Oddbean new post about login | logout Threatening to kill him as “a bigger badder ass than you and you know it” sounds like Tito.
Tito was a horror in his own right, but I’m culturally predisposed to appreciate anyone who could muster credible threats of murder against Stalin. Not that I would want him next door to me either.
As I remember the west “liked” him, or could at least deal with him. There were major European and American brands available in the shops long before Pepsi made a deal to sell in Moscow under Nixon / Brezhnev. No, I would not want him in my neighborhood, especially when you consider how it all fell apart, and what happened in Serbia, Bosnia, etc since he died. A lot of resentment kept repressed by the prototypical iron fist.