Louis Adamic on how close we were really to the Red Alert's Tesla coils:

In the early 1920s Lenin urged him to move to the Soviet Union, promising him every scientific facility, and personal security for life, but Tesla declined — he was an American and had got used to living in the United States, whose civilization he helped to create.

According to Tesla himself, Lenin asked him twice.

A leftist meme in the form of an image name:

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Random communist jackass repeats a 100 years old Soviet communist talking point, news at eleven lmao