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Today, in 1870, #Lenin was born, a visionary #revolutionary whose strong determination led to the creation of the #SovietUnion, the first #socialist state in the history of mankind, & laid the foundation for power of the #workingclass.
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 […]
Protesters marched in Ginza on Saturday, demanding relief for those who suffered during World War II, including civilians killed in air raids. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/20/japan/politics/wwll-protesters-march/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #tokyo #ginza #wwii #tokyoairraids #wardead #okinawa #sovietunion #us
The Japan Times · Protesters march for WWII relief for civilians and others who were overlooked
https://www.europesays.com/2009230/ Why Does America Have a “Space Force”? #ColdWar #SovietUnion #space #SpaceRace #U.S.SpaceForce
"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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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
#Elon wants to turn the #US into the #SovietUnion.
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
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After World War II, America hired former Nazis and placed them in high positions in their government. We shouldn't be taking advice on how to deal with Nazis from America of all places. Let's take advice on how to deal with Nazis from the Soviet Union. The only thing the Soviets gave to the Nazis wasn't high-ranking government positions, but a fucking rope around their worthless necks.
Hey, Little Marco! This you?
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Via #ResoluteSquare @ 9:11pm ET on March 01, 2025
That time #MarcoRubio explained how #USA, #Russia & the #UK promised #Ukraine to provide for their defense forever if they gave up the huge stockpile of #nuclear weapons left in the country after the #SovietUnion fell.
Good times.
Path Into the Unknown, VA, 2017
The best of Soviet Science Fiction.
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But whereas the #SovietUnion ultimately collapsed from the combination of internal & external forces, #China persevered & over the past 30 years has flourished, taking advantage of #Western #CorporateGreed to build its manufacturing infrastructure.
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@stux >> In what reality would it be logical that a country that has been attacked and fighting for it's very existence for the last three years needs to repay the support they got 
It's a lot more than that.
In 1994, #US and #Russia promised security guarantees to #Ukraine after the #SovietUnion was dismantled.
In exchange, Ukraine was required to transfer all nuclear warheads to Russia and agree to become a non-nuclear weapons state, which they did.
https://1997-2001.state.gov/regions/nis/fs-us_ukr_970618.html
1997-2001.state.govTechnical Difficulties
(1/4) You know how it feels like we’re all living in some surreal dream state?
That’s #hypernormalization. It’s a term coined by Alexei Yurchak in his book, “Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More.”
Yurchak argues that, when the #SovietUnion fell, it came as a shock—but also not. In short, everyone had long-stopped believing in the Soviet Union as a system.
Soviet citizens, bureaucrats, and apparatchiks went through the motions without recognizing the system’s legitimacy.