When asked if the #UnitedStates should have a military parade to show off its might, President #Eisenhower would respond:
“Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the #Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”
Ancient tools forged by the wisest ancients to fight fascism
#Russian #antisemitism runs DEEP. The “Protocols of the Elders of #Zion,” a fabricated #antisemitic text, was promoted by the Russian Empire and later weaponized by the #Soviets. Today, state media still regularly peddles #antisemitic conspiracies.
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>> we made a mistake protecting the #USSR from the #ThirdReich and should have just continued on from Berlin to Moscow in order to help rid the world of more fascists
After #Germany was defeated, the #UnitedStates still needed the help of #Soviets to fight #Japan in the East, as discussed at #Yalta in Crimea.
It was only later that the development of Atomic Bomb allowed #Truman to give a unilateral ultimatum to #Japan at #Potsdam in occupied Germany, while USSR was still neutral
These days, it's both Russia & China. The Chinese government attempts to steal US technology... everything from drought-resistant corn to the the secret formula for making Oreo cookie's 'stuff' white.
(The FBI caught the Chinese "Oreo" spy & he's serving 15yrs. Photos courtesy of the "International Spy Museum", Washington DC)
"Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign" - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/04/us-spies-soviet-technology-00164126
@billiglarper @Lassielmr @EugeneMcParland
>>>> #Stalin still doesn’t get glory because #Soviets didn’t stop #Nazis because Soviets were suddenly “good.” They stopped Nazis for self-preservation after #Hitler betrayed them
>> And Churchill did not fight Hitler Germany for self-preservation?
Worst #bothSides on #WWII history I’ve ever seen
No #Churchill did not go fuck #Poland like #Hitler and #Stalin took turns to. He did not kill 6 million #Jews
Even #BengalFamine was an exigency of War
@billiglarper @Lassielmr @EugeneMcParland
Yes, we are on a tangent. So let’s get back
#Stalin still doesn’t get glory because #Soviets didn’t stop #Nazis because Soviets were suddenly “good.” They stopped Nazis for self-preservation after #Hitler betrayed them.
You can deny #Churchill credit or give #Stalin credit. That’s your opinion, and you’re entitled to it.
Plenty of people believe #Trump is the Second Coming of Jesus and many believe #Biden is horrible. Not everybody thinks alike
@billiglarper @Lassielmr @EugeneMcParland
>> if cooperating with #fascists and waging #imperialist wars against the self-determination of peoples is the standard that makes #Stalin unsuitable for glorification: How can glorifying #Churchill be a thing according to these same standards?
These are not the same standards. #Fascism and #Imperialism are not interchangeable.
People who credit #Soviets in bringing down #Nazi #Germany are either not aware of #MolotovRibbentropPact or have #amnesia
Many African leaders, #SouthAfricas included, had deep ties with the #SovietUnion during the late 20th C. During their time as a revolutionary party in exile, the #Soviets helped back the #africannationalcongress who went on to rule S. Africa for the past 30 years.
Instead I will define the meaning of #sealioning:
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#Russia is no friend of #Africa. Africa for #Africans, and that means kicking out Westerners, and kicking out the ethnofascist thugocracy that is Russia.
Africa at best will use #Wagner, and discard them before the Russian #mafia state gets its hooks in too deep.
I look forward to Traore and #BurkinaFaso playing Russia as deftly as Burkina Faso played the #Soviets in the #ColdWar.
The rebuilt Orthodox #Church Of Our Lady of Kazan. Built originally in 1896 - it was demolished by the #Soviets in 1962. The restored building was finished in 2019 & can be found at the end of Jomas Iela in #Jūrmala #latvia.
I really like how colourful it is (a sight for sore eyes on a gloomy day!) & was important personally to visit it after leaving a donation a few years prior with family to honour my #grandmother.
The story of a clandestine KGB spy that was recruited from East Germany & operated in the US.
The mistakes the KGB made... How often he spoke to the Soviets... How he lived & what information he stole... Just how good a liar he was... And how he got caught.
"Spies in America who stole and sold U.S. secrets" | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HrKZtIBYx3I&feature=shared
Sure, but that's like saying #US nourished & supported #BinLaden to counter the #Soviets in #Afghanistan, so they deserved 9/11 — that'd be quite a stretch, no?
Both #Hamas (supported by #Iran) and #AlQaeda are #terrorist outfits.
Hamas opposed #OsloAccords which BOTH #Israel & #PalestinianAuthority #PNA agreed to.
Hamas DOES NOT WANT PEACE, heinously & illegally embed themselves among civilians to cause #genocide & evade justice, while world keeps blaming Israel.
And to be clear, our birth is an antifascist act because what fascists don't know is
מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
AND THE SAVED WORLD REMEMBERS is a monumental #painting by #Belarusian #artist Mai #Dantsig and based on the Sistine #Madonna by #Raphael Sanzio. Dantsig was inspired by the salvage of the Sistine Madonna from the bombing of #Dresden during World War II. And the Saved World Remembers depicts the moment when the Sistine Madonna was retrieved by the #Soviets.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Saved_World_Remembers
What an amazing painting. And thank you Soviets.
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I can only begin to fathom your despair about the loss of lives, of livelihood, and of your culture.
Most people whose countries were lucky enough not to be forced into the #WarsawPact by the #SovietUnion had probably never heard of the #Holodomor the #Soviets instrumentalized to kill millions of #Ukrainians 90 years ago. And now they are trying to do it again, maybe even on a worse scope.
But as you portray very well, not...