#or USSR
Text
Double Standards (light it up):
You know, in light of everything going on in Colombia U and Harvard, etc., I wonder -
They say harassing random people and murder and rape and the vandalism of (everything Jewish) is ok, bc it's "retaliation".
Continue this line of thoughts, does it mean I get Carte Blanche to burn a local mosque?
After all, my family had been oppressed for wayyy more than 75 years under the Yemeni occupation. We were exiled and had to flee for our lives. My grandma told me stories about their journey, the little she remembers. She nearly died.
(we think she had a brother who did)
Also, does it mean I'm allowed to go and beat up anyone wearing a cross?
I mean, my other grandma's cousins were murdered by Christians in Auschwitz-Birkenau (her grandad survived and came to live with them in Israel after the holocaust. But that's another story.)
*for the record - idk how your family things go, but I met most of this grandma's cousins and can name/give a detail about at least half of them. Also just last weekend we talked about her aunt that died as her refugee's ship broke halfway through the journey to Israel. I know this story and the ship name and the aunt and her kids since I was a kid. So yes, those memories are part of my life.)
And I guess people shouldn't be able to talk Spanish in public. After all, we all Know what They did in 1492.
But why going back so much?
There's exile of Jews from Iran in the 70s. But you'll never hear about it.
You'll never hear about the way we were kicked from Afghanistan and Lybia and Tunisia (where, btw, a mob burnt down an ancient synagogue this very year.)
No one's talking about how jews were kicked out of Egypt.
(this is how ppl sound. If that make you think "well, actually -"then, why isn't it never applied to us?)
#spain#retaliation#yeah right#double standards#goyim can reblog#so fucking tired of this#if i had a nickel#for every country we WEREN'T exiled from#I don't think I'd have 2 nickels#honestly#exiled#murdered#or oppressed any other way#like in the Hijaz - you can't Exile the Jews if Jews aren't allowed to live there in first place#you know#or the uk in the 1200s iirc#or USSR#can't exile jews if you don't allow judaism#ancient Egypt is sort of the counterpoint#but it's more like “oh no you can't let those slave go! they are mine!”#antisemism#antisemitism#antisemism all the way down#hi do you remember how western culture is literally based on the oppression of jews?#that were not allowed to own land and in some places were only allowed to qork with money#which means the local monarch could always point at them as “those who take the money”#and if there were financial issues#just exile/kill them and take away all their things#who cares about them greedy dirty jews anyway?#jumblr
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
Vintage wind-up toy bear (USSR, 1920s-30s)
14K notes
·
View notes
Text
I know I'm a week late but I do think people are misunderstanding the point of the Anthony Bourdain quote about Kissinger
The point was never "Anthony Bourdain has good politics and is an unproblematic fave," the point is that even someone with mainstream liberalish politics who goes to Cambodia for a food tour - a, let's be honest, very bougie type of trip to be part of your job - and has a basic understanding of history and a bare minimum of human decency can come away from that bougie food tour wanting to murder Henry Kissinger with their bare hands. The point is that Henry Kissinger fucked up this country so bad the only reason he wasn't lynched decades ago is because it's on the opposite side of the world and the people who were in proximity to him never really saw what it was. The point is that if we could see firsthand what our First World politics do to the Third World we would understand that monsters walk among us and it's a cultural failing that we let them die at home at 100 years old surrounded by their friends and family.
#henry kissinger#the unifying theory of fuck that guy#i use first and third world intentionally here because that is the exact political structure in play#first world didn't mean rich or privileged or important#it meant the us and its allies#the second world was the ussr#and the third world was the countries we were fighting over in the quote-unquote cold war
7K notes
·
View notes
Text
Children's jumper. 1970s.
Atomic age, space race themes.
Peterburg Auctions
13K notes
·
View notes
Text
Waiting for spring. Photo by Igor Gnevashev, USSR, 1980s.
17K notes
·
View notes
Text
New Year's Eve in the dormitory, Leningrad, 1983 (photo by Yuri Belinsky)
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
"Viy" (1967), the only horror movie ever made in the Soviet Union.
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
TES-3 Soviet transportable nuclear power plant mounted on self-propelled tracked vehicle. It was designed for use in hard-to-reach areas of the Far North and Siberia, 1950s.
8K notes
·
View notes
Text
The thing is, I have nothing against socialism or communism as a political ideology; trust me, I'm as anti-capitalist as they come. The leftism is really not the problem here.
