Didn't see a claim on this in the DE...

[themightyspazz]

...but if somebody's already called this, let me know and I'll take it down.


FOURTH WALL BREAKDOWN, Y'ALL.

Have some coca/eggnog/whathaveyou, compare presents, and enjoy the festivities at the end of the universe.

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Ah. Okay, that makes more sense," says Ellen. "I guess I'm just used to people being more up-front about 'no one here gets out alive' attitudes."

[sdelmonte]

"The Russians weren't big on honesty. Especially when dealing with Jews. And the only reason you would conscript Jews was to make them cannon fodder."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"... so, basically the Red Chinese with anybody who wasn't ethnically Chinese and enthusiastically atheist," says Ellen. "Got it."

[sdelmonte]

"The atheism came later in Russia.

"Though my uncle would have been more at home with the Soviets. For a while. Totally one of them and totally a non-believer. Who insisted on leading the Passover seder." Jews. Go figure.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"That's something else I'm never going to be able to get over," says Ellen, shaking her head. "Any universe where the Soviets made any kind of splash at all. They were barely mentioned in anything in my canon."

[sdelmonte]

"Sometimes it's surprising they managed it in reality...in my reality. When the curtain was pulled back, we saw what a mess things had been for years."