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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2272192/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2272192/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Plane crashes in Russia’s Far East with 49 people on board • FRANCE 24 English <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AnAnatol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnAnatol</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/angara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>angara</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/crash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crash</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/danger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>danger</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emergency</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>france</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FRANCE24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FRANCE24</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FRANCE24English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FRANCE24English</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FranceNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FranceNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/france24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>france24</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FRANCE24English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FRANCE24English</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FrenchNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewsFrance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewsFrance</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/plane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plane</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PlaneCrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlaneCrash</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SovietUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SovietUnion</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Rabbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rabbi</span></a> Yosef Mendelevich is best known as a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/refusenik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>refusenik</span></a> and former political <a href="https://babka.social/tags/prisoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prisoner</span></a> who was sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp for his involvement in a 1970 plot to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/hijack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hijack</span></a> a plane and escape the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a>. Today, at 77, he is making headlines for a very different reason: the publication of his <a href="https://babka.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a>, “The Cantonists: <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> Boys in the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> Military, 1827-1856” by Touro University Press, being released in English for the first time."</p><p><a href="https://jewishlink.news/from-prisoner-to-scholar-rabbi-josef-mendelevichs-lifelong-fight-for-jewish-identity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jewishlink.news/from-prisoner-</span><span class="invisible">to-scholar-rabbi-josef-mendelevichs-lifelong-fight-for-jewish-identity/</span></a></p>
michael<p>This statue in <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Ulaanbaatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ulaanbaatar</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Mongolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mongolia</span></a> commemorates Marshall Georgy Konstantinovich <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Zhukov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zhukov</span></a> for his role in defeating the Japanese 6th Army at the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in Mongolia. Zhukov was, amongst other things, deputy commander-in-chief of the <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> armed forces during <a href="https://photog.social/tags/WorldWarTwo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWarTwo</span></a> and a Hero of The Mongolian People's Republic. <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photo</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Darktable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darktable</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/FujiVelviaEmulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FujiVelviaEmulation</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> The Finns can handle the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russians</span></a> - with a little help from their friends. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_</span><span class="invisible">Civil_War</span></a></p><p>If <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> collapses, I expect that the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SinoFinnishBorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SinoFinnishBorder</span></a> will partition <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moscow</span></a>. (Yes, other countries will manage current <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> territory as well. But that's not germane to the old <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> joke!)</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ieji.de/@vnikolov" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vnikolov</span></a></span> The remaining question - that is at the heart of the best 'dark humour' jokes from <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> days - is: Where will the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SinoFinnishBorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SinoFinnishBorder</span></a> be drawn? 🤔 😂</p>
skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms<p>The Revival of the GULAG: Russia's terror state Duma passed a law creating another network of special FSB prisons. KGB is ramping up rape, torture, murders now legal again. Text book criminal regime.</p><p>The authors of the bill are literally restoring the powers of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> KGB. These prisons will operate outside the regular prison system, with no obligation to report to correctional authorities.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/russiaIsATerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russiaIsATerroristState</span></a></p>
MarxWuzRight<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/democrat?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democrat</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/republican?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#republican</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/communism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/capitalism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/libertarian?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertarian</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/antifa?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifa</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/soviet?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soviet</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/coldwar?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coldwar</a>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>knittingknots2</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> -style <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/EmptyShelves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmptyShelves</span></a> coming to the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> -tainted <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>. </p><p>At least the obesity rate of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> might come down! 🤷🏻‍♂️ </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AmericanCarnage2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanCarnage2</span></a>.0 <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SilverLinings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilverLinings</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ussr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uprising</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Revolutionary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/siberia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>siberia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MariaSpiridonova" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MariaSpiridonova</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p>A <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> propagandist states that he has “looked into it” and found that the country of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Azerbaijan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Azerbaijan</span></a> is a fiction, invented during the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> era. 