Mentions (11)
"Being an expert in International Human Rights Law in this context seems about as absurd and irrelevant as having a doctorate in Scientific Marxism from the Soviet Union in 1989."
"Zero sense of the grandious orof an aesthetic worth serving. Humiliating, google the USSR ones if you want to see it done right"
"My mom grew up in Kazakhstan and turned 18 when the USSR dissolved and even she thinks a lot of things today are a sidegrade at best."
"This is from Kotkin's book. Another highlight would be Felix Dzerzhinsky straight up fucking dying of a heart attack moments after delivering a 2 hour long speech condemning the opposition members. Also Trotsky having an economics textbook thrown at him."
"decades ago in the USSR my grandmother went to a village psychic who accurately predicted my dad's and my uncle's lives, and my uncle's death at a young age. they were 5 and 10 at the time. everything she said has come true, and they weren't generic things like marriage or kids either."
"Yesterday a museum somewhat near me acquired a collection of Socialist Realist paintings from the USSR, and in theory that is right up my alley, but I left the museum feeling pretty uninspired."
"Regardless of what you think of the USSR, he was truly one of the most demonic men who's ever lived. He undid the legacy of development in the USSR, from serfs into a superpower and into serfs once more."
"It kickstarted the Bangladesh Liberation War and Genocide, of which the USSR supported BD and India and Nixon supported Pakistan. As a result, both the USSR and US sent naval ships to the Bay of Bengal during the war."
"My mind immediately went to the thought that the ladies bring up often about the USA being the opposite of what the USSR was in it's later years. We have an abundance of so much shit and yet we have so many people in our country struggling to get by."
"The power struggle in The USSR after Lenin croaked was wild"
"My mind immediately went to the thought that the ladies bring up often about the USA being the opposite of what the USSR was in it's later years. We have an abundance of so much shit and yet we have so many people in our country struggling to get by."