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sovietpostcards · 2 days
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A scene from Giselle in the Bolshoi Theater. Photo by I. Yefimov and E. Michurina (Moscow, 1956).
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sonyaheaneyauthor · 2 days
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Ukrainian refugees in Sydney, Australia demonstrating to raise awareness about Stalin's crimes. 28th June 1953.
They were attacked by local communists, as reported in The Canberra Times.
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soviet-amateurs · 2 days
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Igor Stomakhin Summer Camp 1987
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pwlanier · 7 months
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Children's jumper. 1970s.
Atomic age, space race themes.
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zvyozdochka · 1 year
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Waiting for spring. Photo by Igor Gnevashev, USSR, 1980s.
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antiwaradvocates · 3 months
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New Year's Eve in the dormitory, Leningrad, 1983 (photo by Yuri Belinsky)
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vintagegeekculture · 3 months
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"Viy" (1967), the only horror movie ever made in the Soviet Union.
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jedivoodoochile · 1 year
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TES-3 Soviet transportable nuclear power plant mounted on self-propelled tracked vehicle. It was designed for use in hard-to-reach areas of the Far North and Siberia, 1950s.
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hummingbird-hunter · 1 year
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The thing is, I have nothing against socialism or communism as a political ideology; trust me, I'm as anti-capitalist as they come. The leftism is really not the problem here.
The problem is when in their leftism, people – Americans, really, and western Europeans – use the ussr as this sort of goal, this complete antithesis to the modern capitalist society, this almost-utopian place to live. They use hammer and sickle symbol, the ussr anthem; sometimes, as a joke, sometimes, not so much.
Not only that clearly shows that they know absolutely nothing about the ussr – it's also spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not, which is especially insidious now, when russia is literally committing a genocide.
The ussr wasn't a socialist utopia where everyone is equal. It was a totalitarian dictatorship, responsible for colonisation and genocide of multiple people and cultures. Just like the russian Empire before it. Just like modern russia continues to do now.
For many Eastern European and Central Asian people, hammer and sickle is not just a symbol of a political ideology. It's the symbol, under which people were starved to death, imprisoned or executed for daring to write in their own language; in which cultures were erased, people – forcefully assimilated, stripped of their own national identity.
It's the propaganda of being "the same people, the same nation" that russians love to use; that westerners love to believe, for the sole reason of the oppressed daring to look similar to the oppressor; for the sole reason of Americans being unable to look past their own history and realize oppression comes in many shapes and forms.
By using the ussr symbols in your political movement, you're denying the atrocities commited under that symbol and spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not.
It's not "progressive" to wave around a hate symbol.
Do your research.
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nemfrog · 2 months
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As the great armies of the US and the USSR converge on Germanay, page 1 of a pamphlet educating American soldiers about their new comrades, soldiers of the Red Army.
Our Red Army Ally. April 23, 1945.
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pauvrecamille · 3 months
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sovietpostcards · 10 months
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“Strawberries” by Igor Kornilov (linocut, 1958)
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tikkunolamresistance · 4 months
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We think that it’s worth noting that the Soviet Union actually preserved the Yiddish language.
Whilst it’s true that Jewish life under the Soviet Union was far from perfect, and thus eligible to be critiqued — the diasporic Yiddish language would NOT have survived the Holocaust if it weren’t for the USSR’s support. There was a Yiddish language magazine called “Sovietish Haimland”, from 1961, which published Jewish art, which was particularly encircling Jewish culture. It also carried Yiddish lessons in a serialized textbook. 100s of Yiddish established writers contributed to this magazine. However, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this magazine no longer recieved that same state support and came to an end.
Again, we cannot act like the Soviet Union were perfect. The USSR was far from it. it is there that we can see where to learn from, where to do better. Communists look at history to learn from it; we see where mistakes were made even by our forefathers that tried to implement revolutionary reforms.
But the USSR actively combatted the Nazi’s attempts to systemically destroy the Yiddish language— and that is noteworthy.
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This is from “Soviet but Not Russian: The ‘Other Peoples of the Soviet Union” by William Mandel. We are working on getting this PDF resource in our Drive, along with a Soviet Union section, if people would like to read it themselves.
We must look at our history, especially at our Communist forefathers, and assess what we need to work on as a society to truly liberate everyone from the tyranny of Capitalism. Looking to the Soviet Union, we can see many examples of great progress made as much as we can see great losses.
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silverfox66 · 1 year
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I found this meme, and now this one pops up in my head every time I see a russian or a tankie claim that the USSR "saved the world from nazism" and ignore this "minor" detail.
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bobemajses · 2 months
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Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union arriving in Austria, ca. 1973
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