Slop.

I believe I hate this rat just the right amount, tyvm.

You're absolutely correct that Zizek's history is a lot worse than the Quirk Balkan Chungus persona he puts on, and the fact that he's held in any regard by the Western Left should be an indictment to it, if another one were at all necessary.

That said nothing you've listed above is special, beyond whatever stroke of luck allowed him to gain notoriety in western radlib circles. We have a hundred of these contrarian dipshits here in Bulgaria (and the Balkans more broadly). "Joined a student society where he made crude jokes about the party while being a sex pest, then ran for parliament in the 90s, failed and then wrote snarky/shockjock commentary for two decades" is a distinct type of guy around these parts. This is not to excuse his positions - he's every bit as culpable as all the other self-important class traitors who've come and gone since then. But to claim he played a major role is really pushing it. By the time he was on his bullshit the Warsaw pact had fallen deeply into historical nihilism as Xi Jingpin describes:

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall to pieces? An important reason is that in the ideological domain, competition is fierce! To completely repudiate the historical experience of the Soviet Union, to repudiate the history of the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate Stalin was to wreck chaos in Soviet ideology and engage in historical nihilism. It caused Party organizations at all levels to have barely any function whatsoever. It robbed the Party of its leadership of the military. In the end the CPSU—as great a Party as it was—scattered like a flock of frightened beasts! The Soviet Union—as great a country as it was—shattered into a dozen pieces. This is a lesson from the past!

 Xi Jinping, Uphold and Develop Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

The rank and file of the party was filled with careerist opportunists, and the upper echelons were realizing that they could own their own mansions instead of just being allowed to vacation in state-owned ones, if they betrayed the working class. I don't believe I'm knowledgeable enough to describe all the failures and fault lines that in the end crushed the revolution in the USSR or in the Balkan People's Republics, but to claim Zizek and grifter intellectuals like him (who weren't even well placed enough to privatize an industry or five) is just buying into their delusional self-mythology.

I urge you, place those same "achievements" listed above in the mouth of some pussy hat wearing radlib claiming they're fighting American fascism. How impressive are they really?