2023-09-10 20:05:14
A certain Mr. Stalin shook hands with the American president this weekend, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in India, and published the photo of this unique moment on social networks, to the great amusement of Internet users.
The Soviet dictator is long dead, but guests at the all-vegetarian G20 gala dinner in New Delhi included M.K. Stalinthe chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, as well as US President Joe Biden.
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No allusion to the story
MK Stalin was born in 1953, days before Joseph Stalin’s death, and his father chose to name him after the Soviet leader.
In power between the late 1920s and 1953, Stalin established a totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union that left millions dead.
The Indian official posted a photo on Sunday on However, he made no allusion to History, simply mentioning in the caption that he was participating in the G20 dinner.
Others were more talkative. “Funny, an American president meeting a Stalin after World War II,” quipped user psychicsoul2.
The alliance of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Second World War quickly disintegrated after the defeats of Germany and Japan, giving way to the Cold War.
Communist-inspired first names not uncommon in India
India, which was officially a non-aligned country, then moved closer to the Soviet Union and Moscow remains by far its main supplier of armaments.
Communist-inspired names are not uncommon in India, particularly in the south of the country in Tamil Nadu and neighboring Kerala, where the Communist Party has ruled for most of the past six decades.
In 2021, a man named Engels got married in Kerala in the presence of his friends Marx, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh. The same year, also in this state, a man called Socialism was married in front of his brothers Communism, Leninism and Marxism.
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