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Hours ago, on a website far away...
Them: I have this great idea for the next game in the franchise. The historical bit should be set in 1890s to 1900s Moscow, during Stalin's rise to power when he was killing all the anarchists... (goes on a bit, involving a modern day segment, also fights on ice skates involving hookblades).
Me: Interesting, but Stalin's rise to power was some time later. At the time you're talking about, he was really just a Bolshevik bandit stealing money to fund the party. Also, back then he was (by Bolshevik standards) a moderate who worked with revolutionaries of all kinds, something Lenin eventually reprimanded him for. So it might work better to have him an enigmatic figure in the historical section. That might make the modern day bit even more poignant, especially if the modern day protagonist was also a Georgian.
Them: That's cool, I can see how that would work. I can use that.
Me: But the basic idea is nice. I've long been fascinated by that period. Any chance of Nestor Makhno making an appearance?
Them: Who?
Me : (brief history of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine) He was quite something. He fought everybody - the Central Powers, the Red Army, the White Army... sometimes with the Red Army against the White Army...
Them: Oh, dang, the reds were the party Stalin was a member of, right?
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Oooookaaaayyy...
This isn't really epic, even if a bit WTF. Also, the kid was totally unfazed by any of it and is now busy adding "Young Stalin" and "10 days that shook the world" to his reading list, while expressing a fascination for communist/socialist history from over there on the other side of the Atlantic. And he wants to see a game where anarchists on ice skates assassinate Chekists, which would be quite epic and the world will be a better place if he goes on to run a video game company.
Still. Dang.