#putin gave #Trump's envoy #Witkoff an award to pass along to a senior #CIA official whose son was killed in #Ukraine while fighting alongside #russians.
This award has been given to high-level spies, including the #UK's Kim #Philby, an agent for #USSR.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/putin-award-order-of-lenin-american-ukraine/
#Trump is meeting #Putin in #Alaska?
And what?
Evil mafia don manipulates orange manchild and decides #Ukraine without Ukrainians?
#EU: hold strong
Ignore this shit
The world of #USSR v #USA in ideological struggle is dead. What is left is shambling corpses of their former selves, reduced to an atavistic state
#Russia with a Tsar doing land war #imperialism. Stupid. USA doing #bigotry and #plutocracy to kill its #democracy. Stupid
They don't matter
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
GRUMPY OLD DICTATORS: PUTIN & LUKASHENKO FAIL TO SCARE THE WORLD Vlog 1128: War in #Ukraine
#Putin and #Lukashenko — two pathetic dictators — are panicking as their #USSR 2.0 reboot crumbles. #Oreshnik’s empty threats no longer intimidate, Russian #oil #refineries keep going up in flames, and the #economy is in free fall.
@Nazani @koteisaev @FrancoisPrague
i disagree with both of you
i think it was #yeltsin's impromptu random visit to a humble #texas supermarket:
"shit, we can't compete with this, we need to change"
but of course the #USSR could not change like that, so it died instead
someone made the event into an opera 
:
"The story could’ve ended there — simply a fun moment of cultures colliding. But, later in life, Yeltsin admitted the visit made a profound impression on him."
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
RUSSIA BACK TO USSR: FIXED FOOD PRICES & FROZEN DEPOSITS Vlog 1121: War in #Ukraine
Back to the #USSR: #Russia plans to fix #foodprices. Russians have started withdrawing money from major banks amid falling #interestrates and rumors of #depositfreezes. The #InternationalMonetaryFund has sharply downgraded its forecast for the Russian #economy.
Natalia Telepneva, autora do livro "Libertação e Guerra Fria. A União Soviética e o Colapso do Império Português em África (1961-1975)", publicado pela Imprensa de História Contemporânea, foi entrevistada no programa Visão Global (Antena 1).
On 29 July 1987 the trial of #Chernobyl plant leadership ended with 10 years sentences for the director Bryukhanov, head of engineering Fomin and his deputy Dyatlov.
This ruling was a classic example of the Soviet “legal system” - the people convicted were formally responsible for the decisions that led to the disaster, but they were not the decision makers.
The primary responsibility for the disaster was on the local (Kiev) and central (Moscow) Communist Party authorities who insisted on conducting the planned reactor test in spite of its known faults, specifically because it was planned. In #USSR the Plan was absolutely sacred and built from top to bottom, in detachment of any physical reality. Executive level not following the Plan was subject to criminal charges based on article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (“sabotage” and others). The Party leadership insisted on the testing to be conducted in spite of the plant management - the one who was convicted - asking to postpone it due to reactor faults.
The faults in reactor were known for a long time by its designer and manufacturer - the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy (NIKIET) - who however chose to hide them because, if revealed, they would hamper their own Plan. Therefore reactor operating procedures, closely followed by the plant staff during the tragic test, did not account for the faults.
In the period immediately following the reactor explosion and fire, local Party officials actively blocked emergency response and dismissed the impact in their communication to Moscow - once again, because that would negatively impact their careers. None of them were actually convicted, of course.
So if you want an example in corporate greed and dysfunctional management leading to world-scale environmental disaster, the Soviet management of Chernobyl makes a perfect case study. Except nobody uses it, because USSR had “Socialist” in its name so when they caused an environmental disaster that must have been, naturally, a “honest mistake” that had nothing to do with incompetence or greed
If you want a book that documents all of the above details - which are usually skipped in most narratives about Chernobyl - I can recommend a 2019 book “Midnight in Chernobyl” by Adam Higginbotham which uses tons of Soviet original documents to show what has really happened there and why.
Today in Labor History July 26, 1944: The Red Army liberated Lviv, Ukraine, from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survived the Nazi occupation out of 160,000 who were living there before the Nazi invasion. The occupation is depicted in several books, including Robert Marshall’s “The Sewers of Lvov” (1991) and Krsytyna Chiger’s memoir “The Girl in the Green Sweater” (2007). Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s film “In Darkness,” which was nominated for an Oscar, is based on these two books.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #holocaust #redarmy #russia #soviet #ussr #ukraine #books #fiction #historicalfiction #author #writer #film @bookstadon
In the 1930's, #Russia ran a campaign to lure Americans into the #USSR for building auto factories and things Russians didn't yet have the kills to do.
Around 10,000. They were later murdered, executed or worked to death in gulags.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forsaken:_An_American_Tragedy_in_Stalin%27s_Russia
No programa Daqui Moscovo (SIC Notícias), o comentador José Milhazes recomendou o livro "Libertação e Guerra Fria", de Natalia Telepneva, publicado pela Imprensa de História Contemporânea.
