#Komsomol

[mioritic]

Photos of the 16th Komsomol Congress (Moscow, 1970) found abandoned in a drawer at my old office two years ago

#komsomol #ussr #1970 #soviet union #communism

[80ssovietcomrade]

Beautiful Soviet Punks. The girl in the middle wears a Komsomol (communist youth org.) scarf and a Telnyashka (most iconic military shirt, worn by the revolutionary sailors)

#1980s #80s #countryhumans ussr #ussr #soviet union #soviet #komsomol #punk #punk aesthetic #soviet punk #battle jacket #retro #Telnyashka

[deceptigoons-attack]

Komsomol member pin.

The Komsomol (abbreviation of the Russian Vsesoyuzny Leninsky Kommunistichesky Soyuz Molodyozhi -- All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth in English) was a Communist youth organization created in 1918.

#Russian history #Soviet history #Komsomol #Communist history

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By John Parker

Based on remarks given at “Free the Kononovich Brothers: International Campaign Meeting” on Aug. 25. Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich are leaders of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine. They were among hundreds of political opponents of the Ukrainian regime jailed this year, and thousands since the 2014 U.S.-backed coup.

The U.S. is supposed to be the greatest democracy, so its prison population must be the smallest – correct?

The fact is that the percentage of those in prison in the U.S. is five times the rate of that in China and twice the rate in Russia. It’s actually the highest number in the world, in both percentage of population and actual numbers – some 2.1 million in 2020.

Just as the budgets for Ukrainian security and military forces like the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have increased exponentially due to U.S. aid, in the last 40 years police budgets in the U.S. have tripled and they are also the recipients of military weaponry, including artillery, to be used against local communities.

#political prisoners #Mikhail Kononovich #Aleksander Kononovich #Ukraine #imperialism #repression #communist #youth #Komsomol #Mumia Abu-Jamal #Leonard Peltier #John Parker #Struggle La Lucha

[revolutionary-marxism]

Georgi Dimitrov among paratroopers at the 10th Congress of the Komsomol

#Georgi Dimitrov #Soviet union #armed forces #photography #komsomol

[justsweethoney]

#collectible #ebay #ussr #soviet era #KOLKHOZ #Komsomol #Socialism

[olivia2010kroth]

Olivia Kroth: Lektionen in russischen Geschichte - Zum Gedächtnis an die heroische sowjetische Pilotin Lidija Litwjak, 80 Jahre nach ihrem Tod

Lektionen in russischer Geschichte: Zum Gedächtnis an die heroische sowjetische Pilotin Lidija Litwjak, 80 Jahre nach ihrem Tod von Olivia Kroth Als die Wehrmacht der Nazis 1941 in die Sowjetunion einmarschierte, griffen junge Menschen in der Sowjetunion zu den Waffen. Sie bildeten sich zu Kämpfern aus und nahmen am Großen Vaterländischen Krieg teil, um den Feind zu besiegen und das Vaterland…

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#Batalla de Kursk #Batalla de Stalingrado #Великая Отечественная война #Комсомол #Курская битва #Лидия Владимировна Литвяк #Москва #Советский Союз #Сталинградская битва #Херсон #Gran Guerra Patriótica #Jersón #Komsomol #Lidia Vladímirovna Litviak #Moscú #Unión Soviética

[chicago-geniza]

Hey @horrid-little-pedant I can make you a Boy Scouts/international Scouting movement imperialism/colonialism/not-so-crypto-fascism syllabus if you’d like but for a first tantalizing taste here is:

