#soviet memes

[sunflowerchan20232004]

[historynerdj2]

History Memes #74

[pixoplanet]

It's September 5th. On this day in 1958, Boris Pasternak’s historical novel "Doctor Zhivago" was published in America. The book was set during the tumultuous period of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev argued that it romanticized the pre-Revolution Russian upper class and degraded the peasants and workers who fought against the czarist regime. He banned the book in the Soviet Union, but it became an instant classic throughout the rest of the world and won Pasternak the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Pasternak experienced very little of the fame and glory that ordinarily accompanies a Nobel Prize, however. Khrushchev refused to let Pasternak accept his award and expelled him from the Soviet Writers Union to boot, effectively ending his writing career. Pasternak died two years later. "Doctor Zhivago," on the other hand, refused to die. In 1965, influential British director David Lean made the best seller into a blockbuster Hollywood movie starring Egyptian actor Omar Sharif in the title role.  In 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev righted Khrushchev's wrongs. He posthumously readmitted Pasternak into the Writer's Union and allowed his book to be published in his homeland. ☮️ Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

[thetrashpalace]

My sister was watching Bubble Guppies and I caught this clip. “USS-Recyclers”, the creators of the show have a sense of humor... they also like Star Trek.

[illazilla]

Swipe right if you want to meet up for coffee and maybe take down the bourgeoisie?

[deadsummerdays]

I understand enough of the Russian to know that the subtitles don’t match up exactly with the dialogue, but would any of my fluent friends feel up to translating (or at least telling me how far off the dialogue and subtitles are in meaning)?

[spaghetti-botticelli]

[hkthatgffan]

The Cold War in a nutshell