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Because they kept stalling and denying his resignation, he came to be known as Stalin? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by 1Malayali@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

It's the other way around actually. Stalin came to be the word folks used to delay the inevitable, and when the word came to English they wanted to de-russofy it a bit so they changed it to stalling

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