After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
Many African leaders, #SouthAfricas included, had deep ties with the #SovietUnion during the late 20th C. During their time as a revolutionary party in exile, the #Soviets helped back the #africannationalcongress who went on to rule S. Africa for the past 30 years.
But Johnny was reminded of his father’s words when his professor at his university in Kyiv started reminiscing about life in the #SovietUnion : “They did well. Everyone had a job. They made the society more stable. It was better than #Capitalism,” he recalls the professor saying. “Those words are the same as my father has always said about #china Johnny told the #TheCounteroffensive — while wearing a necklace representing Ukraine wrapped with blue and yellow cotton rope.
When #BorisYeltsin, the all-too-eager puppet of Washington, D.C. was maneuvered into power as the #SovietUnion collapsed, a decade of #Western plunder of #Russia followed. This video gives a brief history.
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New Russian high school textbooks – introduced in August 2023 on the instruction of President Vladimir Putin – attempt to whitewash Stalinist crimes and rehabilitate the Soviet Union’s legacy.
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Putin’s efforts to redeem the Soviet past may help explain why Stalin is up in the polls, with 63% of Russians asked in June 2023 expressing a positive attitude toward the Soviet dictator.
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Much of the analysis of the reshuffle in the Russian government seems to be missing how much it is about coup-proofing Putin's regime rather than making smart decisions for Russia.
#Khrushchev once said that one of his greatest accomplishments as leader of the #SovietUnion was when he promoted #Malenkov to director of a hydroelectric power plant in Kazakhstan and #Kaganovich to director of a potash works in the Urals: he didn't kill them, as #Stalin would have done in his place.
I've recently been cataloguing the papers of Frank Wise, a Labour MP, ILP member, and civil servant who worked as Director of the Soviet Union's Trade Office Centrosoyuz in the 1920s.
Amongst his papers is this photograph of an unidentified man (it isn't Frank!)
The world is shocked—but would be much more shocked had it known what the secret protocol contained and what it would mean for #Poland and the #Baltic states
I can only begin to fathom your despair about the loss of lives, of livelihood, and of your culture.
Most people whose countries were lucky enough not to be forced into the #WarsawPact by the #SovietUnion had probably never heard of the #Holodomor the #Soviets instrumentalized to kill millions of #Ukrainians 90 years ago. And now they are trying to do it again, maybe even on a worse scope.
On December 2nd (2 pm), our Research Training Group will welcome the renowned Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov for a literary reading from this book, “The Dead Lake” (=Wunderkind Erjan).
Where: University of Freiburg / Aula
This reading accompanies our second annual conference, “Environmental and Cultural Destruction in Imperial Spaces”.
The Research Training Group 2571 Empires is hosting its second annual conference from November 30th to December 2nd. This year's topic is "Environmental and Cultural Destruction in Imperial Spaces”.
I guess the #Philippines has the same clueless leftists as #India, who think everything is a US-led conspiracy, and believe #Russia is the same entity as the #SovietUnion, not a fascist dictatorship supporting far-right movements around the world.
Aleksey Batalov (20 November 1928 – 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and pedagogue acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters.
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey Radchenko, 2024
In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the US and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution.