80 years ago at the orders of #Stalin the #Crimean Tatars -around 220 thousand of them,- were deported to Central Asia. Nearly half of them died en route or in the first few years of their forced exile.
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.
As well, since 1945, the USSR had a spy ring within Yugoslavia[128] and Stalin attempted to assassinate Tito several times. Stalin remarked "I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito".[129] However, these assassinations would fail, and Tito would write back to Stalin "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."[130] Yugoslavia would go on to become one of the main founders and leaders the Non-Aligned Movement.[131]
Today in Labor History April 1, 1976: Surrealist artist, Max Ernst, died. In addition to his artwork, he was an anti-Fascist, who was literally chased out of France by the Gestapo. He opposed Stalin’s Moscow trials. And much of his art had anti-Fascist and anti-Stalinist themes. He produced his painting “Fireside Angel” (or “Angel of the Hearth and Home”) after the Spanish Republicans were defeated by the Fascists. Ernst said, “Now this was naturally an ironic title for a sort of ungainly beast that tramples down and destroys everything in its path. It was the impression I had at the time of what was likely to happen in the world, and I was right.”
German mathematician Emmy Noether was born #OTD in 1882.
One of her most significant contributions is Noether's Theorem, which establishes a fundamental connection between symmetries & conservation laws in physics. This theorem has had profound implications in fields such as quantum mechanics, particle physics & field theory. Despite facing discrimination as a woman in academia during her time, Noether persevered & made enduring contributions to mathematics and physics.
After the Nazis took power she tried to go back to the #SovietUnion but she failed.
On the other hand, her brother Fritz was able to move to the Soviet Union, but then he was arrested during #Stalin's Great Purge and subsequently he was killed in a mass execution ordered by the #Soviet regime.
Gifted article, 30 days, [The New York Times]: Re-Stalinization of a Moscow Subway Station
A central Moscow subway station reopened this week after a restoration that included words of praise to Joseph Stalin, adding new fuel to a debate about the Soviet dictator’s role in Russian history. By Sophia Kishkovsky, Aug. 27, 2009
Just like #Stalin ignored warnings from western intelligence that Hitler was about to attack The Soviet Union in 1941 and dismissed it as "provocation", #Putin did the same thing with warnings about today's terrorist attack in Moscow. He was warned by the British and the Americans over a week ago, that something was brewing in Islamist circles and did nothing. Now he is surely going to blame in on Ukraine regardless.
How #water is used as a weapon of war following #Russia ’s invasion of #Ukraine . An irrigation system, once created at #Stalin ’s order as a project of grand #Soviet social engineering, is now running dry. We dig into the history of the #Crimean water dispute - the surprising twists and turns and the narratives constructed by both Russia and Ukraine, on #TheGlobalJigsaw:
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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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The TV channel “Russia,” on the initiative of N. S. Mikhalkov, is showing a project called “the main elections.” I don’t quite understand these elections. They show on the screen 12 people who, according to the project leaders, have glorified Russia the most with their deeds, and whose name will be identical to the...
They are all, bar Livni and Herzog, key members of Israel’s War Cabinet. Livni is Israel’s former Foreign Minister & Ambassador to London and Herzog is President of Israel.
They are all, bar Livni and Herzog, key members of Israel’s War Cabinet. Livni is Israel’s former Foreign Minister & Ambassador to London and Herzog is President of Israel.
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My problem with liberal anticommunist historians is that if anything they are not critical enough [of the] Stalinist regime. They reduce it to bad people who wanted money, power, whatever. (...) Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It’s that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.
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Today in Labor History March 9, 1879: Anarchist militant and IWW organizer, Carlo Tresca, was born. Tresca was an outspoken opponent of fascism in Germany and Italy, and of Soviet Communism. He was one of the main organizers of the Patterson Silk Strike. He was assassinated in 1943 by an unknown assailant, presumably a fascist or the Mafia. Some believe the Soviets killed him in retaliation for his criticism of Stalin. The most recent research suggests it was the Bonanno crime family, in response to his criticism of the mafia and Mussolini.
#OnThisDay, March 5, in 1953, leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin passed away after being incapacitated by a stroke several days before. His ministers scrambled for power in his absence (The Death of Stalin, 2017)
Today in #SpyHistory - On March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union since 1924, died of a massive heart attack on Moscow. Stalin ruthlessly turned the Soviet Union into a superpower—at the cost of possibly 20 million lives.
»Wer die Ära des Stalinismus und das Wirken Stalins wahrheitsgetreu darstellt, der schreibt die Geschichte nicht gegen, sondern für den Kommunismus um.«
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You are interpreting a racial bias that simple isn't there in the article:
Both, #Hitler and #Stalin would be "White"--an invention of early 20th century US right-wingers.
Hitler was #Austrian by birth , Stalin #Georgian.
Being from eastern #Georgia (Gori) you could argue, that he was Asian, however, as Georgia belonged to the #RussianEmpire at that time, this distinction would be anachronistic, and thus irrelevant, in my view. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gori,_Georgia
Thalapathy Vijay announced his political party named 'Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam' the actor made the big announcement after his fan club gave a nod to the formation of the political party in a meeting held in Chennai last week .
"On 13 January 1953, the #USSR-based newspapers Pravda and Izvestiya reported that #Soviet Union Premier Joseph #Stalin had arrested nine #doctors, six of whom were #Jewish, for conspiring to assassinate the country’s political leadership. The “killer doctors,” as they were referred to, were accused of being members of the U.S. and British intelligence services and of serving the interests of international #Jewry."
DON'T CREATE AN IDOL FOR YOURSELF (media.kbin.social)
The TV channel “Russia,” on the initiative of N. S. Mikhalkov, is showing a project called “the main elections.” I don’t quite understand these elections. They show on the screen 12 people who, according to the project leaders, have glorified Russia the most with their deeds, and whose name will be identical to the...
Tamil Actor Vijay Launches Political Party, Names it 'Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam' (newshint.in)
Thalapathy Vijay announced his political party named 'Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam' the actor made the big announcement after his fan club gave a nod to the formation of the political party in a meeting held in Chennai last week .