When the soviets built a firetruck... out of a fighter jet! - YouTube
Julio J.
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Entre 1971 y 1976, la Unión Soviética hizo planos urbanos de varias ciudades españolas a escala 1:10000, cuando en España se usaba la escala 1:25000, gracias a los satélites espía Zenit-4MK. Las ciudades elegidas no son aleatorias, sino que estaban cerca del estrecho. #URSS #USSR #mapas #maps
Empezaron por Algeciras (1973).
Entre 1971 y 1976, la Unión Soviética hizo planos urbanos de varias ciudades españolas a escala 1:10000, cuando en España se usaba la escala 1:25000, gracias a los satélites espía Zenit-4MK. Las ciudades elegidas no son aleatorias, sino que estaban cerca del estrecho. #URSS #USSR #mapas #maps
Empezaron por Algeciras (1973).
Entre 1971 y 1976, la Unión Soviética hizo planos urbanos de varias ciudades españolas a escala 1:10000, cuando en España se usaba la escala 1:25000, gracias a los satélites espía Zenit-4MK. Las ciudades elegidas no son aleatorias, sino que estaban cerca del estrecho. #URSS #USSR #mapas #maps
Empezaron por Algeciras (1973).
Alex Akselrod
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Today in Labor History October 12, 1892: The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by U.S. school children, without any mention of god. The Pledge went through several iterations over the following decades, but it was not until 1954 that the word “god” was added to it, to ingrain in U.S. children how much superior they were to the godless communists in the USSR.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #patriotism #ussr #ColdWar #anticommunism #communism #school #children #god #atheism
Today in Labor History October 12, 1892: The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by U.S. school children, without any mention of god. The Pledge went through several iterations over the following decades, but it was not until 1954 that the word “god” was added to it, to ingrain in U.S. children how much superior they were to the godless communists in the USSR.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #patriotism #ussr #ColdWar #anticommunism #communism #school #children #god #atheism
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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🆕🏥🇬🇪 New location feature: Mountain Hospital, Georgia
This Soviet-era site lies abandoned. Among its remains are medical files, including 1980s child development records stamped with the #USSR Ministry of Health.
There are wards with old baby cribs, corridors with reliefs, and a fascinating macabre basement mural.
Full write-up and gallery now live:
👉https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/medical/ussr-mountain-hospital-georgia/
#Georgia#AbandonedPlaces #Photography #Explore #History
A colorful mural depicting a forest and human figures is painted on the damaged wall of an abandoned, decaying room with peeling paint and debris on the floor.
A partially demolished wall reveals a damaged staircase and debris in an abandoned building, with broken blue tiles and exposed concrete.
A decaying room with peeling ceiling, cracked floor, ornate blue and gold wall decorations, and an open doorway showing debris outside.
Abandoned room with peeling paint, broken windows, and several rusted, overturned metal hospital cribs scattered on the floor.
🆕🏥🇬🇪 New location feature: Mountain Hospital, Georgia
This Soviet-era site lies abandoned. Among its remains are medical files, including 1980s child development records stamped with the #USSR Ministry of Health.
There are wards with old baby cribs, corridors with reliefs, and a fascinating macabre basement mural.
Full write-up and gallery now live:
👉https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/medical/ussr-mountain-hospital-georgia/
#Georgia#AbandonedPlaces #Photography #Explore #History
A colorful mural depicting a forest and human figures is painted on the damaged wall of an abandoned, decaying room with peeling paint and debris on the floor.
A partially demolished wall reveals a damaged staircase and debris in an abandoned building, with broken blue tiles and exposed concrete.
A decaying room with peeling ceiling, cracked floor, ornate blue and gold wall decorations, and an open doorway showing debris outside.
Abandoned room with peeling paint, broken windows, and several rusted, overturned metal hospital cribs scattered on the floor.
Jonathan Schofield
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On this day 17 September 1939 the #USSR joined #Nazi Third Reich in its attack on #Poland, marking the start of World War 2.[^1]
Many isolated locations in Poland continued defense well until end of September, like Warsaw,[^2] but on 22 September the Nazis and Soviets met in Brest (today’s #Belarus) and concluded the occupation with a friendly handshake.
