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The only people I've ever met who know who this person is IRL outside of Mongolia are Kaiserreich players. You can imagine what it's like interacting with such

The only people I've ever met who know who this person is IRL outside of Mongolia are Kaiserreich players. You can imagine what it's like interacting with such people...

ur-whale 4y ago
>The only people I've ever met who know who this person is IRL outside of Mongolia are Kaiserreich players. https://www.google.com/search?q=corto+maltese+ungern+sternberg https://www.google.com/search?q=corto+maltese+ungern+sternbe... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhtB7VYXdqY&t=38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhtB7VYXdqY&t=38s
arethuza 4y ago
He also features in the back story of one of the characters in the Laundry Files https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheLaundryFiles https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheLaundry...
- currency 4y ago
  Yess! I'm currently reading The Fuller Memorandum and it's wild finding this today.
- DylanSp 4y ago
  That's how I learned about him.
- sverona 4y ago
  I knew I'd heard that name before.
jarpineh 4y ago
Or comic book readers and watchers of its adaptation, like the OP here I noticed: http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-diversion-corto-maltese-in.html?m=1 http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-diversion-c...
smsm42 4y ago
Ungern features as a prominent persona in Victor Pelevin's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayev_and_Void https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayev_and_Void - so any Russian-reading person who read this (one of the most famous) works of Pelevin at least heard the name (though Pelevin's Ungern, of course, has as little to do with the real-life prototype as the rest of the people featured in this work, specifically very little). But for some it prompted further inquiry into the biography of this very, very un-ordinary man.
cassepipe 4y ago
Depicted as the mad man he is in the Corto Maltese comic taking place in Siberia

The only people I've ever met who know who this person is IRL outside of Mongolia are Kaiserreich players. You can imagine what it's like interacting with such people...

ur-whale 4y ago

>The only people I've ever met who know who this person is IRL outside of Mongolia are Kaiserreich players. https://www.google.com/search?q=corto+maltese+ungern+sternberg https://www.google.com/search?q=corto+maltese+ungern+sternbe... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhtB7VYXdqY&t=38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhtB7VYXdqY&t=38s

arethuza 4y ago

He also features in the back story of one of the characters in the Laundry Files https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheLaundryFiles https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheLaundry...

currency 4y ago
Yess! I'm currently reading The Fuller Memorandum and it's wild finding this today.
DylanSp 4y ago
That's how I learned about him.
sverona 4y ago
I knew I'd heard that name before.

jarpineh 4y ago

Or comic book readers and watchers of its adaptation, like the OP here I noticed: http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-diversion-corto-maltese-in.html?m=1 http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-diversion-c...

smsm42 4y ago

Ungern features as a prominent persona in Victor Pelevin's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayev_and_Void https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayev_and_Void - so any Russian-reading person who read this (one of the most famous) works of Pelevin at least heard the name (though Pelevin's Ungern, of course, has as little to do with the real-life prototype as the rest of the people featured in this work, specifically very little). But for some it prompted further inquiry into the biography of this very, very un-ordinary man.

cassepipe 4y ago

Depicted as the mad man he is in the Corto Maltese comic taking place in Siberia