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Kremlin Wall Necropolis - Moscow / Москва ( Russia )

Trans-Siberian Railway travel

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The wickedness of Soviet Communism

After watching documentaries about Dmitri Shostakovich and Mstislav Rostropovich (both friends), I am struck afresh by the wickedness of the Soviet Communism regime and all Communism itself. 

The fundamental deceit of “equality” through force (not through justice) was used as a smokescreen in order to repress, intimidate, censor, starve and murder countless people. To see even champions of Soviet Communism, such as Shostakovich and Rostropovich treated like pariahs despite the professed “equality” is shocking. The treatment of Solzhenitsyn, too, a voice of conscience, exposing the true inhumanity of Communism, exposed this deceit. 

Rostropovich gave Solzhenitsyn shelter and intended to publish a letter complaining about censorship. Although he never published the letter, his reputation suffered as a result. He was banned from performing in recognized venues and effectively ostracized. This repudiates the oft-repeated claim that Soviet Communism encouraged the best and brightest-- only if you stayed within the Party Line. 

Shostakovich was disgraced for writing “cacophonous” music that didn’t fully reflect the fiction of greatness that Stalin wished to perpetuate. Despite being a loyal subject, he too, faced crushing pressure to conform and subvert his creative endeavours to suit the great Communist myth. 

How ordinary, decent Russians lived through these horrors is beyond me. One of the most shocking parts of the Shostakovich documentary was one of his daughters recalling that she was told never to repeat what her father said inside his house outside-- not even to friends. Galina Rostropovich recalled that during the War, an entire group of men were executed for resisting the Party line, and she feared the same would happen to Rostropovich. 

Communism has never had anything to do with equality or rights. It is a vile ideology that subverts the uniqueness and rights of the individual under the tyranny of fabricated “equality”-- in which one dictator decides who shall be equal and who shall not. As the great Orwell wrote in Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

[omniatlas]

Northern Eurasia 95 years ago today: Death of Lenin (21 Jan 1924) https://buff.ly/2FLfV1L Following a number of strokes and possibly still weakened from a 1918 assassination attempt, Lenin died a year after the founding of the Soviet Union. He was succeeded by a troika made up of Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Joseph Stalin, a man he distrusted and had privately denounced. #northerneurasia #history #welovemaps #map #1920s #1924 #january #january21 #ussr #sovietunion #russiancivilwar #russianhistory #bolshevism #maps #russianrevolution #lenin #vladimirlenin #josefstalin #stalin #todayinhistory #historytoday #historyteacher #historybuff #historynerd #historygeek #europeanhistory #worldhistory #historicalatlas #communism #bolshevik (at Moscow, Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs4yHp1gro6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vfdl88wnuz1q

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Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori ( Georgia ) 

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Ich sehe jetzt diesen unglaublichen Dokumentarfilm über Dmitri Shostakovich. 

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Northern Eurasia 82 years ago today: Anti-Comintern Pact (25 Nov 1936) https://buff.ly/2PRTCgV Even more concerning to the Soviets than Japan’s occupation of Manchuria, the deeply anti-Communist Adolf Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933 and set about rearming Germany. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Stalin supported the incumbent Republicans while Hitler aided their Nationalist rivals. That same year, Germany joined Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact, a thinly veiled alliance against the Soviet Union. #northerneurasia #history #welovemaps #map #1930s #1936 #chinesecivilwar #nazigermany #japaneseempire #november #november25 #ussr #russianhistory #sovietunion #communism #josefstalin #stalin #adolfhitler #maps #axispowers #axispower #todayinhistory #historytoday #historybuff #historyteacher #europeanhistory #worldhistory #historynerd #historygeek #worldwar2 (at Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqmE35UgGkM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nczd600ws0b9

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Em um dia como este, mas em 1927, era condenado ao exílio Leon Trotsky, um dos políticos mais reconhecidos da revolução russa. Com ideias distantes da de Stálin, Trotsky entrou numa disputa pela hegemonia do poder no partido, porém por não estar adaptado a burocratização e verticalização que o partido havia adquirido acabou perdendo a disputa para Stalin que logo fez questão de o exilar e também criar algumas informações falsas sobre ele, como por exemplo dizer que Trotsky havia se aliado com os nazistas e japoneses. Trotsky, após se mudar para Europa fez oposição de longe, mas sem nunca deixar de ser observado pela máquina criada para perseguir opositores. Logo Stalin se tornou um ditador e concentrou o poder em suas mãos dando início a um momento que ficou conhecido como era do terror russa. Trotsky deixava claro seu repúdio ao que considerava deturpação do marxismo e fuga do caráter democrático da revolução. No México organizou oposição enquanto morou na casa do pintor Diego Rivera, porém, após alguns desentendimentos entre ele e o pintor em questões políticas e um suposto romance com a então esposa do pintor Frida Kahlo ele foi morar em outro lugar. Em 1940, depois de escapar de uma tentativa de assassinato, acabou não conseguindo escapar de um segundo em 20 de agosto do mesmo ano sendo morto a mando do ditador soviético. Dica: Caso haja dificuldade na leitura, faça o movimento de pinça 👌 em cima da imagem para aumentá-la. 😉 #Historia #comunismo #urss #stalin #josefstalin #trotsky #leontrotsky #ww2 #fatoshistoricos #enem #vestibular #vestibulinho #hojenahistoria #hoje #gulag https://www.instagram.com/p/CmVLwuUNpAH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. #JosefStalin #Josef #Stalin #quote #sinetos #quotes