Recently #Declassified #Soviet Video Shows the Biggest #Nuclear Explosion in #History
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/629591/watch-russian-video-of-largest-hydrogen-bomb-ever-detonated

The Computer That Controlled Chernobyl https://hackaday.com/2023/09/06/the-computer-that-controlled-chernobyl/ #retrocomputing #chernobyl #soviet #v-30m

The Computer That Controlled Chernobyl - When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl, now), you think of the nuclear accident... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/06/the-computer-that-controlled-chernobyl/ #retrocomputing #chernobyl #soviet #v-30m

Наши, так называемые союзники, те, кто был в теме, тихо содрогнулись. Потом правда решили - "Может показалось?" И чтобы удостовериться, во время Корейской войны провели имитацию атомной бомбардировки СССР. Собрали все имеющиеся в регионе стратегические бомбардировщики (те самые, что бомбили Хиросиму), прикрыли их новейшими реактивными истребителями и эту армаду в количестве 120 самолётов бросили на какой-то подвернувшийся объект в Корее.
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1285565
#USSR #russian #soviet #history

Today in Labor History September 4, 1949: The Peekskill riots at a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. A mob of locals attacked concert-goers with baseball bats and rocks. Police arrived hours later and did little to intervene. Thirteen people were seriously injured, Robeson was lynched in effigy and a cross was burned on the hillside. Robeson was well known for his strong pro-trade union stance, civil rights activism, communist affiliations and anti-colonialism. He also had been increasingly vocal against the Ku Klux Klan and other forces of white supremacy. The concert was a benefit for the Civil Rights Congress. Just prior to the riots, Robeson had spoken at Soviet-sponsored World Peace Conference in Paris, where he said the following:

“We in America do not forget that it was on the backs of white workers from Europe and on the backs of millions of blacks that the wealth of America was built. And we are resolved to share it equally. We reject any hysterical raving that urges us to make war on anyone. Our will to fight for peace is strong.... We shall support peace and friendship among all nations, with Soviet Russia and the People's Republics.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #peekskill #NewYork #Riot #racism #communism #anticommunism #PaulRobeson #soviet #ussr #police #colonialism #peace #antiwar #union #CivilRights

Old #Soviet #satellite breaks apart in #orbit after space debris collision...
https://www.space.com/soviet-satellite-breaks-apart-after-debris-strike
The problem is that even a #space junk fragment as small as 0.4 inches can cause serious damage. In 2016, a #SpaceDebris fragment only a few millimeters wide punched a 16-inch (40 cm) wide hole into one of the solar panels of Europe's Earth-observing satellite #Sentinel2.

Today in Labor History August 31, 1919: John Reed and others formed the Communist Labor Party of America in Chicago. The party evolved into the American Communist Party. Reed was a journalist and communist activist who extensively covered World War I. He was most famous for his coverage of the Russian Revolution and his book, “Ten Days That Shook the World.” He died in Moscow in 1920 from typhus. They gave him a hero’s welcome and buried him in Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Only two other American were given this honor: Big Bill Haywood, a founding member of the IWW, and C.E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Communist Party USA.

John Dos Passos included a short biography of him in his “U.S.A.” trilogy. Uptain Sinclair called him the Revolution’s Playboy, elements of which can be seen in Warren Beaty’s portrayal of Reed in the film, “Reds.” Sergei Eisenstein made a film version of “Ten Days That Shook the World” in 1927.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #JohnReed #communism #russia #ussr #soviet #kremlin #IWW #journalism #writer #author #books @bookstadon

This #podcast episode covering famous anti- #soviet snipers is super hella interesting.

I learned a lot about #Finnish #culture already. The other sniper is from #Ukraine

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4MElX8RbQVUWehvOB0VLhC?si=K39dI7SASk2sS-YQnze7QA

Changes in pension scheme leave Georgians worried about their savings.
There is a persistent distrust towards long-term saving schemes in #Georgia, tracing back to post-#Soviet financial shocks.
https://eurasianet.org/changes-in-pension-scheme-leave-georgians-worried-about-their-savings

Today in Labor History August 28, 1921: The Soviet Red Army dissolved the stateless Anarchist Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine. The anarchist rebel leader, Nester Makhno, barely escaped, and with serious injuries.

