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this blog is about the union of soviet socialist republics, its arts and culture, its history, and the everyday lives of its people. an exploration of a nation that no longer exists – the world’s first major socialist experiment – and of the lives and the deeds undertaken by its citizens. mainly a gallery of sorts, anything from the soviet period.

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this is primarily a history rather than political blog. i recognize wrongdoings of the soviet state. as this is a politicized historical topic, i will make it clear from the beginning that i am a socialist and am thus approaching from the perspective of a sympathizer. you are allowed to interact even if you disagree with my political views and e.g. see certain aspects of the soviet experience more negatively or positively than i do (again, this is intended to be a digital museum of sorts), but will be blocked for nazi apologia and any other form of ethnic hatred.

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i want to start writing longer-form researched posts eventually but unfortunately probably going to be not very active and post sporadically in the forseeable future

#.txt #intro post #ussr #.txt is original posts

likbez

On this day 84 years ago (22 June 1941), Nazi Germany began its invasion of the USSR. The Soviets would eventually emerge victorious, but this came at a cost of millions of lives. It is estimated that around 27 million Soviet citizens died in the course of this horrible war, around 1/3 being in the military and the rest being civilians, who were deliberately targeted for extermination by the Nazis as part of the genocidal Generalplan Ost. They were ordinary innocent people who deserved to live in peace but had their lives cruelly destroyed by fascist invaders who viewed them as subhuman.

On this day, please remember them.

#someone commented something on this today but i can't see it because they blocked me. can someone else see what they said?#🤔 now a person of what political views would find this post objectionable? let's think... 🤔#who benefits from a historical narrative denying or downplaying this?

Tip: If you comment something on my post and then immediately block me, it no longer shows up on the post, so nobody (including me) can see it...

#it shows up in activity so i can just see the beginning of the comment and tell it was stupid

"the execution of the 26 baku commissars" by isaak brodsky (1925)

historical context (very abridged version): an artistic depiction of the execution of the 26 baku commissars (on 20 september 1918). these were, among others, the bolshevik and left SR members of the baku commune sovnarkom (council of people's commissars) headed by the armenian bolshevik stepan shaumian. they fled baku after the fall of the soviet government in baku but were captured and imprisoned by the centrocaspian dictatorship which now controlled the city. on the night of 14 september, as the dictatorship fell and ottoman forces entered the city, they either broke out of prison or were released after anastas mikoyan successfully convinced abram velunts, an SR member of the committee heading the dictatorship. however, they missed the steamship with a bolshevik crew and had to board the final one leaving the city, which was then rerouted to arrive in krasnovodsk (now türkmenbaşy in turkmenistan) instead of astrakhan. krasnovodsk was controlled by the ashgabat-based menshevik-SR coalition transcaspian provisional government, headed by the SR fyodor funtikov. they were arrested, charged with surrendering baku to the ottomans, and executed. funtikov was arrested in 1925 after being turned in by his daughter, tried in a highly publicized trial (ongoing when this painting was completed), and executed in 1926.

#1920s #art #.txt #.img #civil war #azssr #baku commune

"on the way to tsaritsyn" by mitrofan grekov (1934)

#1930s #art #civil war #the artist unfortunately died later that year #.img

lilkakow

Monument to Bukharan soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War. Uzbek SSR, Bukhara, 1988

#1980s #uzbek ssr #photography #monuments

sovietpaintings

Юность | Youth;

Evgeny Rastorguev, 1957.

#1950s #art

likbez

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They don't put crosses at soldiers' mass graves, And widows don't weep over them, People bring bouquets of flowers to them, And light an Eternal flame. (Chorus) At soldiers' mass graves there are no tearful widows – Tougher people come here. They don't put crosses at soldiers' mass graves, But does that make it any easier!? Once, the earth heaved here, And now there are granite slabs. There is not a single personal fate here – All fates are merged into one. (Chorus) In the eternal flame, you see a burning tank, Burning Russian huts, Burning Smolensk and the burning Reichstag, The burning heart of a soldier. (Chorus)

i imagine many of the deleted comments on that post said stupid things, but i suppose they blocked me and i don't remember what they said. there's only one stupid one left but i never felt like responding to it.

likbez

On this day 84 years ago (22 June 1941), Nazi Germany began its invasion of the USSR. The Soviets would eventually emerge victorious, but this came at a cost of millions of lives. It is estimated that around 27 million Soviet citizens died in the course of this horrible war, around 1/3 being in the military and the rest being civilians, who were deliberately targeted for extermination by the Nazis as part of the genocidal Generalplan Ost. They were ordinary innocent people who deserved to live in peace but had their lives cruelly destroyed by fascist invaders who viewed them as subhuman.

On this day, please remember them.

#from last year