O final de tarde de dia 17 foi assim, na Tigre de Papel: casa cheia para a apresentação, por Giulia Strippoli e Rui Lopes, do livro de Natalia Telepneva — "Libertação e Guerra Fria. A União Soviética e o Colapso do Império Português em África (1961-1975)".
Today in Labor History July 19, 1972: British SAS units helped the Omani government against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat, during the Dhofar Rebellion. The Front was a Marxist, pan-Arab nationalist group which wanted an independent state in Dhofar, free from Sultanic rule. They were supported by Communist Guerillas from South Yemen and received backing from both China and the USSR.
Today in Labor History July 18, 1934: “The American Mercury” accepted Emma Goldman's article, "Communism: Bolshevist & Anarchist, A Comparison.” However, it was not until a year later that it was published, in a truncated form, as "There is No Communism in Russia." Goldman had been deported by the U.S. in 1919, during the Palmer raids, and sent to Russia, where she lived with her comrade, Alexander Berkman, for several years. She was initially supportive of the Bolsheviks, until Trotsky brutally crushed the Kronstadt rebellion, in 1921, slaughtering over 1,000 sailors and then executing over a thousand more. After this, she left the USSR and, in 1923, published a book about her experiences, “My Disillusionment in Russia.” H.L. Menken founded “The American Mercury,” in 1924, and published radical writers throughout the 1920s and ‘30s. A change of ownership in the 1940s led to a shift to the far right, including virulently antisemitic articles.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #EmmaGoldman #russia #soviet #ussr #communism #kronstadt #rebellion #massacre #writer #author #writer #books #journalism #magazine @bookstadon
"#Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich is best known as a #Soviet #refusenik and former political #prisoner who was sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp for his involvement in a 1970 plot to #hijack a plane and escape the #USSR. Today, at 77, he is making headlines for a very different reason: the publication of his #book, “The Cantonists: #Jewish Boys in the #Russian Military, 1827-1856” by Touro University Press, being released in English for the first time."
Amanhã, é dia de lançamento do mais recente livro da colecção 'Trânsitos' da Imprensa de História Contemporânea: "Libertação e Guerra Fria. A União Soviética e o Colapso do Império Português em África (1961-1975)", de Natalia Telpneva.
O encontro está marcado na Tigre de Papel, às 18h30, com apresentação a cargo de Giulia Strippoli e Rui Lopes.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/libertacao-guerra-fria/
#Histodons #ColdWar #USSR #Colonialism
#LiberationMovements #GuerraFria #URSS #África #MastoLivros #MastoBooks #NovoLivro
Stalinism (Why Stalin Sucked), Explained by Ducks
#stalin #stalinism #sovietunion #ussr #socialism #communism
Link to original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/_jsbdsBzRUg?si=tL2vkYtQe2aAeahM
New Podcast! "11 July 1989: Soviet miners strike" on @Spreaker #history #miners #ussr
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/11-july-1989-soviet-miners-strike--66814566
Today in Labor History July 9, 1917: Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman were sentenced to two years in prison, $10,000 each, and deportation to Soviet Russia for their antiwar efforts and their anarchist activism. Their persecution by the U.S. government was part of the Palmer Raids, or the first anti-communist witch hunt in the U.S., which led to the imprisonment, death and/or deportation of hundreds of anarchists, communists, and labor organizers. The witch hunt decimated the IWW. And it jump-started the career of J. Edgar Hoover, future head of the FBI and persecutor of activist groups under COINTELPRO, who was then the underling of his mentor A. Mitchell Palmer.
Though Berkman and Goldman were both born in Russia, they were also naturalized U.S. citizens. The U.S. also deported anarchist Mollie Steimer in 1922. So, Trump’s threat to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and have him deported would be nothing new for the U.S. The U.S. has also denaturalized and deported people on the right, including several dozen Nazis in the 1970s-1990s.
Today in Labor History July 6, 1918: Uprising against the Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR) during the Russian Civil War. One of their goals was to restart the war against Germany, which was helping suppress revolutionary activity in neighboring Ukraine and Finland. They also were frustrated by Bolsheviks’ move away from Revolutionary Socialism and toward “opportunistic service to the state." Maria Spiridonova, who spent years in prison under the Czar, and later under the Bolsheviks, was one of the leaders of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. She was also a member of the Shesterka ("Six")—6 women SR terrorists who were sent to Siberia. The failure of the SR Uprising facilitated the Bolsheviks consolidation of power and contributed to their creation of a one-party state in the USSR.
The Nuclear-Water Nexus is published! Here you have a foundational work about the hydrological turn in nuclear energy history - all in open-access. Props go to Siegfried Evens
and @perhogselius for editing this great piece.
I contributed chapter 4, about creating a fishfarm in the contaminated waters of #Chernobyl 's cooling pond!
#nuclearEnergy #nuclearwaters #USSR
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5996/The-Nuclear-Water-Nexus