👀 👉 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marijnmarkus_azerbaijan-ukraine-history-activity-7346998816887259136-cXKH?utm_source=combined_share_message&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;rcm=ACoAAAFNnBEBsqDudA3DtwoG-06MXHb9EgdNPiA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/marijnmarku</span><span class="invisible">s_azerbaijan-ukraine-history-activity-7346998816887259136-cXKH?utm_source=combined_share_message&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;rcm=ACoAAAFNnBEBsqDudA3DtwoG-06MXHb9EgdNPiA</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> is so near bankruptcy that they have to re-use scripts from earlier and still ongoing invasions! 😂 </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/RussiaIsATerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaIsATerroristState</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/StandWithUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithUkraine</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p>Part and parcel of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AmericanCarnage2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanCarnage2</span></a>.0 is relinquishment of the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> leadership role against <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> and then <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> tyranny. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> heroically shoulders that burden now, ironically on <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/July4th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>July4th</span></a>. 💪 🇺🇦</p><p>With news that <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/NorthKorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthKorea</span></a> is sending 30,000 troops to assist fellow <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/terrorist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrorist</span></a> state <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> in their criminal invasion of Ukraine, the world is watching to see if <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SouthKorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthKorea</span></a> is also emasculated by cowardly inaction. 👀 🇰🇷 <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/europe/north-korea-troops-russia-ukraine-intl-cmd" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2025/07/02/europe/nort</span><span class="invisible">h-korea-troops-russia-ukraine-intl-cmd</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> tyranny, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/StandWithUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithUkraine</span></a>.</p>
iokevins<p>Listening to WHERE THE JEWS AREN'T: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Autonomous Region (2016) - Masha Gessen (narrated by Christina Delaine)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Gessen#Bibliography" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Ge</span><span class="invisible">ssen#Bibliography</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MashaGessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MashaGessen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Audiobook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audiobook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Libby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libby</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Library</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BiroBidzhan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiroBidzhan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristinaDelaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristinaDelaine</span></a></p>
🔻Stones of David🔻<p>🔥NATO Pt. 1: An Anti-Imperialist Introduction w/ Elina Xenophontos🔥</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/nato-pt-1-anti-w-132803642" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">patreon.com/posts/nato-pt-1-an</span><span class="invisible">ti-w-132803642</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coldwar</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/blackmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackmastodon</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iran</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lebanon</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/lebanon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lebanon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/yemen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>yemen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@irannachrichten" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>irannachrichten</span></a></span> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SettlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerColonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AntiImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tiktok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiktok</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/yemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yemen</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/blackmastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>blackmastodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/freePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/IsraelTerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraelTerroristState</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/StopGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopGenocide</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/palestina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestina</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/StopAIPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopAIPAC</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/IDFTerrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IDFTerrorists</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/DismantleZionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DismantleZionism</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>Interesting little history about the time the Soviets sent a couple of their Jews to visit our Jews. I skipped to the end for the perfect pull quote. :ablobcatwave:</p><p>"The paper’s final mention of the event was a snippet recalling that, when asked about the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> position on <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>, Michoels and Feffer responded, “<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stalin</span></a> will always be on the side of ‘yosher.’”</p><p>Coming into <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a> from <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Hebrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hebrew</span></a>, “yosher” means upright and is used in an ethical sense. It’s a haunting pronouncement, in light of the tragic epilogue.</p><p>In 1948, having hardened his views concerning <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> culture, Stalin ordered the death of Michoels.</p><p>Four years later, Feffer was executed for “counterrevolutionary crimes” along with other Jewish intellectuals, all active in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, on what became known as the Night of the Murdered Poets."</p><p><a href="https://jweekly.com/2025/07/02/when-the-ussr-sent-jewish-comrades-to-rally-san-franciscans/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jweekly.com/2025/07/02/when-th</span><span class="invisible">e-ussr-sent-jewish-comrades-to-rally-san-franciscans/</span></a></p>