Fig 1) Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and the Scouting movement, on the swastika symbol, from his 1917 sequel to the classic manual Scouting For Boys, entitled Young Knights of The Empire. Its companion book, for Girl Guides/Girl Scouts, authored by his sister Agnes, was called How Girls Can Help Build Up the Empire. The Baden-Powell family, prominent British military aristocrats, were instrumental in the British colonial expansion re: South Africa. Baden-Powell’s inspiration for the Boy Scouts was the Mafeking Cadet Corps, a group of child soldiers formed by Lord Edward Cecil shortly before the Siege of Mafeking that secured Robert’s place in annals of imperial military history. His niece Betty later became--I am choking and wheezing and coughing up a hairball getting this phrase out--Scoutmaster for the. Girl Guides of North Rhodesia. Do not even get me STARTED on, uh. The Peace Light of Bethlehem (tl;dr it’s a program inaugurated in Austria circa 1986 nominally to help ~handicapped children, but of course. In 2005. The International Commissioner of Austria symbolically passed the Peace Light to a delegation of Scouts and Guides from the Palestinian National Authority, comma, just after the Oslo Accords. And then in 2007 a delegation of Guides and Scouts from Austria, Germany, France, Jordan, Israel, and the PNA--by the way, all but Jordan and Israel are part of the Catholic international Scouting branch that generally, depending on region, ‘pledges allegiance’ to “[country], God, Church, and Christian Europe”--they symbolically lit the ~*~Peace Light together. In. Bethlehem. Scouting is the most fucked-up Bad Internationalism movement in the world.)

Fig 2) The Rodlo symbol was designed by a woman who was part of the Polish minority population in Germany, she went to a Sokol (also Scouting!!!) gymnasium, she got a scholarship to study with Wladyslaw Skyoczylas and other modernist naive folk-revival painters at the school of fine arts in Warsaw, she survived the war, she got into this bizarre movement of neo-pagan anti-clerical pan-Slavist ‘nationalism’ that confirms every single thing I said in my undergrad thesis, she wants to take these symbols back from Hitler and stress the uniqueness of the Polish-German border regions that are neither like, fashy Catholic nationalist Poland nor fashy-flavor Germany, unfortunately that’s not how history or visual semantics work. She says it’s ‘rod’ plus ‘godlo’ (pretend it’s a liquid l) but it’s rodnoverie, we know what you’re about, Joasia--or rather, if you have to give a paragraph-long disclaimer every time you present your lovingly-rendered symbol, you gotta just let it go once it reaches critical mass and recognize that that your defensive disclaimers come across as “my t-shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt.” Anyway. This Harcerstwo troupe named after...the Harcerstwo movement that became a WWII paramilitary and subsequently Catholic anticommunist movement adopted it as their symbol. They’re from a small town in the Katowice region and they are. Well. If you don’t want everyone to think you’re fascists then maybe don’t be a paramilitary organization with a Hitler Youth lite flag (if you put the Rodlo on the Polish flag...it’s...it scans as the swastika on the...they know! They’re not oblivious, they do 500 WWII memorial actions per year!). And don’t have your scouts swear fealty in military fatigues while doing the seig heil to the Slavic Hitlerjugend flag in the woods. Ya dig. Their website is like “why are our enrollments declining :(” 

idk man maybe your town’s teens want to smoke weed under the bridge and not be put through boot camp after school 

#NISHT REBAGELN #i have so much autism about scouting and it is extremely embarrassing but if you have questions about it. i have Answers #also did you know the UU church got in a huge fight with boy scouts of america #and boy scouts of america got in a huge fight with baden-powell about being allowed to say god #i do not need to explain the context of the PNA & the oslo accords for tumblr user horrid-little-pedant but can if other people are not awar #*aware. Scouting: Bad Internationalism #OH. wanna hear about the officially recognized Boy Scouts Displaced Persons DIvision after WWII dissolved c. 1950 #or Mury: Harcerki Troupe of Ravensbruck #did you know krupskaya once used komsomol and 'boyskautizm' as synonyms and that #ok i got distracted but again. rudyard kipling. he just tweeted it out. there are also 800000 examples in this book about Helping Police #and how scouts are like bees: serve their Queen & DISPOSE OF THE UNEMPLOYED #also baden-powell's sister agnes was great friends with marconi you know the long-distance radio transmission inventor who #joined the italian fascist party in 1923 like years before mussolini came to power and #used his authority as director of the science institute to mark all jewish applicants' papers with an E (italian word for jew starts with E) #& none were admitted during his tenure. before this became state policy & before this pressure was even. you know. subtly dispersed by #mussolini. just of his own initiative! #he has so many quotes praising fascism i couldn't fit them in one document #the british monarchy & aristocracy will see continental european fascism and especially german & go 'Tell Me More...' #the polish nobility AND endecja will see various permutations of fascism & say 'tell me more...' for different reasons #the polish intelligentsia will see ITALIAN fascism & say 'tell me more [eyes emoji] while condemning german fascism bc one has #better aesthetics #meanwhile stefania zahorska & bruno schulz are having stress-induced heart disease #pilsudski wants to be england so bad it makes him look stupid. & dmowski hates england & germany on paper but also #wants to be them so bad it makes them look stupid if he can do it with the slavophile side of the slavophile vs. westernizer debate #comma american industry and isolationism comma good old WWI 'ethnographic borders' comma #and solve The Jewish Question (threat)

[sovietpostcards]

Gascutter and komsomol member Nikolai Borovkov at the Krasnovodsk Oil Refinery. Photo by Dmitry Ukhtomsky (Turkmenia, 1959).

