Posted on 04/18/2013 2:04:29 PM PDT by Borges
A century ago, one section of Vienna played host to Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Boyz in da hood............
Where’s Satan’s house?
Sounds like the basis for a great movie
Give someone a time machine, a .45, and a map of 1913 Vienna, and they could solve all of the world’s problems for the next 100+ years.
Yes, and sublet an apartment above a bar.
You don’t include Freud in that I hope.
Bookmark for later.
What a great idea.
Tom Stoppard did, something similar re Zurich.
Hey - its my time-machine, so I get to decide...
Maybe you just jokingly point the gun at Freud, but your trigger finger slips...
I don’t think Stalin ever lived outside the Russian Empire in the pre-WWI era. Tito lived at different places in the years before the First World War, but if he was ever in Vienna it was briefly. The Wikipedia biography doesn’t mention Vienna among the places he lived, but does have him working for a while in Wiener Neustadt (some distance away from Vienna).
Now its the South side of Chicago in the University neighborhood. History repeating?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
For now...
According to Simon Montefiore’s “Stalin; The Court of the Red Tsar,” Stalin briefly visited Vienna in 1912; there is no mention of a residence there. From Vienna he traveled to a Party Congress in Prague in November 1912, and then returned to Russia. That was the last time he would be outside Russia until the Tehran Conference in 1943. Stalin returned to St. Petersburg after the Prague Conference, and in February 1913, he was arrested by the Okhrana and sentenced to a very light term of exile. It was suspected that he was actually an Okhrana agent, who turned in his Party enemies. Anyone who had knowledge of this was purged in the 1930s. Purged with extreme prejudice.
No evidence of any residence in Vienna, and certainly not in 1913.
Satan is a promiscuous little bastard.
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