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#Russian missiles that are based in #Crimea can reach almost anywhere in #Europe.
#Russia used #Crimea as one of its main grounds for its participation in the war in #Syria (cruise missile strikes on land targets and supplying military equipment via sea).
In the years of occupation, #Russia has turned #Crimea into a military base.
There are nuclear storage and service facilities in #Crimea that were built back in the #USSR. No doubt, these have been restored and kept in order by #Russia.
155 years ago, on April 22, 1870, #VladimirLenin, Russian revolutionary, leader of the #Bolshevik party and the October #Revolution, the third classic of #Marxism #Leninism, was born.
Currently taking my time to read this scintillating and heartbreaking work, Second Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich. A huge (700 page) distillation of so many monologues from women (and some men) who reminisce, idolise/idealise and grieve about life before the fall of the Soviet Union. The voices are those of the subjects, but she weaves a fascinating cloth from it all.
#SvetlanaAlexievich #SecondHandTime #SovietUnion #USSR #Socialism #Communism #FitzcarraldoEditions
Fitzcarraldo EditionsSecond-hand Time | Fitzcarraldo EditionsSecond-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the […]
"All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers" | Mao Zedong Talks with Anna Louise Strong (1946)
#socialism #communism #marxism #socialist #communist #marxist #china #maoism #maoist #interview #ww2 #wwii #imperialism #ussr #sovietunion #japan #korea
Einstein honored Lenin
I honor Lenin as a man who completely sacrificed himself and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice... one thing is certain: men of his type are the guardians and restorers of the conscience of humanity.
- Feuer, Lewis S. 1989). Einstein and the Generations of Science.
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Why are tankies so blind to what they’re doing? How can they worship dictators like the Kim dynasty, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Castro, Maduro, and vanguards like the CPSU?
It doesn’t make sense, if you want the working class to be free, why are you idolizing authoritarian rulers?
What the hell is happening here? This blind devotion and cult-like behavior is downright insane.
The Red Army of the USSR began the Second World War (1939-45) with a series of shocking defeats, but from late 1942, it rallied and held on to key cities like the capital Moscow, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), and Stalingrad (Volgograd). #History #RedArmy #SecondWorldWar #SovietUnion #USSR #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2700-en/
World History EncyclopediaThe Red Army in WWIIThe Red Army of the USSR began the Second World War (1939-45) with a series of shocking defeats, but from late 1942, it rallied and held on to key cities like the capital Moscow, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg...
Here's a post by Andrew Northall on Bluesky:
64 years ago on the 12 April 1961, Soviet steelworker and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in Space and making one complete orbit of the Earth.
#YuriGagarin #Gagarin #Cosmonaut #Space #Earth #Man #Vostock #SpaceRace #East #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewnorthall.bsky.social/post/3lmmwo4ezf227
Newly declassified documents reveal that the CIA used Puerto Rico for an operation to poison shipments of sugar from Cuba to the USSR, and that a former Governor of Puerto Rico was a direct CIA asset.
Website to download video: https://instag.com/mastodon/
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Why a political appointee can order scientists around regarding science that is decades old and well understood is beyond me.
They are truly modern-day apparatchiks; people placed into positions simply because they praise the leader, with no knowledge or understanding of their departments.
The Battle of Moscow (Oct 41 to Jan 42) was Germany's first major land defeat in the Second World War (1939-45). #History #Moscow #RedArmy #SecondWorldWar #USSR #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2686-en/
World History EncyclopediaBattle of Moscow in 1941-2The Battle of Moscow (Oct 41 to Jan 42) was Germany's first major land defeat in the Second World War (1939-45). Although Axis panzer divisions reached within 20 miles (32 km) of the Soviet capital...
#НеизвестныйХудожник #UnknownArtist The panel "Happy Childhood" is a gift to Joseph Stalin for the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from the staff of the Telman Hosiery Factory No. 2; 1939
Trotskyism: Counter-revolution in Disguise, Ch. 12: The Trotskyites in the USA (1935) by M. J. Olgin. Marxist Audiobook.
#marxism #trotsky #trotskyism #marxismleninism #socialism #communism #ussr #sovietunion