#1950s #working class #industry

[dostoyevsky-official]

Charismatic and intelligent. But too keenly aware of himself as both these things. Angry, frustrated – for good reason. Perhaps reckless, lacking strategic thinking. Narrow-minded and naïve. Who could better represent an entire group? The bright and irrepressible liberal middle-class. Yes, more than all the other things, Navalny was a talisman – he had magical powers over his people, but was hardly stimulating to others. To some he represented hope for a different Russia. He represented incarnate individual responsibility, competition (‘fair’ elections are ‘competitive’ ones), self-actualization. A personal antidote to apathy. He was in earnest, fired up – something to aspire to. An anachronism ( ‘out of time’) in a system designed to disempower and demotivate, close ranks and watch your back… in the end he transcended his actual views to become a symbol of Russia’s inability to find a way out of personalist politics. Martyrdom was a choice. People won’t say it – but he would have been better off saving himself. His was a stance both more principled than many others, but which also reveals the personalized nature of his appeal and his politics – he was ‘anti-Putin’ and positioned himself that way on purpose. And clearly Putin felt personally challenged on some level – hence his refusal to even name him. But the anti-Putin contains many ingredients of Putin himself – as numerous people point out (privately, of course) even now. The style over substance. The cultivated charisma which stems from a rather overweening masculine pitch to authority (very, very few feminists are given any airtime to express their deep-seated discomfort with his language). The temporary and fickle try-out of different ideas and slogans. The super-narrow political imagination – one might even say ‘anti-political’ imagination (anti-corruption is not politics).

[...] Navalny was pointedly hostile to people who have every right to live and work anywhere they like in Russia – Russian citizens in fact, who happen to be Muslim and racialized as such. It’s mistaken to see him as ‘cannily’ channelling nationalist sentiment in an acceptable way to urban Russians. Instead, we should read this as an essential script of liberal failure; in a country with millions of Muslims and rich diversity – and where inequality and ethnicity go hand-in-hand – playing the race card shows political immaturity at best and was ominous. [...] He represented everything that is naïve about liberals in Russia – ‘if only we could just get on with being a normal country like the USA, everything else will fall into place’. In a sense, he traces an ideological line back to the Komsomol boys who privatized opportunity in the late Soviet Union and deluded themselves they were building a market where all would prosper. [...] Churchills, Stalins, Trumps are ultimately just part of the structures of feeling that dictate their eras. Navalny was, despite everything, an anachronism not so different to Putin: out of step with what most Russian people want.

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[ohsalome]

Not long ago I finished reading @TimothyDSnyder's book "Bloodlands. Europe between Hitler and Stalin".

I wanted to share some quotes from the chapter on the Holodomor that struck me personally the most. It is difficult to imagine what was happening then. A small but heavy thread:

The peasants who were slowly dying of starvation were believed to be saboteurs who were actually playing into the hands of the capitalist powers who wanted to discredit the Soviet Union. Hunger is resistance, and resistance is a sign of the imminent victory of socialism.

Forced to pass off their swollen bellies as a manifestation of political opposition, they came to the conclusion that the saboteurs hated socialism so much that they deliberately brought their families to starvation.

On 22 January 1933, Balytsky warned Moscow that peasants were fleeing the republic, and Stalin and Molotov ordered law enforcement agencies to stop the flow of people. The next day, the sale of long-distance railway tickets to peasants was banned.

The Ukrainian musician Yosyp Panasenko was sent with a group of bandura players to the countryside to bring culture to the starving peasants. Having taken away the last piece of bread from the peasants, the authorities had a grotesque intention to raise the mood and spirit of the deathly hungry people. The musicians found completely empty villages.