The problem is when in their leftism, people – Americans, really, and western Europeans – use the ussr as this sort of goal, this complete antithesis to the modern capitalist society, this almost-utopian place to live. They use hammer and sickle symbol, the ussr anthem; sometimes, as a joke, sometimes, not so much.
Not only that clearly shows that they know absolutely nothing about the ussr – it's also spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not, which is especially insidious now, when russia is literally committing a genocide.
The ussr wasn't a socialist utopia where everyone is equal. It was a totalitarian dictatorship, responsible for colonisation and genocide of multiple people and cultures. Just like the russian Empire before it. Just like modern russia continues to do now.
For many Eastern European and Central Asian people, hammer and sickle is not just a symbol of a political ideology. It's the symbol, under which people were starved to death, imprisoned or executed for daring to write in their own language; in which cultures were erased, people – forcefully assimilated, stripped of their own national identity.
It's the propaganda of being "the same people, the same nation" that russians love to use; that westerners love to believe, for the sole reason of the oppressed daring to look similar to the oppressor; for the sole reason of Americans being unable to look past their own history and realize oppression comes in many shapes and forms.
By using the ussr symbols in your political movement, you're denying the atrocities commited under that symbol and spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not.
It's not "progressive" to wave around a hate symbol.
Do your research.
11K notes
·
View notes
Text
As the great armies of the US and the USSR converge on Germanay, page 1 of a pamphlet educating American soldiers about their new comrades, soldiers of the Red Army.
Our Red Army Ally. April 23, 1945.
Internet Archive
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
781 notes
·
View notes
Text
really disappointing that bunjywunjy had to be pestered twice just to quietly remove their reblog after using their huge platform to encourage garbage like raving about the lesbian estonian soviet flag and how 'new pride flag just dropped' so people could go 'ooh pretty' about a flag that was forced onto us by ppl who wanted our culture gone and oppressed us for about a century in total if not more.
to say nothing or not show anything of the truth about that flag and quietly remove the reblog felt more like it was done out of obligation (and you didn't agree) rather than care for the subject matter that is still a fresh wound in our country's memory. it's only been 33 years since it ended.
I'd rather you make the mistake about something you didn't know (eastern european history is easy for westeners to overlook, because we're not a big country like them, we're not england or france or spain or germany) and admit/apologize for said mistake or even just outright state that you don't actually care rather than say nothing and quietly remove something so that people would stop talking about it
#regardless of your opinions on communism the ussr was a tragedy for much of eastern europe#and we still suffer under its effects today#did you know that when the ussr occupied us that estonians couldn't even be the majority of the population in our own country?#they flooded in and tried to make our country like them#they arrested anyone who wore the colors of our flag#and all while they settled into our countries (it wasnt just estonia but amywhere they occupied) they forcefully deported us out of it#into moving steel boxes of the trains in the harsh winter#people packed in like anchovies with barely any room to die from the starvation#but nobody talks about that#nobody cares about eastern europe#nobody bothers#so i get american tankies telling me garbage like how im just reciting 'CIA propaganda'#as if i give a fuck about what some yankoid organization in some unrelated country says#our families lived that shit#at the time i was born the only people who couldve gotten an estonian birth certificate were still children#what do you think our mothers and fathers and grandmothers and grandfathers lived in?#people only care that a flag looks pretty#and not what the flag actually meant
499 notes
·
View notes
Photo
“Strawberries” by Igor Kornilov (linocut, 1958)
25K notes
·
View notes
Text
Moscow, 1980s.
Photo by Yaroslav Mayev.
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
After Germany banned the Soviet flag on Victory Day, the red flag with a hammer and sickle was projected onto the east side of the Berlin Gate by unknown people.
Via kakasloi
Video: https://twitter.com/kakasloi/status/1788234835963568181
452 notes
·
View notes
Text
Soviet New Year tree lights, 1960s.
#russia#russian#soviet aesthetic#ussr#soviet#soviet union#russian history#sovietwave#1960s aesthetic#1960s
3K notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
drbhjugs
Dr. Big Honkin Jugs
mohamad-alkhalil
mohamad alkhalil
sushimewew
Why isn't my tumblr listening?
thesephotoswillspeaktoyou
Simply Beautiful
home-tutor-blog1
Unique Home Tutors