look at...
Comrades
The story is being re-written, I have done a lot of research on the civil war and dates during the february and october revolution and have realized there's too many inconsistencies, and too much plot armor. So Mika is getting nerfed, and getting more consistent. He will remain insane...
December 8, 1907 (old style)
Tbilisi, Georgia
I woke up on the living room couch, stiff as hell, the kind of pain you only get from furniture designed by a sadist who hated vertebrae. Dawn was leaking through the window, painting the city in that scarlet glow that screams "romance" in Paris but...
November 11, 1918
Port of Vaasa
Vaasa, Finland
General Alfred Knox stood with General Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim and the Finnish general staff at the icy port of Vaasa as British ships unloaded the men and material he had promised. He watched without expression as cranes groaned and ropes...
November 1, 1918
Soviet Army Field Headquarters
Sunniemi, outskirts of Pori, Finland
Mikhail Tukhachevsky stood at the edge of the forward encampment, boots sunk into the half-frozen mud, cigarette smoke curling lazily around his sharp features as the thunder of artillery rolled across the...
July 15, 1906
Tiflis, Georgia
Russian Empire
I stepped out of the Svanidze house into the muggy Georgian air, casting one last look back at Keke and the others. They were bustling about inside like a pack of hens before a wedding feast, wringing hands, muttering blessings, smothering one...
Excerpt from a January 17, 1983 Interview with Ridley Scott, following the release of Blade Runner
Interviewer: Let's move to the next question, Mr. Scott. The city architecture itself, primarily in regards to the upper levels. Where exactly did you get your ideas from when designing the upper...