#land of the soviets

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Since people wanna celebrate the moon landing so bad, lemme remind you which country actually hit most milestones in the space race first (image source in alt)

[jewreallythinkthat]

Some people on the left in the USA need to go and read about the McCarthy Witch Trials which we all objectively know we're bad and wrong and then take a good fucking look at how they treat jews and people they dont like because it's a fucking 1:1 mapping of identicality when you start breaking down the behaviours

[daftydill]

I actually can’t remember how many times he was seen actually writing an article…

[quatregats]

By the way, apropos of nothing, but when I say "heigho it'll go without these oddments" I am in fact referencing this panel in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets which 12-year-old me decided to adopt as a catchphrase before I knew what a meme was:

[sometimesigif]

baby Christian Bale in Mio min Mio / Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987) dir. Vladimir Grammatikov

[of-two-lands]

44°58'23.5"N 6°03'54.8"E

youtube/oftwolands

www.oftwolands.com

[scrollonso]

mňau 🤨

[fuckingstupidbracket]

"I don't know if it counts as history since it was within the last 100 years" MY BROTHER IN CHRIST

WORLD WAR 2 IS WITHIN THE LAST 100 YEARS

[stillunusual]

After the Soviet invasion and occupation of eastern Poland at the start of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens were deported to camps, collective farms, exile villages and various outposts of the gulag deep in the USSR, for use as slave labour. The mass deportations to what became known as "nieludzka ziemia" (the inhuman land) took place in four waves between February 1940 and June 1941.

The first major operation began on 10th February 1940.

The second wave began on 13th April 1940.

The third wave took place between June and July 1940.

The fourth wave occurred in May and June 1941. Tens of thousands of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were also deported at the same time.

Most of the deportees were women and children….

[theartistboy]

cant believe I just saw someone very strongly imply that it was a bad thing Finland wasn't absorbed into the Soviet Union

[zvaigzdelasas]

i just remembered but didn't latvia wanted to colonize countries in africa but couldn't because they were all already colonized in the 1800s? or was it lithuania? or maybe it was denmark and i just can't tell the difference

"was it Latvia or Lithuania" yes lol...Latvia (specifically Courland - Swedes already had Livonia at this point) was a vassal state of Poland-Lithuania at the time, and they took a colony on an island in the Gambian River (1651-1658), as well as in Tobago (1652-1658, 1660-1666, 1668-1689), with the brief period in the late 60s where the Duke of Courland was held captive by the Swedes & thus the Dutch were running things on Latvian Tobago along w their other colonies on the island. Also notably for abt a century after Courland sold off control of the colony on Tobago, they still used a letter of marque and reprisal on the islands territory (meaning they had the "legal" right to use territorial waters to conduct raids against ships & other countries at war w them - basically an official piracy license).

Also notable is that in this era, the ruling class of Latvia were Baltic Germans, whose control over the region started back with the Teutonic Knights &.....arguably never really ended if you look at land ownership (minus the obvious few decades in the 20th century lol). One might notice that "Courland" isn't rly a very Latvian name lol, bc the dominant (& court) language among Curonian nobility was also German lol

Lithuanian rulers in this era were a mix between Lithuanian (Aukštaičių & Žemaičių) Nationals, Ruthenians, and a strong contingent of Poles - Polonization was a quite dominant process in terms of National identity....but the Lithuanian Republic loves to claim a singular position wrt the mantle of legitimacy of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth tho so if we want that we also get the blame for the colonies imo 🤷

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

[identifying-spacecraft-in-posts]

Roscosmos Space Shuttle 1K 1.01 Buran (Snowstorm)

Antonov An-225 Mriya (Dream)

[thenuclearmallard]

Nov 2nd 1943 (79 years ago) - 70,000 from the Karachay population of the Caucasus were deported from their native lands by Stalin.

Just a portion of the crimes committed by the government.

[oldtimesnew]

Oleg Savostyuk, The Earth and the People, USSR Art Exhibition to Commemorate the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Virgin Lands Development, 1979

Scanned from "The Soviet Political Poster", Sovetsky Khudozhnik Publishers.

[rrrauschen]

Ivan Pyryev, {1947} Сказание о земле Сибирской (Symphony of Life; Tale of Siberian Land)