Started reading Superman: Red Son. It is quite something.

Why are tankies so blind to what they’re doing? How can they worship dictators like the Kim dynasty, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Castro, Maduro, and vanguards like the CPSU?

It doesn’t make sense, if you want the working class to be free, why are you idolizing authoritarian rulers?

What the hell is happening here? This blind devotion and cult-like behavior is downright insane.

The Red Army of the USSR began the Second World War (1939-45) with a series of shocking defeats, but from late 1942, it rallied and held on to key cities like the capital Moscow, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), and Stalingrad (Volgograd). #History #RedArmy #SecondWorldWar #SovietUnion #USSR #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2700-en/

#science #ussr

Seth Rogen’s Criticism of Sili...

Ancient tools forged by the wisest ancients to fight fascism

122 lugares de explosiones nucleares pacíficas en la antigua Unión Soviética, donde algunos soportaron varias explosiones. #nuclear #unionsovietica #sovietunion #urss #ussr

#USSR #Justice #Navalny #trial If it looks like a show trial, sounds like a show trial it is a show trial.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/15/four-journalists-accused-of-working-for-kremlin-foe-navalny-convicted-of-extremism?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Visiting the #US is now becoming an exercise in all the fear and bureaucratic red tape that former #USSR states had until recently.

Here's a post by Andrew Northall on Bluesky:

64 years ago on the 12 April 1961, Soviet steelworker and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in Space and making one complete orbit of the Earth.

#YuriGagarin #Gagarin #Cosmonaut #Space #Earth #Man #Vostock #SpaceRace #East #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewnorthall.bsky.social/post/3lmmwo4ezf227

now watching: "Nuclear Energy in the Soviet Union (USSR) - 1984 (translated documentary)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHehzFYSWYs

recommended! especially for the jaunty tune at the beginning and the poetry!

oh jeez...just got to the part where "nuclear power is getting particularly highly-developed in ukraine." oh yea and there goes the discussion of the fantastic chernobyl plant

ooh now we're at the part where they show the computers operating some of the processors. oh yea, these are tape computers. excellent.

Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program 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 Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; 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.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon

Newly declassified documents reveal that the CIA used Puerto Rico for an operation to poison shipments of sugar from Cuba to the USSR, and that a former Governor of Puerto Rico was a direct CIA asset.

Website to download video: https://instag.com/mastodon/

Peace, land and bread

https://tankie.tube/w/7Rfi1PCCTA2ZtEef9brmtb

The Battle of Moscow (Oct 41 to Jan 42) was Germany's first major land defeat in the Second World War (1939-45). #History #Moscow #RedArmy #SecondWorldWar #USSR #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2686-en/

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

In the #USSR, tattoos were popular amongst prisoners and highly stigmatised.

Since 2022, tattoos, for people like our colleague Mariana, have become a way of taking pride in Ukrainian identity and standing up to #Russia.

Why Are American Presidents So Old Now?

https://youtu.be/vKQuO1WSPFo

New "media" are popping up on Google News (US)!

For European people, the whole thing is quite reminiscent of the official organs of the USSR...

- United States Trade Representative (.gov): Reciprocal Tariff Calculations
- Federal Reserve Board (.gov): Speech by Vice Chair Jefferson on the U.S. economic outlook and central bank communications
- Federal Reserve Board (.gov): Speech by Chair Powell on the economic outlook