FeohTIL that #Soviet special forces used to heavily train with a battle #shovel (spade to be more precise I guess):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPL-50
The world is a curious place, don't you think? :)
MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History December 27, 1918: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) seized 7 airplanes, establishing an Insurgent Air Fleet. The RIAU was an anarchist peasant army led by Nestor Makhno. During the Ukrainian War of Independence, they created a stateless libertarian communist society known as the Free Territory, or Makhnovshchina. Roughly 7 million people lived there. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State. They implemented a system of common land ownership among the peasantry and they established hospitals, schools and children’s communes. Their influence extended over nearly one-third of the country.
In 1919, Trotsky banned the 4th Ukrainian Congress of Free Soviets with Order #1824. He also declared Nestor Makhno an outlaw. In 1920, the Bolsheviks began attacking Makhnovshchina, after the Maknovists had defeated White Army, their common enemy. But many soldiers in the Red Army defected and joined the Makhnovists in their fight against the Bolsheviks. Nevertheless, the Bolsheviks ultimately crushed Makhnovshchina in 1921. Nester Makhno barely escaped, and with serious injuries. He died in exile in Paris, July 25, 1934.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #NestorMakhno #ukraine #soviet #russia #ussr #bolshevik #communism #Makhnovia
MarkIn December alone, more than 150 foreign nationals from 25 countries were identified as having been recruited into the #Russian army, with about 200 more preparing to join, said Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service.
Ivashchenko added that recruitment efforts are concentrated largely in post-#Soviet states and countries in the Global South, including #Belarus, #Tajikistan, #Uzbekistan, #Cuba, #Kenya , and #China.
Dr Pink#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 2 hours ago
Gennady Trifonov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Trifonov
Gennady Trifonov (1944 According to Trifonov's research, more than 60,000 people were arrested under Soviet anti-homosexuality laws
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991
Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing
Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism
Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:
Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella
We must defeat #plutocracy in the West
The Soviet way is not the way
Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay
DotJPig#fanart #союзмультфильм #digitalart #soviet #russian #comics #fanart #чиполлино #doodle #russiancartoon #sovietcartoon #soyuzmultfilm
Пересматривал годноту и снова поперло на творчество. Фильм так вообще мрачняк от вписывания людей в лор и желание целой разумной расы быть сожранными людьми. А так база, особенно сейчас. У нас.
Obsidian Urbex PhotographyAn abandoned Soviet-era radio-electronics school in Latvia that was a key Cold War training centre for military engineers.
Built in the 1960s, it operated during Latvia’s time as a Soviet republic and closed soon after the country achieved independence in 1991.
Inside, the building still carries clear Soviet traces. Posters, fragments paperwork with Cyrillic text remain scattered and torn.
#Latvia #History #ColdWar #Photography #Soviet #Abandoned #Urbex #UrbanExploration
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDThe #Soviet #supersonic passenger aircraft #Tu144 entered its brief commercial service #ThisDayInHistory in 1975. Though substantially different, Tu-144 is often called a knock-off of Anglo-French #Concorde, which débuted a few months after the faster and larger Soviet aeroplane.
Donald Roy@CaymanPilot @drip_drip_drip @randahl
One does not need to feel any enthusiasm for the current regime in #venezuela to call out what appears to be a remarkably anachronistic revival of something known as 'booty imperialism'. #bootyimperialism is a term I encountered when reading 'Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy' by #josephschumpeter many years ago. He applied it to #soviet policy in #manchuria and elsewhere in the late 1940s. Seizing foreign oilfields would fit this description.
LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴Today is the 34th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a little luck we will see the desintegration of Russia, too.
