Monday, July 20, 2015

Stranger than fiction.



-Fairly similar-looking. Eyebrow similarity anyway.



-Both designated...














PAUSE: Amazing. Was that a Nazi thing? UNPAUSE.

-Both designated heirs.










Look! Is that Hess?


-May 10, 1941. Rudolf Hess departs Augsburg by plane for...the UK, Nazi Germany's greatest enemy.












































"I can't recognize Hess in it. It's a different person. Something must have happened to him--some mental disturbance." 

-Thirty years later, September 12, 1971. Lin Biao departs* Shanhaiguan airport, Beijing for...the Soviet Union, the PRC's greatest enemy.










(Yep. British-made plane.)























"Rain will fall from the skies. What can we do? Lin Biao wants to flee. Let him. Don't shoot." 












Planes will fall from the skies too when they run out of fuel.


*with his wife and son who may or may not have drugged him, kidnapped him, forced him onto the plane, yada yada.