This Soviet diver training tank sits inside a narrow, decaying three-storey building in Latvia.

A tight spiral stair wraps around a tall concrete tank with portholes for monitoring trainees. At the top, the open tank drops three storeys and still holds water, with a radiator fixed to prevent freezing.

Abandoned suits, masks and other equipment remain. Documents reference the SVU-3 diving system from the 1970s.

#Latvia #Diving #History #Soviet #Scuba #Photography #LostPlaces #UrbanExplorer

This Soviet diver training tank sits inside a narrow, decaying three-storey building in Latvia.

A tight spiral stair wraps around a tall concrete tank with portholes for monitoring trainees. At the top, the open tank drops three storeys and still holds water, with a radiator fixed to prevent freezing.

Abandoned suits, masks and other equipment remain. Documents reference the SVU-3 diving system from the 1970s.

#Latvia #Diving #History #Soviet #Scuba #Photography #LostPlaces #UrbanExplorer

Via #France24 @ 10am EST - JAN 20, 2026

Canada military models response to US invasion: report

The #CanadianMilitary has developd a model response 2 a US #invasion, #GlobeAndMail reported Tuesday, as President #Trump again muses online abt a #takeover of #Canada

Citing 2 unnamed sr gov officials, the paper sed the #Canadian response model centers on #insurgency‑style tactics, like those used in #Afghanistan by fighters who resisted #Soviet & later US forces

#Never51

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260120-canada-military-models-response-to-us-invasion-report

Via #France24 @ 10am EST - JAN 20, 2026

Canada military models response to US invasion: report

The #CanadianMilitary has developd a model response 2 a US #invasion, #GlobeAndMail reported Tuesday, as President #Trump again muses online abt a #takeover of #Canada

Citing 2 unnamed sr gov officials, the paper sed the #Canadian response model centers on #insurgency‑style tactics, like those used in #Afghanistan by fighters who resisted #Soviet & later US forces

#Never51

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260120-canada-military-models-response-to-us-invasion-report

34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991

Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing

Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism

Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:

Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella

We must defeat #plutocracy in the West

The Soviet way is not the way

Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay

34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991

Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing

Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism

Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:

Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella

We must defeat #plutocracy in the West

The Soviet way is not the way

Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay

Today in Labor History November 19, 1943: The Nazis liquidated the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt. They typically forced inmate musicians to play Tango of Death during hangings and fox trots during tortures. Simon Wiesenthal was one of the survivors of Janowska. Overall, the Nazis murdered 40,000 in this camp, alone, and a total of 200,000 residents of the Janowska region. The Soviet liberators of the camp found crushed bone buried to a depth of six feet. The photograph shows the bone crushing machine, with Jewish inmates who were forced to operate it.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #nazis #antisemitism #racism #torture #concentrationcamps #ukraine #jewish #soviet

Today in Labor History November 19, 1943: The Nazis liquidated the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt. They typically forced inmate musicians to play Tango of Death during hangings and fox trots during tortures. Simon Wiesenthal was one of the survivors of Janowska. Overall, the Nazis murdered 40,000 in this camp, alone, and a total of 200,000 residents of the Janowska region. The Soviet liberators of the camp found crushed bone buried to a depth of six feet. The photograph shows the bone crushing machine, with Jewish inmates who were forced to operate it.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #nazis #antisemitism #racism #torture #concentrationcamps #ukraine #jewish #soviet

On October 23 1956 the #HungarianRevolution ignited

It lasted 15 days

It was crushed by #Soviet Tanks

On the anniversary Thursday, there were protests against #Orban

Peter Lakits, holding a sign reading "Russians Go Home":

“One thing we have learned from #history is that we have learned nothing from history. Sometimes the tanks that crushed #freedom in #Budapest are the very same ones that are now crushing freedom in #Ukraine"

https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-rally-orban-magyar-uprising-budapest-ukraine/33568791.html

#Magyarország #Hungary #Russia #Europe

On October 23 1956 the #HungarianRevolution ignited

It lasted 15 days

It was crushed by #Soviet Tanks

On the anniversary Thursday, there were protests against #Orban

Peter Lakits, holding a sign reading "Russians Go Home":

“One thing we have learned from #history is that we have learned nothing from history. Sometimes the tanks that crushed #freedom in #Budapest are the very same ones that are now crushing freedom in #Ukraine"

https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-rally-orban-magyar-uprising-budapest-ukraine/33568791.html

#Magyarország #Hungary #Russia #Europe

Pair of bright yellow Soviet-era buses, rusting away somewhere in Lithuania 🇱🇹

#Soviet #Bus #Buses #Yellow #Rust #Photography

🏛️🇬🇪 A grand Soviet-era culture house lies abandoned in the mountains, built in the 1950s as a venue for workers’ collectives. Its facade carries the influence of Greek architecture, with a portico entrance and classical lines that set it apart from others of its kind.

Once a theatre, cinema, and library, today it stands empty, its halls silent and its stage long unused.

Full feature live Saturday at 8pm (UK)
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#Georgia #Photography #Soviet #AbandonedPlaces #UrbanExploration #HIstory

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

Today in Labor History August 28, 1921: The Soviet Red Army dissolved the stateless Anarchist Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine. The anarchist rebel leader, Nester Makhno, barely escaped, and with serious injuries. The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno), lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ukraine #anarchism#AnCom#AnarchoCommunism #NestorMakhno #soviet