The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno), lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

Michael Moorcock’s “A Nomad of the Time Streams” is a steampunk/alternative history novel where Makhno survives into the 1940s.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #ukraine #anarchism #AnCom #AnarchoCommunism #NestorMakhno #soviet #books #SteamPunk #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon

Mark Weber on the Bolshevik Revolution and the horrors and complete stupidity of communism
https://odysee.com/@jermwarfare:2/Mark-Weber-Russia:3
#history #politics #ussr #jews #soviet #russia #elite #war #revolution #communism #religion #stalin #lenin #culture #society #world

Turning Soviet Electronics into a Nixie Tube Clock - Sometimes you find something that looks really cool but doesn’t work, but that’s a... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/27/turning-soviet-electronics-into-a-nixie-tube-clock/ #clockhacks #teardown #vintage #soviet #clock #nixie #retro

Kyiv, Moscow’s opposing attitudes toward Soviet past shape two different futures

The decision to remove the Soviet statue’s symbols is a watershed moment in Kyiv’s years-long de-communization program: a movement that has seen Ukraine purposely distance itself from old Soviet ties to reclaim and reassert its independent culture, identity, and future.

https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-moscows-opposing-attitudes-toward-soviet-past-shape-two-different-futures/

#Ukraine #Russia #USSR #SovietUnion #Soviet #culture #symbols #Kremlin

Another MP and dissident, Yaroslav Kendzor, explains why. He says that after the failure of the 1991 coup in #Moscow against #Gorbachev, many #Soviet republics decided to break away.

However, in almost every parliament, the communists had a majority, and #Ukraine was no exception.

Therefore, before voting for the Act of Independence of Ukraine, it was necessary to obtain the support of the Communists, who did not want the collapse of the USSR and the creation of other sovereign states.

Yurii is a child of WW2.

His childhood was not easy.

His father was shot dead for trying to create an underground radio station for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a force that battled both #German and #Soviet occupations as part of an early independence movement.

And a year later, his mother was arrested for feeding the Insurgent Army guys dinner.

His grandparents raised him in the village.

I remember how the joy and relief over the end of the #coup (of what it seemed back then a last ditch attempt to drag back hundreds of millions of people into a #Soviet thinking, attitudes and life) was mixed with fear and disbelief that they might have not gone away. I was looking at the massive KGB hq, towering over us in the dark, and thought how many of them in there might look at us, jubilating crowds, with fear too...

And as for us, those thousands out on the streets of #Moscow following the #Soviet #GKChP coup 32 years ago #OTD , we gathered at #Lubyanka square at night, in front of the #KGB hq and took down the statue of ChK founder known as Iron #Felix ( #Dzherzhinsky ) - there are serious attempts in #Putin 's #Russia to reinstate it back there (cont.)

Momentous events happened 32 years ago #OTD in the aftermath of the 1991 #Soviet #GKChP coup: two days after #Gorbachev 's return from his house arrest in #Foros in #Crimea , he resigned as the general secretary of the #Communist party, the #CPSU

In #Kyiv (back then Kiev) the Rada of #Ukraine adopted the #Independence Act and called for a referendum in support of it - the country is marking its main state holiday today

23 August 1939: non-aggression pact between #Nazi Germany & #Soviet Union: a prelude to their joint dismemberment and occupation of Poland.

Today, it is European Day of Remembrance of Victims of All Totalitarian & Authoritarian Regimes (variant: for All Victims of Nazism & Stalinism)

Advocates saw this as a long-overdue recognition of the crimes of Stalinism & their consequences. (Some critics feared moral equivalence)

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2022/733610/EPRS_ATA(2022)733610_EN.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Ribbon_Day

#WWII #WorldWarII 3/n

23 August 1939

#Nazi-#Soviet Nonaggression Pact.
The world was shocked. Much of the response focused on the cynicism behind such a step.

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