EL PAÍS: el periódico global [Unofficial]Las millonarias colecciones de vino de Napoleón y Stalin salen a subasta
The Japan TimesHungary's history from the 1956 revolution to Viktor Orban's defeat reinforces for China's leaders that even limited political openness can trigger challenges to one-party rule. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/05/05/world/orban-defeat-lesson-for-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #viktororban #hungary #russia #vladimirputin #communistparty #ccp #josefstalin
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD#JosefStalin, long-serving leader of the #USSR, died on #ThisDayInHistory in 1953 from a cerebral haemorrhage. With a legacy that continues to be debated, #Stalin arguably doomed the Soviet experiment by fostering a paranoid cult of personality and undermining #socialist ideals.
Following the Soviet invasion of Poland, authorization for the #KatynMassacre — a genocidal murder of 25,700 #Polish intellectuals & officers — was given on #ThisDayInHistory in 1940, when six members of the Politburo, #JosefStalin included, signed an order approving the action.
The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment [Unofficial]The 'world's best city' takes just three hours to get to with £35 UK flights
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Soviet leader #JosefStalin on #ThisDayInHistory in 1929 ordered "liquidation of the kulaks as a class". "#Kulak", meaning fist, lumped together better-off peasants, who had to be removed to clear the way for #collectivization. People were killed for owning as little as a chicken.
The mad Präsident#Skepsis ist eine gute Sache. Mehr davon hätte #Hitler und den #Holocaust verhindert, die Karrieren mörderischer #Politpsychopathen wie #MaoZedong und #JosefStalin vorzeitig beendet und sechzigtausend angebliche #Hexen vor dem #Scheiterhaufen gerettet.
(Aus: Was, wenn wir einfach die Welt retten?)
Father EnochIn #Highschool I was in a class that watched an #HBO movie about #JosefStalin, starring #RobertDuvall.
I don't remember much of it, but I do remember a scene where a man who just found out he was no longer in Stalin's favour, pointed to his replacement and said; "Your time will come."
For #MTG, it seems the time has finally come.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1927, #LeonTrotsky was formally expelled from the #CommunistParty. He had been a towering figure in the #RussianRevolution and early #USSR, and removing him cleared the way for #JosefStalin to consolidate power. Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico in 1940.
Cisma en el mundo MAGA por el blanqueamiento de Tucker Carlson del discurso supremacista y antisemita de un joven ‘podcaster’
