Why not ditch the dozen usual photos, posters and quotes and champion the accounts of ordinary soviet citizens, the drivers and direct beneficiaries of Stalin's policies?
If you really believe rapid industrialisation, a process that brutalises tens of thousands when it takes a leiaurely century to complete is amazing, why not salute the rural and industrial workers who made it possible?
Whenever GQ businessman weakly salutes the Muskerbergs of the world for building googaws and whatchimacallits, theres a flood of indignation about the staff and work force being the originators.
Here though, Stalin personally harvested the wheat, mined the coal and shot Hitler
I think there's nothing more pathetic than IRA larping 5th gen irish americans. You fetishize violence that you have zero actual connection to, it's embarrassing
“Global life expectancy has dropped two years in a row for the first time since 1959, and if it drops again in 2022 this will be historically unprecedented in modern history.”
Gaddafi spoke the exact same way about Black Africans as Tunisia's President Kais Saied does now: racist, xenophobic distractions as they grip tighter on their countries. I suppose he's on track ten years from now to be worshipped as a unifier, too.
It's 5 years since the Skripal poisonings in Salisbury, and, for Bellingcat, the first in a series of investigations that would eventually lead to uncovering more than a dozen assassination attempts by the Russian state. We started here:
''protest against the chemical terror of schoolgirls with the slogan "Responsible come out" in front of the education building of the 2nd district of Tehran'
❗️Please, share: 12 years old Russian girl Masha drew a picture in support of Ukraine in her art class. The school called police, a criminal case was open against her father on discrediting the Russian army. Today Alexey Moskalev was arrested, and Masha was sent to an orphanage.
The BBC has reportedly delayed a documentary on Jimmy Saville due this year until 2024 because of 'sensitivities'.
One can't help but wonder what might be sensitive about publishing it this year...
🐈⬛ Fellow Workers from the West of Scotland and Highlands gathered for the first ever Wob School event this weekend: exploring the IWW and radical education, the culture of our union and new tactics to build the new world in the shell of the old when we're organising at work.
Riot broke out in Anyang, Huaxian, Yangbadao Village on Feb 27. Clashing with heavy police presence, villagers trashed two police vans (repurposed into memorials for the dead) while the latter deployed pepper spray and batons.
Pinochet's Chile is presented in propaganda as a free market paradise. But it could only survive via state bailouts and a militarised state more interventionist then Allende ever was. Factories had police cells, communities were monitored, associations spread "correct" values etc
Putin's Russia is dominated by a coalition of military officers, FSB operatives, oligarchs and regional powers. Its economy including many strategic industries are privatised and yet rely on and are in service to a power state machine intolerant of any citizen input intervention.