BBC article - 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place

[Guest chunky]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21859771

 

Just saw this on the bbc's website. Quite an interesting article about all the troublesome people who lived in Vienna in 1913. Fate or what? Just an attractive city for revolutionary minded people? Funny to think of these people relaxing and drinking coffee with their friends, then years later they would be transformed into the world's biggest butchers and murderers? (except Freud who damaged specific institutions rather than murder people)
Wonder what it would have been like to meet these people for coffee when they were still young, just before the horrors of WWI.

 

 

 

 

[triachus]

Wonder what it would have been like to meet these people for coffee

i'm sure you do

[LimpyLoo]

I wonder what Stalin's poop tasted like

[delet...]

I wonder what Stalin's poop tasted like

 

banker iou's

[Guest chunky]

100 years ago!

[MadameChaos]

Must have been something in the coffee. Evil coffee.

[LimpyLoo]

Must have been something in the coffee. Evil coffee.

 

please stay on topic

 

 

i bet Hitler's poop had an oaky bouquette with chunks of raisin in it

[MadameChaos]

 

Must have been something in the coffee. Evil coffee.

 

please stay on topic

 

 

i bet Hitler's poop had an oaky bouquette with chunks of raisin in it

 

 

It is YOU who is off topic Limpy.

 

Were they Costa or Starbucks?

[LimpyLoo]

 

 

Must have been something in the coffee. Evil coffee.

 

please stay on topic

 

 

i bet Hitler's poop had an oaky bouquette with chunks of raisin in it

 

 

It is YOU who is off topic Limpy.

 

Were they Costa or Starbucks?

 

 

Eww that's so gross you're wondering what kind of raisins were in Hitler's poop? Dude that's so gross

[MadameChaos]

 

 

 

Must have been something in the coffee. Evil coffee.

 

please stay on topic

 

 

i bet Hitler's poop had an oaky bouquette with chunks of raisin in it

 

 

It is YOU who is off topic Limpy.

 

Were they Costa or Starbucks?

 

 

Eww that's so gross you're wondering what kind of raisins were in Hitler's poop? Dude that's so gross

 

 

You made me wonder Limpy, YOU MADE ME!!! *imagines Hitler taking a shit* EW!!!

[mcbpete]

I thought this was going to be the premise of a new BBC sitcom....

[triachus]

I thought this was going to be the premise of a new BBC sitcom....

 

Heil Honey I'm Home was a sitcom in 1990 about the fictionalized lives of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun as if they were living in an apartment and acted like any old husband and wife. They must also avoid the crazy antics of their Jewish neighbors, the Goldsteins.

 

This show is famous for having only 1 epsiode before it was eventually pulled from TV stations.

[MadameChaos]

Two words for that. Wasted oppurtunity!

[johnnix]

It's quite fascinating really when you think about it.

We could be drawing comparison to nowadays (Davos anyone...?) but I guess poop jokes are more interesting?

[Soloman Tump]

25 years from now the regulars of chatmm will be in a similar situation, dictators and the like. You mark my words.

[Friendly Foil]

25 years from now the regulars of chatmm will be in a similar situation, dictators and the like. You mark my words.

2cool4chatmm

[marf]

if you killed hitler would you kill just as many people as he did by preventing survivors from going on to new lives and having children with different people? kill meaning prevent from existing

[Guest theSun]

interesting article

 

i wish they were somehow able to find more accounts of these influential people chatting at lunch

[Guest No Pomo]

Too lazy to look up source, but It's rumored Karl Marx and the DaDaist founders used to all go to the same Coffee shop in Berlin at one point.

[dr lopez]

i mean vienna was essentially the center of the universe from about 1900-1920 lol