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Putins Russland und die neue Verehrung von Stalin

Nach seinem Tod wurde der Kult um Stalin beendet. Zu schlimm war die Terrorpolitik des Sowjetdiktators gewesen. Doch unter Putin wird dessen Verehrung in Russland neu verordnet. Warum? Von Frank Aischmann.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/s

tagesschau.de · Putins Russland und die neue Verehrung von StalinBy Frank Aischmann

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:

"The paper’s final mention of the event was a snippet recalling that, when asked about the #Soviet position on #Palestine, Michoels and Feffer responded, “#Stalin will always be on the side of ‘yosher.’”

Coming into #Yiddish from #Hebrew, “yosher” means upright and is used in an ethical sense. It’s a haunting pronouncement, in light of the tragic epilogue.

In 1948, having hardened his views concerning #Jews and #Jewish culture, Stalin ordered the death of Michoels.

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."

jweekly.com/2025/07/02/when-th

J. · THE ARCHIVES | When Soviets sent Jewish comrades to rally S.F.The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in the USSR in 1942 to solicit international Jewish support for the forces battling Nazi Germany.
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Following that logic, the same VIP treatment applies to any authoritarian fanboy or fangirl who cozies up to the likes of Stalin, Kim Jong Un, and their squad of authoritarian party crashers.

If you’re out here sympathizing with dictators who specialize in crushing spirits and rewriting history, congratulations, you’re also getting the express ticket to Insta-block oblivion.

Because why debate when you can just digitally exile the entire fan club of oppression? It’s like a zero-tolerance party where the dress code is “No Red Flags Allowed.”

The #Naziness of #Israel is astounding!

The Audacity of the #ChosenPeople is unbelievably sickening. #Katz words sound like they're coming out from a mutant hybrid between #Hitler, #Stalin, and #Mussolini but only if they had schizophrenia and had an uber narcissistic & supremacy complex while taking heavy psychotropics.

Bringing #baby_formula has become #antisemitic now! What F*ing substance these bastards are on?

#MadleenFreedomFlotilla @palestine @gaza @iran @iraq

Today in Labor History June 7, 1896: Anarchists supposedly set off a bomb during a Corpus Christi parade in Barcelona, Spain. As a result, a dozen people died and thirty were wounded. No one knows who actually set off the bomb, but the government blamed anarchists, who had set off numerous bombs over the previous four years. Consequently, the government went on a witch-hunt, arresting and torturing dozens of anarchists in the infamous Montjuich Prison. However, many leading anarchists denied the accusations and said they would never have set off a deadly bomb in a working-class community like this. They reserved their attacks for members of the ruling class. Nevertheless, the government tried and executed five anarchists, all of whom proclaimed their innocence. They sentenced 67 others to life in prison. Worldwide protests erupted in response. Montjuich Prison was graphically depicted in the opening scene Victor Serge’s epic novel, Birth of Our Power, which he wrote while imprisoned in the Soviet Union for his opposition to Stalin.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #spain #barcelona #bombing #prison #torture #VictorSerge #soviet #russia #stalin #writer #author #books #fiction #novel @bookstadon

1. “When one considers the broader history of World War II and its outcome, it becomes evident that Stalinism was in fact one of the most successful political systems ever devised—if we define “success” purely in terms of order and power while disregarding all considerations of ethics and human well-being.

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Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari