Part 35: Update 15 Bonus
Update 15 BonusNothing too exciting this time. Just a bunch of chatting about politics with the receptionist.
Bielkin
Talk about...the Party
So, you're a member. So am I!
Of course, comrade. The room you occupy is reserved for visiting officers of our unstintingly heroic security services!--or--
Radiant indeed, comrade! Blindingly radiant, comrade!—or--
Radiant future! Aren't you a little optimistic? Thank you for correcting me, comrade. The outlook is bleak indeed! I commend your ability to adapt to change, comrade! Thank you, comrade! Unflinching adaptability is my watchword.—or--
Thank you for correcting me, comrade. The outlook is bleak indeed! You're a fool! Unstinting efforts will guide me to improved socialist thinking!Talk about...Gorbachev
You dare suggest that perestroika was an error? Perestroika has been an inspirational socialist ideal! Long live restructuring at all levels!b001
Death to outmoded one-partyism! Destroy the backsliderist power-mongers!-or—
Are you questioning unerring party hierarchy and planning? Glory to the democratic principles of the party apparatus!--or--
We Soviets need the unerringly stern guidance of Brezhnevism! Imperialist agents-provocateurs must be decapitated underfoot! Perestroika has been an inspirational socialist ideal! Long live restructuring at all levels! Correct progress is historical necessity! Backward thinkers must renounce strangle-holdism! The party must share power!—or--
Talk about...Yeltsin
So clearly a slavering boot-licker and paid agent-provocateur! The party must deal with such social democratic criminalism! He used to be a very senior party-member. Before being lured by dollars soaked in the blood of the exploited masses! The traitors have revealed themselves in the harsh light of blinding truth! Your pessimism is rumor-mongering! Unstinting efforts will guide me to improved socialist thinking!—or--
He's the only hope for Russia's future! Never has anyone been so unstintingly idolized by the lucid masses! The iron fist of socialist justice must crush him underfoot! A demagogue! Cult of the personality! Rank deviationism and lowest-common-denominatorism of the foulest breed!EDIT:
Xander77 posted:
All that stuff with Yeltsin is like an irony Inception - ironically enough it was probably meant to be ironically wrong.
David Copperfield posted:
This is a country that would soon shell its own parliament, aka one that is in a lot of chaos about its future, on top of being a country that values absolute obedience. The whole conversation tree is the hotel manager trying to unflinchingly agree 100% with what you say, but it's relevant that he's doing it no matter which way you talk about Gorbachev or Yeltsin.
So yeah, the Irony is intentional.