Richard Pickel in Moscow Trials

Moscow trials From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. All of the defendants were sentenced to death and were subsequently shot in the cellars of Lubyanka Prison in Moscow by NKVD chief executioner Vasily Blokhin. The full list of defendants is as follows: 1. Grigory Zinoviev 2. Lev Kamenev 3. Grigory Yevdokimov 4. Ivan Bakayev 5. Sergei Mrachkovsky, a hero of the Russian Civil War in Siberia and the Far East 6. Vag arshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan, leader of the Armenian Communist Party 7. Ivan Nikitch Smirnov, People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs 8. Yefim Dreitzer 9. Isak Reingold 10. Richard Pickel 11. Eduard Holtzman 12. Fritz David 13. Valentin Olberg 14. Konon Berman-Yurin 15. Moissei Lurye 16. Nathan Lurye

A Wikipedia-style screenshot about the Moscow trials lists historical defendants, but “Richard Pickel” is circled and an arrow points to Pickle Rick from Rick and Morty. The joke comes from treating the fictional talking pickle as if he were a real Soviet defendant, making the historical list absurd. It is used as a reaction to a bizarre mix-up, anachronism, or unexpectedly ridiculous claim. EN: A Wikipedia-style screenshot about the Moscow trials lists historical defendants, but “Richard Pickel” is circled and an arrow points to Pickle Rick from Rick and Morty. The joke comes from treating the fictional talking pickle as if he were a real Soviet defendant, making the historical list absurd. It is used as a reaction to a bizarre mix-up, anachronism, or unexpectedly ridiculous claim.

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