Talked with dad yesterday and the first thing he asked me was "what does our leader want with the zoos..?" So I had to tell him that there was something ideologically wrong with the national zoo (apparently). He said "there's also something about the museums?" Yes, our leader is not happy with the ideological purity at various Smithsonian museums. Dad said "oh man .... Back to USSR!"

We also talked about how the president wants to run the Kennedy center and dad brought up how Stalin was *very* involved with the opera and ballet in USSR, and that every new movie that was released had to get his approval.

So yea, ideological purity.

The maga guys are so afraid of "socialism"/"communism", yet their BS makes people who actually lived under those regimes shake their heads and say "here we go again".

It almost makes me wonder whether some of these maga people would have been very enthusiastic censors and agents of the Soviet state! Snitching on people and happily turning them in.

The Green Agenda of the USSR
#socialism #communism #ussr #sovietunion

https://youtube.com/shorts/g1W99xb_74o

Today in Labor History March 29, 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed at Sing Sing in 1953. The Rosenberg’s sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol were adopted by Abel Meeropol, the composer of “Strange Fruit,” (made famous by Billie Holiday). The sons maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had, in fact, collaborated, but that their mother was innocent. They continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it. The Rosenberg’s sons were among the last students to attend the anarchist Modern School, in Lakewood, New Jersey, before it finally shut its doors in 1958.

The Modern School movement began in 1901, in Barcelona, Spain, when Francisco Ferrer opened his Escuela Moderna. It was one of the very first Spanish schools to be fully secular, co-educational, and open to all students, regardless of class. His ideas were so popular that 40 more Modern Schools opened in Barcelona in just a few years, while 80 other schools adopted his textbooks. In 1909, there were mass protests and a General Strike against Spanish intervention in Morocco. The state responded with a week of terror and repression, during which they slaughtered over 600 workers and falsely executed Ferrer as an instigator of the protests. His execution led to worldwide protests. Modern Schools started to pop up outside of Spain, inspired by his original Escuela Moderna, including 20 in the U.S.

For more on the Modern School movement, read my article: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/

#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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBpdCWJBmak

The 2 sides of socialists

Let someone born in the Soviet Union explain it to you:

There is no end goal.
There only one single moving current goal
which is to consolidate and hold on to power.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdRKyhJa/
#russia #ussr #power #trump #maga #fascism

Lying awake my wandering mind associated the #Communist newspaper of the #USSR named #Pravda, which commonly translates as #Truth, with the #neoFascist in the Whitehouse naming his media platform Truth.

It's interesting how the principles and values play out in reality.

"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening" - #Trump (2018)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - #GeorgeOrwell, #1984 (1949)

Today in Labor History March 23, 1988: Angolan and Cuban forces defeated South Africa in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The battle started in August, 1987. In addition to Cubans, volunteers from the USSR, Vietnam, the African National Congress and SWAPO joined the People’s Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) in the Angolan Civil War. It was the largest battle in Africa since World War II. Several thousand died on both sides, including citizens of South Africa, Cuba, and the USSR

Today in Labor History March 23, 1918: 101 IWW members went on trial in Chicago for opposing World War I and for violating the Espionage Act. In September, 1917, 165 IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to subvert the draft and encourage desertion. Their trial lasted five months, the longest criminal trial in American history up to that time. The jury found them all guilty. The judge sentenced Big Bill Haywood and 14 others to 20 years in prison. 33 others were given 10 years each. They were also fined a total of $2,500,000. The trial virtually destroyed the IWW. Haywood jumped bail and fled to the USSR, where he remained until his death 10 years later.

JFK files show the CIA contaminated sugar from Cuba bound to the USSR with chemicals.

In case you thought socialism and communism is bad, you’re wrong. We are being lied to, past CIA leaks prove that. #Cuba #USSR #Communism #Socialism #Democrats #Republicans #JFKfiles

Inside the semi-abandoned Soviet observatory - Radio Optical Telescope - ROT54 finished in the 80's in Orgov Armenia (formerly in USSR).

Excellent video from YouTube channel revolutionaryth0t on the successes and failures of women's liberation in the USSR, with takeaways for future liberation efforts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnTlejH-WzQ

One crucial rule: don't target the average when designing, legislating, etc; instead, get as close to end-to-end coverage of the spectrum as you can.

NEW: #USSR

In dinning room of Soviet hotel - Sevan Writer's House. Built in the 1933 as a resort near lake Sevan for the writers across the USSR.

architects: Gevorg Kochar, Mikael Mazmanyan.

The last floor of the semi-abandoned Soviet observatory - Radio Optical Telescope - ROT54 finished in the 80's in Orgov Armenia (formerly in USSR).

#orgov
#sovietarchitecture
#sovietdesign
#70sinspired
#80sinterior
#abandonedplaces
#urbex
#brutalistarchitecture
#socialistmodernism
#socmod
#radioopticaltelescope
#radioopticalobservatoryrot54
#vintageclothing
#sovietstyle
#soviettechnology
#retrofuturism
#futuristic
#80sfuturism
#backtofuture
#timemachine
#80smovies
#ussr
#sovietvintage

The last floor of the semi-abandoned Soviet observatory - Radio Optical Telescope - ROT54 finished in the 80's in Orgov Armenia (formerly in USSR).