The Third Reich and Soviet Union remained close allies for the next two years, with the Soviets providing critical logistics back end to the Nazi Germany, supplying it with millions of tons of fuel, steel and other resources[^3] in bypass of international economic sanctions, while Germany continued the conquer of #France and the rest of Europe.
In June 1941 Germany wholeheartedly paid back its ally by sending all the bombs manufactured with Soviet steel back on the Soviet towns during “Operation Barbarossa”, but that’s another story 😏
[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Warsaw_%281939%29
[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commercial_Agreement_(1940)
On this day 17 September 1939 the #USSR joined #Nazi Third Reich in its attack on #Poland, marking the start of World War 2.[^1]
Many isolated locations in Poland continued defense well until end of September, like Warsaw,[^2] but on 22 September the Nazis and Soviets met in Brest (today’s #Belarus) and concluded the occupation with a friendly handshake.
The Third Reich and Soviet Union remained close allies for the next two years, with the Soviets providing critical logistics back end to the Nazi Germany, supplying it with millions of tons of fuel, steel and other resources[^3] in bypass of international economic sanctions, while Germany continued the conquer of #France and the rest of Europe.
In June 1941 Germany wholeheartedly paid back its ally by sending all the bombs manufactured with Soviet steel back on the Soviet towns during “Operation Barbarossa”, but that’s another story 😏
[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Warsaw_%281939%29
[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commercial_Agreement_(1940)
Alex Akselrod
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Today in Labor History August 31, 1919: John Reed and others formed the Communist Labor Party of America in Chicago. The party evolved into the American Communist Party. Reed was a journalist and communist activist who extensively covered World War I. He was most famous for his coverage of the Russian Revolution and his book, “Ten Days That Shook the World.” He died in Moscow in 1920 from typhus. They gave him a hero’s welcome and buried him in Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Only two other Americans were given this honor: Big Bill Haywood, a founding member of the IWW, and C.E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Communist Party USA.
John Dos Passos included a short biography of him in his “U.S.A.” trilogy. Uptain Sinclair called him the Revolution’s Playboy, elements of which can be seen in Warren Beaty’s portrayal of Reed in the film, “Reds.” Sergei Eisenstein made a film version of “Ten Days That Shook the World” in 1927.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #johnreed #communism #russia #ussr #soviet #kremlin #IWW #journalism #writer #author #books @bookstadon
Today in Labor History August 31, 1919: John Reed and others formed the Communist Labor Party of America in Chicago. The party evolved into the American Communist Party. Reed was a journalist and communist activist who extensively covered World War I. He was most famous for his coverage of the Russian Revolution and his book, “Ten Days That Shook the World.” He died in Moscow in 1920 from typhus. They gave him a hero’s welcome and buried him in Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Only two other Americans were given this honor: Big Bill Haywood, a founding member of the IWW, and C.E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Communist Party USA.
John Dos Passos included a short biography of him in his “U.S.A.” trilogy. Uptain Sinclair called him the Revolution’s Playboy, elements of which can be seen in Warren Beaty’s portrayal of Reed in the film, “Reds.” Sergei Eisenstein made a film version of “Ten Days That Shook the World” in 1927.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #johnreed #communism #russia #ussr #soviet #kremlin #IWW #journalism #writer #author #books @bookstadon
Alex Akselrod
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#putin gave #Trump's envoy #Witkoff an award to pass along to a senior #CIA official whose son was killed in #Ukraine while fighting alongside #russians.
This award has been given to high-level spies, including the #UK's Kim #Philby, an agent for #USSR.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/putin-award-order-of-lenin-american-ukraine/
#putin gave #Trump's envoy #Witkoff an award to pass along to a senior #CIA official whose son was killed in #Ukraine while fighting alongside #russians.
This award has been given to high-level spies, including the #UK's Kim #Philby, an agent for #USSR.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/putin-award-order-of-lenin-american-ukraine/
It is the 80th anniversary of one of history's greatest #WarCrimes. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1945, the USA dropped an atomic weapon on the city of #Hiroshima. President Truman lied and called it a military base. One key purpose was to intimidate the #USSR.
https://www.dw.com/en/japan-passing-on-the-pain-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/a-73534584