Children born in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s found themselves in a world of death, surrounded by helpless parents and a hostile government. The average life expectancy for a boy born in 1933 was seven years.

One father in the Vinnytsia region came to the cemetery to bury two of his children, and when he returned, he saw that another child had died. Some parents locked their children in the house to save them from cannibals.

Parents gave their children to distant relatives or strangers, left them at railway stations. Desperate peasants who held their babies through the windows of the wagons did not necessarily beg for bread: very often they wanted to give their children away, to strangers who lived in cities and did not suffer from hunger.

Countless parents killed and ate their own children and then died of hunger anyway. One mother boiled her son for food for herself and her daughter. A six-year-old girl rescued by relatives last saw her father sharpening a knife to stab her.

The children's stomachs were swollen, their whole bodies were covered in wounds, scabs, and abscesses. We took them, laid them on the sheets, and they were moaning. One day, the children suddenly stopped talking, and we looked at them and saw that they were eating the youngest one, Petrus. They were pulling off his scabs and eating them. And Petrus was doing the same thing - pulling off his scabs and eating them, eating as much as he could. Other children were sucking blood from their own wounds. We pulled the children away from this activity and cried.

There came a time when there was virtually no grain left in Ukraine, and human meat was the only type of meat.

One Komsomol member in the Kharkiv region reported to his superiors that he could only meet the meat supply plan at the expense of human beings.

More than one Ukrainian child has told a brother or sister: "Mum said we should eat her if she dies". This tragic solution was found by love and care

#ukraine #ukrainian history #holodomor #genocide #ussr #communism #soviet history #joseph stalin

[dark-black-dahlia]

World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov (Right) Holds Demo Game At The Sports Festival Dedicated To The XVIII Komsomol Congress. Photo By Vladimir Rodionov, USSR, 24 April 1978

#ussr #chess #dystopia #1984 #anatoly karpov #vladimir rodionov #history #pattern #sports festival #matching #1970s #soviet union #soviet #russia #black and white

[elenatria]

April 26th 2024, 38 years since the Chernobyl disaster. Вечная память. 🙏🕯☢ 🏭

Commission for @fuerst-von-argot: 20-year-old Boris as a student of the Kharkov Institute and 11-year-old Valery when he was a member of the Komsomol committee of school No 56 in Moscow. Credit to @green-ann for helping me with reference.

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#chernobyl #jared harris #valery legasov #boris shcherbina #stellan skarsgard #valoris #valerochka #borya #babyvaloris #babyjaredharris #commission #38th chernobyl anniversary

[captain-price-unofficially]

Soviet tanker Komsomol crossing the bow of USS Wisconsin (BB-64) in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1950s.

#naval #cold war

[pwlanier]

Orentlikherman I.A. "Silence of Silence 16" 2004. Oil on canvas. Size 80x60 cm.

ORENTLIHERMAN ISAAK ARONOVICH (born 1941)

Born in 1941 in the city of Kagan, Uzbek SSR. Soviet, Russian artist, whose worldview was formed in the 60s of the XX century.

Nonconformist, avant-garde, impressionist.

Graduated from the Art School. Azim Azimzade in Baku (1962). In 1957 - 1971 he lived in the city of Baku. The Sixties, a member of the "severe style" movement of Tair Salakhov, "Opral impressionism" of the Soviet era, the closing and dispersal of exhibitions, exclusion from the Komsomol, expulsion and restoration from the art school - this is a period that had a great influence on his work.

Member of the International Union of Artists,

Member of the Creative Union of Russia,

Member of the International Federation of Artists.

The artist's works are stored in many private collections and galleries in Russia, in Europe and in the CIS countries.

Art Molotov

[annoyingann]

there is a naked body below, be careful!

it's hard to translate completely, but the essence is 'I don't drink tea with just anyone'

translation: I'll sing you a song, just don't hit me

if I am offered to give my soul to the devil, I will refuse, because this wonderful demon has already stolen it.

By the way, on the first sketch I wanted to draw him a Komsomol badge, but then I changed my mind..

Bonus:

he’s got a ponytail because he doesn’t like to cut his hair and he’s totally against the barber!

#btd #btd rire #boyfriend to death #lucien rire #sketch #I broke his glasses