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Lilli East German/Polish tme (cis)

[lilkakow]

Prague at night during socialist times

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Photographer Masahisa Fukase had a cat named Sasuke that he would take everywhere with him and photographfor his series "Sasuke!l Dear Cat" (1979)

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cats are instinctively attracted to laptops because of the heat they give off

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this is what a bug sees when confronted by a cat

[lilkakow]

The Didgori Battle Memorial, on top of the Didgori mountain, Georgia. Designed by Merab Berdzenishvili, the graveyard of giant steel swords and warriors commemorates battle of Didgori fought 900 years ago.

[nobrashfestivity]

Andrey Avinoff Icon, Anti Communist Subject [Apocalyptic scene with hammer and sickle], 1940

[lilkakow]

Sometimes I forget Letterboxd is a largely american dominated website

This made me remember

[zitongzi]

Is beknf qieer even illegal on east germany or are the whites just making shit up again

[lucifer-usurping-sun-of-dawn]

no it was rlly good abt it, not that I know much, but I've heard the rights were better than even many western countries in the modern day, the annexation stripped a lotta rights from queers

[stalinist-small-business-owner]

It is especially egregious because a lot of the queer people in east germany lost the protections after the fall of the Berlin Wall and faced mass prosecution.

[flowerlygirls]

gay and bisexual people*

not only is it crazy disrespectful to call them a slur, i can also promise you sodomy laws and similar did not affect any self identified genderqueers or aromantics or nonbinaries or whatever

[clytemnestradidnothingwrong]

Posts that very blatantly reveal the privilege and ignorance of Westerners.

[lilkakow]

Almost no one in this thread is a westerner btw

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Swimming pool in East Berlin, 1976.

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Red Army soldiers kiss after the victory over Nazi Germany is declared, 1945

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"Blossom, Buryatia!" Soviet poster about the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution

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Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko as a soldier of the KGB border troops of the USSR (1975)

[lilkakow]

"Get stronger, Soviet-Arab friendship!", Soviet Poster, 1970

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Air ambulance doctors rush to a call in a mountain village. Uzbek SSR. 1970s. Photo by: A. Vanshtein

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"Build as if for yourself", Soviet poster from the perestroika era

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Do not get distracted (Soviet Poster, 1986)

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A soldier of the limited contingent of the Soviet Army on his native land after the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Uzbek SSR, Termez, August 1988

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Soviet gymnast and three-time Olympic champion Olga Korbut and her cat Murashka in Grodno, Byelorussian SSR, 1972