Quote Originally Posted by Brandy Blue View Post
A coup for kicks? Gotta hand it to those Apparatchiks. "Let's get the troops to shoot some people, heh? Big joke!"
Russian humor is very dark.

Somebody used the word "consensus" in this thread. I don't know who because I discarded everything else. The author's point may not have been to put forth a serious assertion, or to rewrite history, but to challenge mainstream thought and accepted paradigms.

Consensus = Stagnation of thought. It's good to shake things up a while.