PugJesus"You don't mind if we actually give power back to the workers, do you, big bro USSR?"
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev with a teddy bear, East Germany, ~1961?
Tom Stoneham"Earlier on X, [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei said ..."
Normally I relish a bit of irony, but this is just painful.
But also, how can a country go for the #IronCurtain version of #DigitalSovereignty and not have the technical and political competence to #SelfHost a blog in order to make press releases? Can you imagine #Khrushchev or #Brezhnev using a US platform to make statements?
Man just wants to grow corn
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1548289/man-just-wants-to-grow-corn
bsmall2> .. “we’ve known this might be coming for a week,” Kennedy informed... To refuse public acquiescence would be difficult.. These were obsolete missiles.. slated for withdrawal, soon to be replaced by.. more lethal.. invulnerable #PolarisSubmarines. Kennedy recognized that he would be in an “insupportable position if this becomes [#Khrushchev’s] proposal,”.. because the #TurkishMissiles were useless and were being withdrawn anyway, and because “it’s gonna — to any.. rational man, it will look like a very fair trade.” #ChomskyOnKennedy #KennedyNuclearWar
Putin's IBSThe delegates stated that #Khrushchev's report "contains manipulated facts and false accusations against #Joseph_Stalin, distorting the truth about his state and party activities."
In addition, the #Russian communists are calling on #Putin to "restore the heroic names of #Stalingrad and #Stalingrad region to the city of #Volgograd and the #Volgograd region."
#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691
Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏In the US, we are taught the Cuban Missile Crisis was probably the closest humanity came to nuclear war: the infamous "Thirteen Days." Against the advice of his more aggressive military advisors, JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba and (quietly) agreed to withdraw American warheads from Turkey. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev added the condition that we never invade Castro's Cuba. Deal done. 🤝
That story is broadly accurate, but would the Soviets have gone to war for Cuba? Was there a panic on the streets of Moscow? Did they even consider it a "crisis"?
Khrushchev's son gave a very interesting interview in 2012 on these questions:
https://news.usni.org/2012/10/24/soviet-perspective-cuban-missile-crisis-nikita-khrushchevs-son
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#history #ushistory #coldwar #sovietunion #ussr #Cuba #1960s #khrushchev #jfk #cubanmissilecrisis
