#Soviet mural

[goetzburggraf]

there are some cracks in this aging image

[fuckyeahplattenbau]

Tashkent - historically known as Chach, Uzbekistan

[holmesoldfellow]

Half body statue of Sherlock Holmes outside of the Sherlock Art Hotel in Riga, Latvia

[rrrauschen]

Halyna Sevruk, {1985-1987} The City on Seven Hills (mural) http://archive-uu.com/en/profiles/sevruk-halyna/

[reactor-four-official]

A mural on the Pripyat Music School entitled “Music”.

The mural is made from a traditional Italian mosaic style called Smalti. Small, hand cut glass pieces make up the colors of the mural.

Photo Credits: Andre Josse

[picsfromsiberiangirl]

It’s Alive!

[wizardairbrushedonthesideofavan]

abandoned community center 1/2

[catboyrightsdefender]

on the verge of tears because i cant concentrate for shit hahaha

[diet-dark]

раздраженный

[jackiehadel1]

TALLINN, ESTONIA 🇪🇪 (HISTORY): KALEV SPORTSHALL

Kalev Sports Hall (Estonian: Kalevi spordihall). It was built in 1962. An enduring example of Soviet Era architecture and art. 17may2023

[jdunlevy]

In late 2022, a report on Belarus’s state-funded media singled out the mural in the Soly church, accusing it of “inciting national and religious hatred.” The report also claimed priests of the church “do not care about saving souls, but about returning western Belarus to Poland.”

The painting had reportedly previously been covered up by Soviet authorities, then was revealed and re-sanctified after the fall of the U.S.S.R.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Lenin mural in Angarsk, Russia.

Via Soviet Visuals

[fuckyeahplattenbau]

Pskov, Siberia by Dmitry Markov

[pazzesco]

Frida Kahlo & the Revolutionary

Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, 1937

Natalya Sedova (Trotsky's 2nd wife), Frida Kahlo & Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician. He was a central figure in the October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union. He was born into a wealthy Russian Jewish family, but embraced Marxism when he was 18. After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky was outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin and he and his allies were exiled to Alma Ata in 1928, and deported in 1929. He lived in various countries before settling in Mexico in 1937.

Trotsky and Kahlo became lovers after Kahlo and Diego Rivera sponsored his move to Mexico. Kahlo and Rivera offered the Trotskys their second home, the now famed Casa Azul, equipping it with guards, barricades, covered windows, and alarm systems to ensure their political hero’s safety.

Leon Trotsky and his wife arrive in Tampico, Mexico, surrounded by police and artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images.

In the summer of 1940, Frida Kahlo found herself in jail. Mexico City police suspected her as an accomplice in the murder of Leon Trotsky. Several days prior to her arrest, he’d been gruesomely offed with an ice pick.

His murder—and her implication in the crime—was a dramatic turn of events, especially considering that Kahlo and Trotsky had been giddy lovers just three years earlier.

She gave Trotsky a self-portrait. The note she holds reads: “To Leon Trotsky, with all my love, I dedicate this painting on 7th November 1937. Frida Kahlo in Saint Angel, Mexico.”

The politician’s secretary, Jean van Heijenoort, remembered the pair’s blatant flirtations under the nose of Trotsky’s wife. Sedova didn’t understand English, the language in which the lovers communicated. They met clandestinely at Kahlo’s sister’s house, and Trotsky slipped love notes into books he lent her. Kahlo and Trotsky’s meek attempts at discretion didn’t prevent Sedova from discovering the affair. She gave her husband a “me-or-her ultimatum,” and he and Frida ended their affair.

Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo, 1937

Leon Trotsky delivering a speech in Copenhagen, Denmark. , 1932

By May 1940, fellow Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Trotsky (Rivera was an early suspect in the case). He wasn’t as lucky several months later. On August 20th, Ramón Mercader, an undercover agent working for Stalin, killed Trotsky with an ice pick. Kahlo had met Mercader in Paris the previous year, and was brought in for questioning by the Mexican police. She was released a day later, and soon after traveled to San Francisco, where Rivera was working on a mural.

"Friends recall that long after Trotsky’s assassination Kahlo delighted in driving Rivera into a rage by humiliating him with the memory of her affair with the great Communist.”

Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait in Red and Gold Dress, 1941

[yourtongzhihazel]

This isn't a serious political analysis or anything.

There's a video of the Chechen wars of russian federation tanks rolling past Soviet monuments and symbols; a succinct analogy of the decades of regional strife and conflict to come.

Today these momuments are slowly decaying, the ruins of a great country now controlled by regional warlords. The reminders of what nation once existed are everywhere yet nowhere. The state seal on a building which there isnt enough money nor care to knock down. A faded red star atop a spire. An eroded hammer and sickle monument in some remote mid sized city. Chipping and fading murals depicting the long gone hope and dreams of many peoples tucked away in some back alley. The empty and decaying factories, spaceports, halls, etc..

Great capitalist beasts inhabiting the corpse of former socialism.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 3 September 1945, US president Harry Truman officially approved and expanded Operation Paperclip, a secret plan to bring Nazi scientists to US. Originally called Operation Overcast, the US was keen to make use of German technology in order to rival the Soviet Union. Eventually, 1,600 Nazi technicians were brought to the US, where they largely avoided prosecution for war crimes. Instead they were given jobs developing chemical and biological weapons, experimenting with "mind-control" in the notorious MKUltra scheme, and working on the space program. Wernher von Braun was made a senior director on the space programme, which was later absorbed by NASA. He was just one of the officials who was intimately involved in the Holocaust, as he selected enslaved labourers from concentration camps to be worked to death building rockets. Chief Nazi medical officer Walter Schreiber was involved in human experiments on prisoners of concentration camps, including supervising experiments where victims were injected with typhus, men were sterilised, prisoners were submerged in freezing water and locked into low pressure chambers, destroying their lungs. Schreiber was later exposed by the Boston Globe, so the US military flew him to safety in Argentina where he was sheltered by the government of Juan Perón, which harboured many other Nazi war criminals. Another Nazi doctor, Hubertus Strughold, also reportedly had knowledge of these same experiments, and was listed as "wanted" for war crimes by the US Army. But rather than face trial he was employed by the Air Force, described as "the father of aerospace medicine", had a library named after him at the Brooks Air Force Base, which was only eventually renamed in 1995, and was honoured with a portrait in a mural of "medical heroes" at Ohio State University. Pictured: German scientists in the US * We only post highlights on here, for all our anniversaries follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2073747076143765/?type=3