Soviet Diplomat Falls for Che

When a Soviet diplomat discussed the Sino-Soviet split with Che Guevara, he didn't listen to his answer because he fell in love with him as he was talking. What is the most obscure communist fact you know? Gay rights As he spoke, trying to reassure the younger man, Metutsov said he began to experience a strange sensation. A jowly, beetle-browed man with huge ears and pale blue eyes, Metutsov found himself “falling in love” with Che. “I told him: ‘You know, I’m a little older than you, but I like you, I like above all your looks.’ And I confessed, I confessed my love for him because he was a very attractive young man. ... I knew his defects, from all the papers, all the information we had, but when I was talking to him, when we dealt with one another, we joked, we laughed, and we talked about less than serious things, and I forgot about his defects. ... I felt attracted to him, but I understood it was a joke? I wanted to get away, to separate myself, but he attracted me, you see. ... He had very beautiful eyes. Magnificent eyes, so deep, so generous, so honest that ... he was so honest somehow, one could not help but feel it ... and he spoke very well, he became inwardly excited, and his voice was like that, with all of his impulses, and his words were squeezing you.” Yeah i get it

A screenshot combines a tweet about a Soviet diplomat supposedly falling in love with Che Guevara during a political discussion with a long literary passage describing intense attraction to Che. The punchline is the blunt reaction “Gay rights,” followed by “Yeah i get it,” treating the romantic anecdote as an obscure communist fact. It is sent as an absurd reaction to unexpectedly homoerotic historical or political trivia.

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