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Boromir's guess the famous game #38 [Thomas Sankara! Winner: LauraGrace]


Rules:

1. I'm thinking of some famous person, it can be a film actor, a philosopher, a president, a prime minister, a singer, fictio hunal character, mafia man etc.
2. You need to ask me a yes or no question about this person, for example, "Is the person still alive?," "Does the person work in the entertainment industry?," any question you can think of that helps you to reveal the answer. The host answers with yes or no only.
3. Maximum 1 question and 1 guess per player per answer.
4. The winner can either start a new game or say "pass." In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another.


1: Fictional? No
2: Male? Yes
3: Dead? Yes
4: Acting? No
5: Communist? Yes
6: Chairman Mao? No
7: Stalin? No
8: Died after 1900? Yes
9: Ho Chi Minh? No
10: Cuba in their background? No
11: Born in Asia? No
12: Russian? No
13: Are they famous for more than their politics? No
14: Karl Marx? No
15: European? No
16: Born in America? No
17: John Reed? No
18: Born in South or Central America? No
19: Born in Africa? Yes!
20: Nelson Mandela? No

LauraGrace wins with Thomas Sankara, who led a revolution in Burkina Faso in the 1980s that massively improved the living conditions of his people and made him an icon all over Africa to this day.

Scoreboard:
LauraGrace - 10
Boromir - 8
nyctc7 - 6
hownos - 5
sslssg - 3
lud - 2
Kawada_Kira - 2
tcrum - 1
Carrot - 1

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Nelson Mandela

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Nope

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Nelson Mandela?

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Thomas Sankara?

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Yes!

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Nelson Mandela is consider a Communist round here? I don't understand.

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I think it's debatable. He was certainly sympathetic to communism (very pro-Soviet, pro-Cuba, etc), but I don't think he was ever entirely an adherent of communist ideology himself. He was, however, a member of the South African Communist Party. But I think that's mostly because the ANC and SACP were very intertwined in the anti-apartheid struggle. I.e. it was more organizational than ideological. At least based on what I know, and based on the fact that as president he didn't do anything to move South Africa toward communism. Though he might have done, if the Soviet Union hadn't fallen right before apartheid fell in South Africa. An interesting alternate-history scenario.

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i am going to do one

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I'm down for one

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Do it.

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