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random yeltsin center stuff, ekaterinburg

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End of a Long Exhausting Day.

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Время пройдёт и ты забудешь, всё что было

С тобой у нас, с тобой у нас

Нет, я не жду тебя

Но знай, что я любила

В последний раз

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October 4th is the 30th anniversary of Yeltsin's armed coup overthrowing Russia's democratically-elected parliament, ending Russia's experiment with democracy and socialism—encouraged, supported & bankrolled by the US & G-7. Ironically the NY Times lead editorial supported what it called "A Democrat's Coup"

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what exactly is historically important in that photo??

Im guessing youre talking about this photo, so buckle up im about to yap

This is boris yeltsin, the last president of the russia SFSR (the russian part of the soviet union in simple terms).

In this photo he is seen at an American grocery store in 1989 during a trip to the US where he traveled to different parts of the US making speeches and talking to ppl etc. in this photo, taken at some random grocery store in Texas, he is seen looking at the abundance of food and goods on the shelves. This was something he was not at all used to, being from the Soviet Union.

The soviet union had these things called bread lines or meat lines, which were long queues that people would stand in to get their groceries. These lines were extemely long most of the time and you would have to stay for extremely long amounts of time to get basic necessities.

EXAMPLE:

Depending on the time period, but most of the time food rationing and scarcity was very popular in the USSR.

it was said that during and after this moment at the grocery store, boris yeltsin was in a complete state of shock, saying

“When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people. That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.”

So yeah this is really significant when talking about the soviet union and the culture of the time there and how the norm in an average american grocery store was a completely foreign and shocking concept to soviets.

This is one of the parts of history that made me realise i am not a communist. This and listening to speeches from survivors of communist regimes (ex. Luong Ung, a woman who survived being a child soldier under the Khmer Rouge and survived the killing fields of cambodia) and reading countless books from historians and scholars about communism and the history of it, even writing two essays of my own about the subject made me feel not aligned with communist ideology and beliefs. I personally identify as a democratic socialist now but i do not push my beliefs onto others.

WARNING: THIS IS ALL ACCORDING TO MY KNOWLEDGE. WHILE I HAVE DONE MANY MANY HOURS OF RESEARCH AND WRITTEN PAPERS ON THE SOVIET UNION, YOU SHOULD ALWAYS EVALUATE OTHER SOURCES BEFORE FORMING YOUR OWN OPINION.

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Moscow: Memorial for those who fell in the October 1993 popular uprising, Oct. 3, 2024.

MOSCOW: Today, October 3, 2024, members of the United Communist Party, the Russian Communist Workers' Party, the Union of Communist Youth, representatives of the "Independent Trade Union New Labor" and others took part in a memorial event dedicated to the popular uprising of October 3-4, 1993.

The events that took place during these days became a turning point in the establishment of an open bourgeois dictatorship in the Russian Federation. The degenerated part of the top of the CPSU, which treacherously put an end to the USSR and socialism in 1991, took a course on bringing the political and administrative structure in line with the needs of the development of the new bourgeois state, which arose on the basis of a raider seizure of public socialist property by a small group of people.

In these conditions, the Supreme Council and the Constitution, rooted in the Soviet era, despite the socialist content formally eliminated after 1991, were an obstacle for the new masters of the country in further strengthening their power and the complete appropriation of all property created by the people. This is precisely why President Boris Yeltsin carried out a coup d'etat, the purpose of which was to liquidate the last, in essence, remnants of Soviet power, real parliamentarism and popular representation.

For going beyond the constitutional field, Yeltsin was removed from office by the decision of the Supreme Council, but thanks to the leadership of the security forces that betrayed the Constitution and the Motherland, he managed to stay in power and successfully complete the coup. During this process, the uprising of the people who came out in Moscow in support of the legitimate government was brutally suppressed and drowned in blood -- thousands of people died.

Even after more than thirty years, the opposition forces do not forget what happened in those tragic days. Representatives of a number of political, trade union and public organizations met in the capital to honor the memory of those who died for Soviet power and to brand with shame the executioners who carried out a bloody forceful cover-up of the process of establishing the dictatorship of bourgeois raiders in our country.

The event was led by the Secretary of the United Communist Party (OKP) Central Committee Denis Sommer. The acting first secretary of the OKP Central Committee Vladimir Lakeev, members of the Russian Communist Workers' Party (RKRP) Artem Buslaev and Vera Basistova spoke.

The participants, as in all previous years, expressed their firm determination to fight to ensure that all those involved in the suppression of the popular uprising, no matter how many decades have passed since the tragic year of 1993, bear severe responsibility for their criminal acts, which have no statute of limitations.

Via United Communist Party

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Moscow, Russia, October 3, 1993. Supporters of Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoy and Chairman of the parliament Ruslan Khasbulatov outside the occupied Russian parliament, “White House”. Photo by Leo Erken.