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[smjjames]

Sicily is not a nation, no... And I was thinking of modern Western Europe, to be honest

Else we might as well include Mussolini, the Russian Tsar, maybe Stalin...

Stalin died of a heart attack, not assassinated, and I am looking at post WWII.

Looking at politicians that are not heads of state, the only ones post WWII that are remotely familiar or known (to me at least) are Louis Montbatten and Boris Nemtsov.

[Bouchart]

How many European heads of state/government have been assassinated in the post-war period anyway? AFAIK there was only Olof Palme...

Does Nicolae Ceaușescu count?

[Strife26]

Spanish president getting punched in the face by some guy

The second best punching video I've seen, I think.

[Flying Dice]

Sicily is not a nation, no... And I was thinking of modern Western Europe, to be honest

Else we might as well include Mussolini, the Russian Tsar, maybe Stalin...

Stalin died of a heart attack, not assassinated, and I am looking at post WWII.

So he was assassinated by entropy? Poor personal habits may have also participated in the daring act.

[Culise]

Sicily is not a nation, no... And I was thinking of modern Western Europe, to be honest

Else we might as well include Mussolini, the Russian Tsar, maybe Stalin...

Stalin died of a heart attack, not assassinated, and I am looking at post WWII.

So he was assassinated by entropy? Poor personal habits may have also participated in the daring act.

Aye.  His habit of arresting and/or killing anyone who looked at him funny, including some hundreds of doctors in the months before his death (on charges of conspiracy to assassinate Soviet leaders, no less), meant that no one was willing to risk arrest and execution in order to check on him when he did not come out of his room at dawn as was his usual wont.  The only person to dare did so only in the late evening, after which he had likely been suffering the aftereffects of a stroke and internal hemorrhaging for at least 12-18 hours.

[scriver]

Heh. How ironic. More horrible people should have their sins punish themselves like that.

[Helgoland]

Also there's this conspiracy theory that he was poisoned by Beria - but yeah, a stroke is much more likely. Beria survived him, after all.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

He survived him to get shot in a basement!

[Dorsidwarf]

Who's beria?

[SirQuiamus]

Heinrich Himmler: Soviet Edition.

[Sergarr]

Who's beria?

IIRC internal affairs minister or something analogous to that

he organized Soviet nuclear project during the time when the country was invaded by Nazis, which is not an easy task

he was pretty effective at his role, which is why many people today invoke his name (or Stalin's) whenever they see our corrupt officials being corrupt, implying that all these corruptioneers would've get what they deserve (that is, getting shot) if Beria was still here

[SirQuiamus]

...many people today invoke his name (or Stalin's) whenever they see our corrupt officials being corrupt, implying that all these corruptioneers would've get what they deserve (that is, getting shot) if Beria was still here

That's pretty mental, m8.

[martinuzz]

WTF Poland.

The new rightwing Polish government has used military force to remove the head of a NATO centre in Warsow, and replaced him with a friend of the political party. This was part of a series of events where the new government of prime minister Beata Szydlo is actively putting loyalists into power in important places.

First time ever since NATO was formed, that a NATO structure was assaulted on NATO grounds, by a NATO member.

This could mean Poland getting kicked out of NATO.

Start embracing your new Russian overlords, my Polish friends.

[andrea]

The new rightwing Polish government has used military force to remove the head of a NATO centre in Warsow, and replaced him with a friend of the political party.

what.

what is that move even supposed to do?

[martinuzz]

The government said "it was nescessary, because we fired that guy (colonel Krzysztof Dusza)  last week, but he refused to go"

Ever since the party got into power this november, they have been firing government officials and judges that had been appointed by the previous governments, and replacing them with loyalists.