This one time my dad was talking about Karl Marx and said he was “born in Russia”, and I corrected him that he was born in Germany. And then he got argumentative and started spouting out other facts about “Karl Marx”, like that he overthrew the Czar and lead the Red Army…
Suddenly I realized… “Dad, you’re thinking of Vladimir Lenin, not Marx.”
My dad realized I was correct and replied: “Well of course you would know that.”
one time on a long transit ride I was reading a book of speeches by fidel castro and the guy sitting next to me incredulously asked me why I was reading that. I told him ‘because he massively improved the quality of life of average cubans while facing down the might of the US’