Inspiration from Wikipedia

[coggon]

I have been considering getting some of the "Red Guard" figures from Brigade Games "Storm in the East" line to double duty in Finland and potentially the RCW.  While perusing the line, I noted the Trotsky-like figure in the command pack and thought I should find a use for him.  In an effort to gain more information, I consulted that unimpeachable source, ::  Wikipedia, and I found this inspiration:

"On May 24, 1940, Trotsky survived a raid on his home by Stalinist assassins led by GPU agent Iosif Grigulevich, Mexican painter and Stalinist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Vittorio Vidale.[citation needed]"

 

What could be more fun than Russians, Mobsters, and armed Mexican painters running around a plaza full of adobe buildings trying to evade bodyguards and assinate  someone?  ::

[Hammers]

Excellent idea. They did get him eventually, didn't they?

[Le matou rouge]

They did get him eventually, didn't they?

Yep, And by no one else than Alain Delon himself   :mrgreen:






meow,
Matt

[PeteMurray]

Excellent idea. They did get him eventually, didn't they?

That's what they want you to think.

[Le matou rouge]

That's what they want you to think.

But Alain Delon can't lie, He's the iconic Pravda incarnate.  



meow,
Matt

PS : Edit above for bad linking.

[PeteMurray]

In college, I got cornered by the campus political nutcase. He spent two hours monologuing me about how Trotsky had never been killed, but had signed a secret agreement with Stalin to exile himself to Switzerland and live out the rest of his life as... I don't know. Frankly, after 20 minutes, I would have agreed with him on anything if only to get him to go away.

That nutcase went from being a full-fledged, book-waving Maoist, to being a black-banner waving anarchist (he got interviewed by the media after the riots in Seattle; I doubt he did anything, but boy could he make himself heard), and the latest I heard was that he was some sort of Nazi Green living in a compound in West Virginia.