Red_Scare
strange, the population is growing rapidly under the genocidal Soviet occupation, and right after liberation starts decreasing just as rapidly...
Nice to see Russia taking a page out of China's book for once!
Now do "poverty eradication" and "crackdown on corruption" and maybe sprinkle a bit of "peaceful rise" on top and you're cooking
Google translated article for English speaking comrades: https://theins-ru.translate.goog/obshestvo/78318?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
In 1967, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October revolution, young people across the USSR buried time capsules with letters to future Soviet people, to be unearhed in 2017.
Excerpts from my favourite one:
We, the communist youth of the 60s, can't imagine life without creative struggle and hard work to build communism - which for you is a living reality. You are the happy generation: clear skies above you, wars only exist in history books. You didn't have to chant "Shame on Israeli agressors!", you didn't have to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, you didn't have to read about attacks on the Cuban revolution in your newspapers. All those events, contemporary for us, must seem so distant to you. Your children won't play with rusty shells and casings they find.
Capsule from Pervomaysk, Donbass - here's Pervomaysk around 2015:
100% agree with you there!
Creeping neofascism among Ukraine’s armed forces
Creeping? It’s been deeply entrenched for at least 80-something years.
To me this reads as "fascism has been entrenched in Ukraine since WW2", I didn't realise they meant the West.
Thank you comrade!
Thank you, fixed!
tonight we're gonna party like it's 1917
Hahaha yeah I'm in awe of how Wells is full of himself, my favourite quotes are "It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin" which Wells utters in the same breath he praises Henry fucking Ford who would later support NSDAP with such fervor Hitler wanted to make Ford the leader of the fascist movement in the US; and "I do not know if you are prepared yet for that much freedom" in regards to the PEN Club, which at the time of this interview forbid it's members from using words such as "nationalism, inter-nationalism, democracy, aristocracy, imperialistic, anti-imperialistic, bourgeoisie, revolutionist or alike", wow that's way too much freedom for authoritarian Soviets to handle lol
I'd like to dedicate this first space flight to the future communist society our Soviet people are already building, which, I'm certain, all the people on Earth will join.
Only a few minutes are left before the start now. I say goodbye to you, dear friends, as people always say when leaving for a long journey. I would so very much like to hug every one of you, whether I know you or not, whether you're near or far!
See you soon!
Yuri's speech before the first space flight (https://web.archive.org/web/20210401072208/https://www.roscosmos.ru/28336/)
Having flown around Earth in the spaceship, I've seen the beauty of our planet. People, let's preserve and develop this beauty, not destroy it!
A note Yuri took after the flight (on the picture).
I know you all love daydreaming about space travel and even envy us cosmonauts a little, boys especially. But did you know we envy you too? Our space flights are just the beginning. Planets, whole new worlds await you! It is you, young Leninists, who will explore the universe, and we are happy to pass the torch to you.
Yuri Gagarin to Soviet children (https://youtu.be/wOqkcdufHfI?t=2683)
Leningrad, 1938
A worker and a supervisor, Moscow, 1954
Norilsk, 1965
Constitutional Crisis of 1993
Constitutional Crisis of 1993
"Put Chubais behind bars", 1998
Derp and derpina Le FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU Forever alone
Millennial memes were so much fucking worse than anything gen Z came up with