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.”
Anything about Nelson Mandela’s past. A lot of people don’t know that he was a member of the communist party and that he wrote a book on how to be a good communist. Or have even bothered to listen to 5 minutes of the Rivonia trial.
Or that he advocated for the MM and its use of violence. It was an essential part of the collective struggle to have a wide variety of pressures to use and apply.
Also the fact that Mandela had a run-in with a future DA voter/UKKKraine flag in bio/Redditor in the mid-1950s who claimed that “he was too much into politics”, while he was an attorney and the anti-apartheid movement was starting to gain momentum (and increasingly violent response)