I am very much in love with trucks that run on trolleybus lines.

Labour Utilising Soviet Techniques to Give Farage and Reform a Bad Name

https://www.dailysquib.co.uk/world/63273-labour-utilising-soviet-techniques-to-give-farage-and-reform-a-bad-name.html

50 years ago Dmitri #Shostakovich died

His life was marred by a delicate dance with #Soviet authorities, it shackled him

#Stalin took a particular dislike of Dmitri

For "formalism" (not enough Soviet aesthetic)

It seems absurd

But it was a serious threat to his life

We're entering a new era of ideological conformity to hateful political power

Do your thing

In 50 years, your efforts will live on like Shostakovich's music

While the ogres who hunt you are in the ground, despised

"FILE THIS UNDER: wow! really? you think!"

Documents have been found in the archives of the #German Foreign Ministry confirming that as early as 1994, #Putin did not recognize the legitimacy of the borders of some post-#Soviet countries

The #German Consul General in #Saint_Petersburg noted that on January 14, 1994, #Putin persistently repeated his previous words: "#Crimea, Eastern #Ukraine, and Northern #Kazakhstan have historically always belonged to #Russia."

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=xqVi_vmCCAA

I remember @dosnostalgic mentioning people in #soviet union used to put rugs up on their home walls.

Now I understand why: state housing did thin walls ( likely due to economic restrictions ), so unless you did so, you would hear everything your neighbors were doing (and they would hear you back)

"Since time immemorial, an ancient, half-crumbled radio telescope has stood on the island of Matuku. It has never been established who built it or why."

Boris & Arkady Strugatsky - The Time Wanderers (1985)

Today in Labor History July 26, 1944: The Red Army liberated Lviv, Ukraine, from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survived the Nazi occupation out of 160,000 who were living there before the Nazi invasion. The occupation is depicted in several books, including Robert Marshall’s “The Sewers of Lvov” (1991) and Krsytyna Chiger’s memoir “The Girl in the Green Sweater” (2007). Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s film “In Darkness,” which was nominated for an Oscar, is based on these two books.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #holocaust #redarmy #russia #soviet #ussr #ukraine #books #fiction #historicalfiction #author #writer #film @bookstadon

https://www.europesays.com/2272192/ Plane crashes in Russia’s Far East with 49 people on board • FRANCE 24 English #AnAnatol #angara #crash #danger #Emergency #france #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FranceNews #france24 #FRANCE24English #FrenchNews #NewsFrance #plane #PlaneCrash #Russia #Soviet #SovietUnion

Today in Labor History July 18, 1934: “The American Mercury” accepted Emma Goldman's article, "Communism: Bolshevist & Anarchist, A Comparison.” However, it was not until a year later that it was published, in a truncated form, as "There is No Communism in Russia." Goldman had been deported by the U.S. in 1919, during the Palmer raids, and sent to Russia, where she lived with her comrade, Alexander Berkman, for several years. She was initially supportive of the Bolsheviks, until Trotsky brutally crushed the Kronstadt rebellion, in 1921, slaughtering over 1,000 sailors and then executing over a thousand more. After this, she left the USSR and, in 1923, published a book about her experiences, “My Disillusionment in Russia.” H.L. Menken founded “The American Mercury,” in 1924, and published radical writers throughout the 1920s and ‘30s. A change of ownership in the 1940s led to a shift to the far right, including virulently antisemitic articles.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #EmmaGoldman #russia #soviet #ussr #communism #kronstadt #rebellion #massacre #writer #author #writer #books #journalism #magazine @bookstadon

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

The promotion of #communist ideology has been criminalized in #Czechia - President #Pavel signed the amendment to #Czech criminal code.

Now, anyone in #Czechia who "establishes, supports or promotes #Nazi, #communist, or other movements which demonstrably aim to suppress human rights and freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, national, religious or class-based hatred," can be sentenced to up to five years in prison.

: #Soviet tanks in #Prague, 1968

"#Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich is best known as a #Soviet #refusenik and former political #prisoner who was sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp for his involvement in a 1970 plot to #hijack a plane and escape the #USSR. Today, at 77, he is making headlines for a very different reason: the publication of his #book, “The Cantonists: #Jewish Boys in the #Russian Military, 1827-1856” by Touro University Press, being released in English for the first time."

https://jewishlink.news/from-prisoner-to-scholar-rabbi-josef-mendelevichs-lifelong-fight-for-jewish-identity/

Today in Labor History July 16, 1916: Carlo Tresca and other IWW strike leaders were arrested on charges of inciting the murder of a deputy. This was during a strike of 30,000 iron-ore mine workers of the Mesabi range in northern Minnesota. Tresca was an Italian-American IWW organizer and newspaper editor. He opposed fascism, Stalinism and mafia-infiltration of unions. He was assassinated in 1943. Some believe the Soviets killed him in retaliation for his criticism of Stalin. The most recent research suggests it was the Bonanno crime family, in response to his criticism of the mafia and Mussolini. Tresca wrote two books. His autobiography was published posthumously in 2003. He also wrote a book in Italian, “L'attentato a Mussolini ovvero il segreto di Pulcinella.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #carlotresca #mesabi #mining #books #writer #author #stalin #soviet #mafia #fascism #antifascism #mussolini #union @bookstadon

This statue in #Ulaanbaatar #Mongolia commemorates Marshall Georgy Konstantinovich #Zhukov for his role in defeating the Japanese 6th Army at the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in Mongolia. Zhukov was, amongst other things, deputy commander-in-chief of the #Soviet armed forces during #WorldWarTwo and a Hero of The Mongolian People's Republic. #Photo #Photography #Darktable #FujiVelviaEmulation

The Revival of the GULAG: Russia's terror state Duma passed a law creating another network of special FSB prisons. KGB is ramping up rape, torture, murders now legal again. Text book criminal regime.

The authors of the bill are literally restoring the powers of the #Soviet KGB. These prisons will operate outside the regular prison system, with no obligation to report to correctional authorities.