Rita, antifascist 🏴🦯🦯🦯<p>three former political prisoners of the Soviet regime share about their fight for universal human rights</p><p>Yosyf Zisels, a Ukrainian Jew describes the significance of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHG). he spent 6yrs in labor camps in the late 1970s for participating in the human rights movement</p><p>“The UHG was founded in 1976 by just 10 brave people who understood that this initiative would land them in prison. Regardless, they decided to move forward in pursuit of personal, national, and pan-European interests”</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <br><a href="https://globalvoices.org/2025/06/27/solidarity-of-the-enslaved-ukraines-history-of-dissidence/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">globalvoices.org/2025/06/27/so</span><span class="invisible">lidarity-of-the-enslaved-ukraines-history-of-dissidence/</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History June 30, 1960: Congo won independence from Belgium after years of brutal colonial rule which slaughtered up to 10 million people, or half its entire population. However, imperial powers continued to exploit the people of Congo, even after independence. In 1961, the CIA orchestrated a coup that tortured, murdered, and overthrew its first democratically elected president, Patrice Lumumba, after a failed coup against him by Mobutu Sese Seku, who would later become dictator from 1971 until 1997. </p><p>President Eisenhower authorized the assassination because of Lumumba’s ties with the Soviet Union. The U.S., and its European allies, wanted control over Congo’s resources, particularly its rich uranium deposits, both to fuel their civilian and military nuclear programs, and, in particular, to keep them out of the hands of the Soviet Union, which was allied with Lumumba. The wonderful 2024 documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” does a really great job of uncovering the concealed history of the 1961 assassination of Lumumba and the coup d’etat in Congo. But it’s really about so much more: Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. There’s even a “slumber party” with Fidel Castro at Malcolm X’s home, in New York, after the U.S. authorities convince all the hotels in New York to refuse Castro a place to sleep during a UN conference, and he attempts to camp out on the sidewalk with his contingent.</p><p>One of the people the CIA used in its early attempts to assassinate Lumumba was chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who ran the agencies secret MKULTRA mind control program. Gottlieb tried, but failed, to kill Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste. He also tried, and failed, to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar and with radioactively poisoned shoes. MKULTRA was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The program gave hallucinogenic drugs, like LSD and Mescaline, to 7,000 unwitting U.S. war veterans, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belgium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lumumba</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/malcomx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malcomx</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fidelcastro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fidelcastro</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ussr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coldwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mkultra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mkultra</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hallucinogens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hallucinogens</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History June 27, 1905: The mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin began. Tensions were already high because of recent loses in the Russo-Japanese war and the presence. Furthermore, the crew was made up of recent recruits and the officers were relatively inexperienced. The mutiny began when sailors refused to eat the borscht that was served to them because of the meat was crawling with maggots. The ship’s 2nd in command threatened to shoot the men if they didn’t eat it. When he did shoot one of the mutineers, the crew attacked him and other officers, promptly killing nearly half the officers on board. They then decided to sail to Odessa to join the General Strike that was going on there. After that, they escaped to Romania where they obtained political asylum. The mutiny is considered an important step toward the Russian Revolution. It was depicted in Serge Eisenstein’s classic film, “The Battleship Potemkin.”</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/potemkin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>potemkin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mutiny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mutiny</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sergeeisenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sergeeisenstein</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History June 27, 1869: Anarchist, feminist and labor activist Emma Goldman was born in Lithuania. She helped plot the assassination of steel magnate, Henry Clay Frick, with her lover and comrade Alexander Berkman. Frick was fiercely anti-union and hired hundreds of Pinkertons to suppress the Homestead steel strike in 1892. In a gun battle, the Pinkertons killed nine strikers. Seven Pinkertons died, as well. Later that year, Berkman carried out the assassination attempt, but failed, and spent many years in prison. It was supposed to be an attentat, or propaganda by the deed. Like many anarchists of that era, they believed that their violent action would inspire working people around the world to rise up against capitalism and its leaders, like Frick. After that, Goldman publicly spoke out against attentats, because they weren’t inspiring the masses into action, but they were increasing state repression against their movement. </p><p>The state did imprison Goldman numerous times for other offenses, like “inciting to riot,” war resistance, and illegally distributing information about birth control. They even arrested her in 1901, in connection with the assassination of President McKinley, though she had nothing to do with it. They eventually released her and executed a mentally ill, registered Republican named Leon Czolgosz for the crime. In December, 1919, they deported her and Berkman to Russia. She had initially been supportive of the Bolshevik revolution and was excited to be there to witness its fruits, but denounced them after the massacre of more than a thousand sailors during the Kronstadt rebellion in 1921. Soon after, she and Berkman left Russia, completely disillusioned. However, in Germany and England, leftists were offended by her denunciations of the Soviet Union. Berkman died in 1936. That same year, she travelled to Spain to support the anarchists during the Civil War. She died a few years later in Toronto, at the age of 70.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/emmagoldman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emmagoldman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/alexanderberkman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alexanderberkman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revoluion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Revoluion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kronstadt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kronstadt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homestead</span></a></p>
RoundSparrow 🐦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MilitaryParade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryParade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpParade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpParade</span></a> </p><p>A Military Parade is another <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KGB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FSB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FSB</span></a> idea.</p><p>A MOCKERY of a military parade is STILL a Russian idea.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RussianIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussianIdea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SurkovMindFuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurkovMindFuck</span></a> /\ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeTrumpParade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeTrumpParade</span></a> /\</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_250th_Anniversary_Parade" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Arm</span><span class="invisible">y_250th_Anniversary_Parade</span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to work as a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/districtattorney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>districtattorney</span></a> in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> during the post-<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Stalinist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stalinist</span></a> era, now’s your chance to find out. Marat Grinberg, a scholar of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a>, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> at Reed College, has expertly translated the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/memoirs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memoirs</span></a> of his grandfather, Mikhail Goldis (1926-2020), who worked as a district attorney and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/detective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>detective</span></a> in Ukraine for three decades and wrote his memoirs in the U.S. in the early 1990s.</p><p>The book is comprised of chapters devoted to different cases that Goldis is expected either to solve or preside over. In most instances his voice is technical; he plays the part of an observer rather than a critic. It’s clinical in some instances rather than passionate, but every scene to which he bears witness and every conversation in which he engages is worthy of attention."</p><p><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/books/382054/a-kind-of-jew-they-didnt-know-existed/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jewishjournal.com/culture/arts</span><span class="invisible">/books/382054/a-kind-of-jew-they-didnt-know-existed/</span></a></p>