The only Russian leader in a thousand years who was a genuine gardener and who allowed himself to be recorded with a shovel in his hand was Joseph Stalin (lead image, mid-1930s). Compared to Stalin, the honouring of the new British king Charles III as a gardener pales into imitativeness and pretension.

short article regarding stalin as a gardner, with some strong words for the history of the british monarchy

    • jacktrowell@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      A Comically Large Spoon^tm

      But to be fair, this one seems too small to have been used to eat all the Grain in Ukraine, so it was probably one of the lesser prototypes they made.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
        01·
        2 years ago

        If you look at the square-ish shovel spoon (i mean it’s not called that without a reason!), it seems to be one of that small sugar spoons like they had for those little teacups decades ago.