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I'll start.

1: An old Italian veteran of the communist movement

2: Gus Hall

3: William Z. Foster.

4: J.V Stalin.

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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Breaking: Man who desecrated JV Stalin grave was allegedly trying to win internet contest

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago
[–] HalidBeslic@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)
  1. Neighbourhood Babushka
  2. Tito
  3. Stalin
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

tito-laugh Yugoslavia stay winning!

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)
  1. A friend

  2. Her grandfather, a recipient of the Stalin Prize

  3. J.V. Stalin

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Friend’s parent met Fidel

Fidel met Khrushchev

Khrushchev met Stalin

So, four. I think.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Woah you got the Cuba Libre route!

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think Fidel met a ton of Americans during his visit(s) to the USA.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

That means plenty of opportunities for Americans to be close to uncle Joe

[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

I'm very close to this. My friend met Che's daughter, so I'm at 5, because we add one more.

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)
  1. Without providing too much personal info, I’m connected to Golda Meir, who was Israel’s USSR ambassador in the 50s.
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

Now that sounds like some fun history

[–] axont@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
  1. Person I met at a concert

  2. Concert person's grandmother was a Chinese neuroscientist and received some kind of science prize

  3. Mao Zedong

  4. Stalin

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Stalin shook my hand, liberals.

[–] moondog@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  1. george bush
    idk how far george bush is from stalin columbo-donk
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How the devil did you meet a bush?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I met Poppy Bush once since he came to my middle school to do a speech. Maybe it was something like that.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Probably

Bush Sr.

Mao Zedong

Stalin

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

15+ at least due to the nature of the exercise i wouldn't rule it out entirely but i have no idea how

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

1: Alex Trebek

3: Pierre Trudeau

4: Nikita Khrushchev

5: Stalin

I'm not totally sure that Tebek and Trudeau shook hands ever, but they were both active in public facing roles in Ottawa at the same time.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

The maple syrup route, I see

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

1: Joe Biden

2: Jimmy Carter

3: Brezhnev

4: Khrushchev

5: Stalin

I’m like 95% sure there’s a shorter path in there I just don’t know who those people actually met

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

I want to say there may be a shorter connection via Biden and his handshake with Anwar El-Sadat of Egypt to some Soviet official to Stalin, but I'm not sure either

[–] ped_xing@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Piggybacking on your Carter link but through Robin Williams or Al Franken.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Looks like Brezhnev met with Stalin in 1952, so you can skip over Khrushchev

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you met Biden, it's basically:

  1. Biden

  2. Some career politician who was around during FDR/Eisenhower's administration. Biden is a shameless sycophantic career politician, so there's a 100% he would've sucked up to some ancient politician who personally worked with FDR or Eisenhower.

  3. FDR/Eisenhower

  4. Stalin

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

4 possibly 5. My grandpa via Georgi Dimitrov to Stalin

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

CommiePOGGERS ties to our Bulgarian anti-fascist supersoldier!

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm two steps from Kollontai, so it can't be that far off.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

It's possible that she never directly met with Stalin, but she definately interacted directly with Molotov.

[–] LocalMaxima@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Just guessing that these people probably shook hands: Lt Governor > Senator from state during Lt Gov’s term > direct predecessor in Senate who was in office during FDR’s terms > FDR > Stalin

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Without identifying info, I had a great-uncle in the Panthers; so probably 5~9 shakes?

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a lot less than 9 shakes since from Huey, it's Huey > Zhou Enlai > Stalin.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Thing is I have no idea how many Bacons from Huey my uncle was; hence the padding room. He wasn't the self-aggrandizing type, and only told those stories maybe once or twice.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

I shook hands with a few old Panthers so I'm going with this answer as well

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago
[–] context@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

no more than 5, i would guess. i once shook hands with a career diplomat, a professional hand-shaker of the geopolitical elite if there ever was one. they certainly shook hands with albright, powell, and rice, and any one of them could've shaken hands with someone who shook hands with stalin, so maybe as little as 4.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Idk but i'd guess fewer than ten.

Also looooooooooool i gaurantee you that the general population is not five kevin bacons away from Stalin. Hahahahahahahahahahahah

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
  1. Some local politician who was in the same room when I gave some presentation

  2. Some Congresswoman

  3. Ancient Congressman named John Dingell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dingell

  4. Eisenhower (Eisenhower's and Dingell's terms overlap and they've almost certainly would've rubbed shoulders at least once. Plus, it's extraordinarily unlikely Dingell would've skipped all 6 State of the Union addresses Eisenhower would've given)

  5. Stalin

Edit:

I suddenly remember being in the same room as Stephen Hawking one time. If being in the same room without having that person acknowledge your existence counts, it's

  1. Stephen Hawking

  2. Queen Elizabeth II

  3. George Marshall

  4. Stalin

[–] BanjoBolshevik@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Guy in my country's national parliament -> Kissinger -> Mao -> Stalin

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think 3: My grandpa, FDR, Stalin.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Based grandpa

[–] sawne128@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think I'm three from Putin. So maybe five or six that route.

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