Daily reminder that the German Communist Party called the Nazi Party "Working People's Comrades" in their alliance against the dastardly democratic socialists 😊

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2103710/daily-reminder-that-the-german-communist-party-called-the-nazi-party-working-people-s-c

[Part 1] In 1952, Soviet Russia executed three young students on fabricated charges

https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/part-1-in-1952-soviet-russia-executed-three-young-students-on-fabricated-charges-ff8e4440b73b
#stalin #stalinism #history #soviethistory #russia

Russia imposes the memory of Stalinism’s executioners over that of its victims.

Russian propaganda equates the aggression against Ukraine with defending the USSR from German invaders in World War II from 1941.

The profound difference between the two conflicts does not matter.

The banning of Memorial, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate organisation, is a qualitative step by the Kremlin to monopolise the interpretation of history

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260531-russia-imposes-the-memory-of-stalinisms-executioners-over-that-of-its-victims?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Russia #History #WarInUkraine #Stalinism

The Turning Point by Otto Lacis

When farmers lease plots of land in abandoned villages today, the state of desolation they find there is amazing. Those villages are found in areas that were occupied by the enemy during the war and also in regions that the enemy did not reach. The desolation and neglect have nothing to do with the war. They were caused by the Great Turn imposed on the nation by Stalin—the turn that crushed the peasants’ initiative, diligence and desire to work.

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Today in Labor History May 24, 1940: Iosef Grigulevich, under orders from Stalin, attempted to assassinate Leon Trotsky in Coyoacan, Mexico, with the aid of the Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. He failed miserably, only wounding Trotsky’s young grandson in the foot. Pablo Neruda helped him escape the Mexican authorities. Later that year, Spanish-born NKVD agent Ramón Mercader assassinated Trotsky with an ice axe. This, of course, led to the parody political slogan: A chicken in every pot and an ice pick in every Trot.

Grigulevich was a Soviet secret police (NKVD) agent who was active from 1937-1953. He was born in 1913 to Jewish parents in Vilnius, Lithuania, in the Pale—the region where Jews were restricted within the Russian Empire—(hence the saying: Beyond the Pale). In the 1930s, he had worked in Spain as a Soviet spy, reporting on the activities of suspected anti-fascists, like George Orwell and CNT labor organizer Andres Nin; the latter of whom he murdered in 1937. In the 1950s, he was directed to assassinate Tito, in Yugoslavia. However, he aborted that mission when Stalin died.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #iosefgrigulevich #soviet #communism #stalin #trotsky #anarchism #spain #civilwar #fascism #antifascism #stalinism