Mentions (11)
"Lenin was lowkey cooking with his There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."
"Putin starts talking about Ukraine trying to get Nuclear Weapons with the help of the West, and how Ukraine has never been a real country and it was created by Lenin on a whim"
"All in all, the Soviet Union was a corrupt mess that was a staple of Russian imperialism more than a revolutionary vanguard. (I am more than certain nobody after Lenin truly believed in ever achieving communism and just wanted to fill their own pockets and buy another Dacha)"
"Ulyanovsk, Russia, 1973: Radiant newlyweds, 18-year-old Svetlana and 22-year-old Vitaly now share life as they do a profession; both are jugglers in the circus at Ulyanovsk. They pledged their wedding vows in a brief civil ceremony. Thereafter, in a new nuptial custom, the couple set off to pay thei"
"Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya-Russian revolutionary and the wife of Vladimir Lenin."
"Transnistria's flag and coat of arms bear a hammer and sickle, coins bear the same symbol, and their parliament building is foregrounded with a statue of Lenin. A brochure in a booth at the border reads: 'Your government advises against travel to Transnistria. Transnistria advises against listening "
"For International Workers Day — the real Labor Day, fuck you US government with that September bullshit — I called out of work and decided to put together a post about some writers celebrating the great Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Despite over a century of ghoulish attempts to besmirch him, he remains "
"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. Kino."
"Visited my mom today. She added a little bust of Lenin to the center of her dining table painted cheaply in silver. Sometimes this woman is incredibly based. She also got a second job doing manual labor once a week because she loathes her banking career and wanted to work with her hands more."
"I feel like Marx was truly a Plato or Einstein-level thinker, and he and Engels, and later Lenin have absolutely changed the way I see life from now on. Amazing"
"For International Workers Day — the real Labor Day, fuck you US government with that September bullshit — I called out of work and decided to put together a post about some writers celebrating the great Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov"