[HN Gopher] Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (2011)
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       Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (2011)
        
       Author : aww_dang
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-04-26 05:44 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (madmonarchist.blogspot.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (madmonarchist.blogspot.com)
        
       | aww_dang wrote:
       | Part II:
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       | http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/05/monarchist-profile...
        
       | Der_Einzige wrote:
       | The only people I've ever met who know who this person is IRL
       | outside of Mongolia are Kaiserreich players. You can imagine what
       | it's like interacting with such people...
        
         | smsm42 wrote:
         | Ungern features as a prominent persona in Victor Pelevin's
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayev_and_Void - so any
         | Russian-reading person who read this (one of the most famous)
         | works of Pelevin at least heard the name (though Pelevin's
         | Ungern, of course, has as little to do with the real-life
         | prototype as the rest of the people featured in this work,
         | specifically very little). But for some it prompted further
         | inquiry into the biography of this very, very un-ordinary man.
        
         | jarpineh wrote:
         | Or comic book readers and watchers of its adaptation, like the
         | OP here I noticed:
         | http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-diversion-c...
        
         | cassepipe wrote:
         | Depicted as the mad man he is in the Corto Maltese comic taking
         | place in Siberia
        
         | arethuza wrote:
         | He also features in the back story of one of the characters in
         | the _Laundry Files_
         | 
         | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheLaundry...
        
           | currency wrote:
           | Yess! I'm currently reading The Fuller Memorandum and it's
           | wild finding this today.
        
       | dendrite9 wrote:
       | For people who like podcasts this one discussed Ungern-Sternberg.
       | It made for a pretty interesting car ride.
       | https://soundcloud.com/user-798629330/episode-177-the-bloody...
        
       | jzellis wrote:
       | Oh, man. Ungern-Sternberg was absolutely batshit. I mean, I'm
       | sure the communists told stories about him, but even his fellow
       | anti-communists regarded him as a bloodthirsty psychopath:
       | Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski's Beasts, Gods & Men is a firsthand
       | account of Ungern-Sternberg's lunacy, and it seems likely that
       | Ossendowski would be more disposed to downplay what a whacko he
       | was rather than make up stories. I've never actually seen or
       | heard of anyone admiring the old basket case before, it's
       | actually kind of impressive. While I was reading this I just kept
       | hearing Dennis Hopper's voice in my head: "What will they say
       | about him? That he was a kiiiind maaaan? That he was a wiiiise
       | maaaan? That he had plaaaans, maaaan?" :-D
        
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