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Stalinist? Brendan Eich is cutting down trees in Kolyma? No, I don't think that he should have been pushed out, but come on.

Sorry for my lack of clarity. I'm using "Stalinist" as shorthand for constantly changing party lines, which Stalin was infamous for, e.g. the public about face of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, obviously reversed on 22 June 1941, the day when Communists e.g. joined the French resistance, stopped sabotaging US rearmament, etc.

As for "cutting down trees in Kolyma" ... well, a few minutes with Google just now indicates he's become an unperson on the web, something else Stalin was notorious for doing. While I doubt Eich's been reduced to hard labor in a rural region unless he just wanted to get away from it all, who denies his career is effectively over? Unless, of course, he's doing things anonymously?

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