Александр Варма @aleksandrvarma - Tumblr Blog

Baba Yaga or Baba Roga (also known by various other names) is a haggish or witchlike character in Slavic folklore. She flies around on a giant pestle, kidnaps (and presumably eats) small children, and lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs. In most Slavic folk tales, she is portrayed as an antagonist; however, some characters in other mythological folk stories have been known to seek her out for her wisdom, and she has been known on rare occasions to offer guidance to lost souls.

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The team of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center overseeing every step of the launch of Dong Fang Hong 1, the first chinese-made space satellite, from their base in Inner Mongolia, 24 April 1970.

Still frames from the movie "The universe sings «The East is Red»" (宇宙高歌东方红), 1970.

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Student rallies in Tiananmen Square during Cultural Revolution, 1967.

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4-5 April 1976: the Tiananmen Incident.

On 4 April 1976 David Zweig, a canadian student in Beijing, was in Tiananmen Square to observe and capture the growing political unrest in the square, where in preparations for the Qingming Festival - the festival in which chinese people honour their ancestors and sweep their tombs - Beijing citizens gathered to remember the former Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, who passed away earlier in January (see the previous post to read more about the incident).

In the photos of David Zweig we can see not only the sheer number of people and of their memorial wreaths, but also the presence of many young people equipped with cameras, who were rumored to be coming from the families of high-ranking officials (pic. 3), spontaneous speechs given by local workers (pic. 4-5), a young man who had written a promise to defend Zhou Enlai's memory with his own blood on a piece of cloth, showing it to the crowd (pic. 6) and another one who's painting the scene around the monument with his art supplies on his lap (pic. 7).

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He Zizhen and her husband Mao Zedong in Yan'an, 1937.

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in order to keep dominance over the world, the US and Europe have killed 38 million people with sanctions alone in the 51 years from 1970-2021. the imperialist stage of capitalism, which demands the export of capital to exploit compliant and impoverished populations, is a murderous system on a global scale

graph based on the model in this lancet study

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Abbas Araghchi:

These are the graves dug for more than 160 innocent young girls murdered in the US-Israeli bombing of an elementary school.

Their bodies were torn to pieces.

This is the "rescue" promised by Trump, in reality.

Can you draw me a picture of American democracy, Donald?

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Rostock District Administration of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi), 1990.Photos by Siegfried Wittenburg

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Angry crowd of military officers near the Kremlin protesting the incoming break-up of Soviet Armed Forces into various republican armies. January 17, 1992.

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Béla Kun, president of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (in a hat, carrying papers in his left hand), and Commissar for Military Affairs Tibor Számuely (in leather jacket), May Day, 1919.