Are we ready to demonstrate options that at least superficially resemble the #Buran spacecraft we buried back in the #Soviet_Union? Meanwhile, #Boeings are flying.
#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691
From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en
Foreign Minister #Sikorski:
For us, #Russian aggression against #Ukraine is fundamental, existential. We feel threatened by #Russia. #Russia has waged war, occupied us, wiped us off the map for over a century. So when they threaten us, we believe them.
And they've now spent longer than the #Soviet_Union fought the #Nazis trying to conquer #Ukraine. By our estimates, they've already suffered opportunity costs of a trillion dollars fighting this war
@benroyce
The Western critique of the USSR and its conflation with Russian Imperialism is naïve at best. The Soviet socialist experiment is neither like today's nor Tsarist Russia. The soviet experiment has transformed that region holistically. Both culturally and economically, Soviet Republics (along with Warsaw Pact countries) have seen great development in industry & science. It should be, for a bit of fairness, worthy of interest to understand how the Soviet republics (and Russia specifically) which had almost 0 colonies outside of Europe were able to rival European and North American powers after suffering the many losses of the World Wars. Not to mention the successes of feminism and the economic empowerment of women in those regions that served to inspire 2nd-wave feminism.
Practice, however, remains the sole criterion of truth, and the truth is that we no longer have the Soviet Union. It had stagnated and collapsed for many reasons. It is rightfully dumbfounded to ignore its successes and its dynamics with the American-led empire. In theory, we can and should criticize both in hopes of improving both. In practice, we have to make critical alliances with one side over the other when interests are at extreme odds. Hating both, in such geopolitical climates, is contrarian at best, but far from practicable in the modest sense.
#marxism #Soviet_Union #capitalism #socialism #leninism #communism
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There were no reparations for the occupation and annexation of #Lithuania and the other #Baltic_states by the #Soviet_Union under the #Molotov_Ribbentrop_Pact.
#Putin and his regime, since the outset, acted as if those crimes had never happened. This denial and impunity have only encouraged #Russia's repeated aggression against #Georgia in 2008, against #Ukraine in 2014, and again in 2022," FM said.
#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691
"#russia must be made to admit and pay for their crimes, both historical and present!"🤮
From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en
The #Soviet_Union's impunity for the occupation of the #Baltic_states in the 1940s is one of the reasons behind #Putin's actions. #Lithuanian Foreign Minister #Kęstutis_Budrys said.
"Our history teaches us how vital accountability and reparations are for international wrongful acts.
probably a bit of a pro-USSR bias, but a useful counterpoint to the anti-USSR bias in most sources in English
https://youtu.be/IVjQrceheXQ?si=-1dwDl34hXzH_2D1
#Holodomor (the great famine in #Ukraine) was an act of #genocide or failed polices?
You're welcome to comment. Please like and share it, so that more people know the history how it really was.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nastasime/p/holodomor-genocide-or-failed-policy
"So once a liar, always a liar!"🤣🤣🤣
From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en
In 1982, #Soviet propagandists said that the #Soviet_Union is a powerful economy with rich resources, which will make it through blockades and sanctions.
In less than 10 years, the #Soviet_Union collapsed.
#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691
Apartments and houses of killed or driven out #Ukrainians are now settled by #Russians.
Two days ago, #Putin endorsed the idea of granting one hectare of occupied #Ukrainian land free of charge to participants of the "special military operation" in the so-called "#Donetsk People's Republic", "#Luhansk People's Republic", #Zaporizhzhia, and #Kherson regions.
This tactic of deportations and resettlements was widely used by the #Soviet_Union.
"Yeah, let's reboot the #soviet_union because that worked so well last time!"🤣🤣🤣
From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en
📹 A #Russian woman shared that she was forcibly moved from #Berdsk, #Russia's #Novosibirsk region, to #Russian-occupied #Berdiansk and given about $95 to live there.
#Russians are abducting #Ukrainian children from the occupied territories and taking them deep into #Russia while also resettling #Ukrainians’ cities with #Russians.
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