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A person's Stalin number is how many encounters is one away from Stalin. I worked with a person whose grandfather was a close associate of Tito, who had met Sta
by HarryHirsch 3y ago
A person's Stalin number is how many encounters is one away from Stalin. I worked with a person whose grandfather was a close associate of Tito, who had met Stalin in person.
- mcmoor 3y agoEncounter is too small for notability. We all have six degree of separation after all. Erdos number is specifically publishing paper, which is much harder. Just like its variants like Bacon number for producing films.
- Aerbil313 3y agoThat's a myth. In the original experiment, AFAIR, while the average distance between any two people in the world was 6 persons, the number of successfully completed chains of connection was very small[1]. 1: https://www.hyphanet.org/assets/papers/lic.pdf https://www.hyphanet.org/assets/papers/lic.pdf
- jltsiren 3y agoEncounters make this far too easy. (Though it also helps that I'm from Finland.) Path 1: When I was a kid, Raisa Gorbacheva visited our school. I didn't talk to her personally, but some people I knew did. Due to her position, I'm fairly sure she knew many people who knew Stalin. Path 2: Because I was involved in student politics, I know some Finnish politicans and have met many more. Some of them must have met Putin, but I'm not completely sure who. Putin's grandfather Spiridon Putin was a chef for both Lenin and Stalin. Path 3: I have mutual friends with former Finnish politician Erkki Tuomioja. His grandmother was Hella Wuolijoki, who was likely a Soviet spy, was married for a while to a personal friend of Lenin, and claimed to have met Stalin in the 1930s.