#Josef Stalin

[columboscreens]

do you know the difference?

#columbo #peter falk #josef stalin #misc #theyre very easy to confuse #yes ive got a stalin tag on this blog now

[jocrude]

What is the Marxist Explanation for the fact that all the old Bolsheviks look like knockoff versions of each other?

#marxism #bolshevism #vladimir lenin #nikolai bukharin #leon trotsky #yakov sverdlov #josef stalin #lev kamenev #leftcom

[acervorevolucionario]

Josef Stalin no convés do cruzador soviético Chervona Ukraina da Frota do Mar Negro, 25 de julho de 1929. Autor Desconhecido.

#Stalin #Josef Stalin #URSS #Chervona Ukraina #Mar Negro #1929 #União Soviética

[historyandchill]

Dzierzynski and Stalin

#history #history art #artists on tumblr #felix dzerzhinsky #josef stalin #ussr #Cheka #my art

[lutnistas]

the Palace of Culture and Science ( Warsaw / Poland )

#travel #travelphotography #photooftheday #aroundtheworld #explore #pałackulturyinauki #soviet architecture #josef stalin #prl #capital city #citywalk #visitwarsaw #onedaytrip #pkin #palaceofcultureandscience #adventure #polska #architecture #soviet #soviet aesthetic #poland #warszawa #warsaw #trip

[ammg-old2]

All that said, we should be worried as much by the prospect of Putin’s defeat as by any victory. What if Putin were toppled? This is not like the last days of the Soviet Union. There is no nice, decent Yeltsin-like or Gorbachev-like figure with the power and standing to immediately take over.

“The old Soviet Union had institutions — there were party and state organs — central and provincial — which were responsible for maintaining their bailiwicks, as well as some order of succession,” Leon Aron, a Russia scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, whose book about Putin’s Russia is being published in October, remarked to me. “When Putin came in, he bulldozed or subverted all political and social structures outside the Kremlin.”

But Russian history does offer some surprising twists, Aron added: “Longer-term, historically, successors to Russia’s reactionary rulers are often more liberal, especially early in their term: Alexander I after Paul I, Alexander II after Nicholas I, Khrushchev after Stalin, Gorbachev after Andropov. So if we can get through a transition from Putin, there is some hope.”

In the near-term, though, if Putin were to be ousted, we could well end up with someone worse. How would you feel if Prigozhin were in the Kremlin this morning, commanding Russia’s nuclear arsenal?

You could also get disorder or civil war and the crackup of Russia into warlord/oligarch fiefs. As much as I detest Putin, I detest disorder even more, because when a big state cracks apart it is very hard to put it back together. The nuclear weapons and criminality that could spill out of a disintegrated Russia would change the world.

This is not a defense of Putin. It is an expression of rage at what he did to his country, making it into a ticking time bomb spread across 11 time zones. Putin has taken the whole world hostage.

If he wins, the Russian people lose. But if he loses and his successor is disorder, the whole world loses.

#current events #history #politics #russian politics #russo-ukrainian war #2022 russian invasion of ukraine #ussr #russia #yevgeny prigozhin #vladimir putin #alexander i #paul i #alexander ii #nicholas i #nikita khrushchev #josef stalin #mikhail gorbachev #yuri andropov #wagner group

[evilhorse]

Shades of Lenin!

#the invaders #josef stalin #Moscow #ussr #world war two #roy thomas #alan kupperberg #frank springer #marvel comics #comics #70s comics #bronze age comics

[polemik]

Kadir gecesi rakı içen kabin memurlarını işten atan Pegasus'un sahibi "laik" Sabancıgil Miami'de parti yaparken fotoğraf paylaşmış bugün. Bugün diyorum. Depremde kim bilir kaç insanın öldüğü bile belli değilken.

Aklıma Stalin yoldaşın Rusya için söyledikleri geldi. Rusyayı silin, Türkiye yazın, harfi harfine geçerlidir, hem de 118 yıl sonra:

"Rusya'nın birlik içinde ve bölünemez olduğuna dair cesur iddialarda bulunulan zamanlar geride kaldı. Şimdi her çocuk bile biliyor ki 'birlik içinde ve bölünemez' Rusya diye bir şey yok, Rusya uzun zaman önce iki karşıt sınıfa bölündü: burjuvazi ve proletarya.

Şu artık kimse için bir sır değil, iki sınıf arasındaki bu mücadele modern yaşamımızın etrafında döndüğü ana eksendir.

Refah içindeki burjuvazi uzlaşılmaz düşmanımızdır; onun refahı bizim yoksulluğumuza dayanır, onun eğlencesi kederimiz sayesindedir."

Proleter Sınıf ve Proleterlerin Partisi Josef Stalin, 1905

#suzan sabancı #sabancı #sabancı holding #komünizm #stalin #josef stalin #tkp #türkiye komünist partisi #deprem

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"HE DON'T SAY NUTHIN', HE JUST KEEPS ROLLING ALONG," Toronto Star. March 17, 1943. Page 6. ---- A tank labelled OLD MAN RUSSIA rolls forward blasting and conquering all before it. Onlookers carrying documents marked POST WAR PLANS and DESIGNS FOR A NEW WORLD look aghast and confused. Only a month after the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, observers from Britain, her empire, and the United States worry about post-war Soviet plans.

#battle of stalingrad #russian front #eastern front #soviet offensive #красная армия #red army #Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́ #Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная а́рмия #great patriotic war #soviet union #world war II #stalinism #postwar planning #editorial cartoons #political cartoons #josef stalin

[columboscreens]

where did that falk/stalin pic came from lmao

peter falk played josef stalin in a chayefsky play on broadway. the play wasn't very well-received so it was only a short stint, but we got peter "stalin" falk out of it

for what it's worth, that wasn't his only role as a communist authoritarian dictator--let us not forget twilight zone castro

i've just got one other thing for ya, senor batista...

#cant believe they never cast this eastern european jewish man as hitler. we couldve had a trifecta #peter falk #josef stalin #fidel castro #ask #misc

[justwatchmyeyes]

Die Deutschen greifen uns an! Egal, erst mal wird gesoffen.

Josef Stalin

#Josef Stalin #quotes #life #love #important #tumblr #instagood #aesthetic #girl #literature #sad quotes #sad poem #zitate

[acervorevolucionario]

Josef Stalin durante seu exílio na Sibéria em 1915.

#Stalin #Josef Stalin #Sibéria #1915 #URSS #União Soviética

[viktorviolettaenterprises]

Iosif Stalin / Dzughasvilli (Josef Stalin)

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#the sims 4 #simsdump #sims dump #ussr #soviet union #josef stalin #stalin #ww2 #world war 2 #red army #communist #gulag #the great purge #purge #katyn massacre #katyn #sims cas #cas #historical #ts4 historical

[historyandchill]

Please Mr.Stalin don’t send me to Siberia 🥺

#history #history art #my art sketch #russian revolution #josef stalin #pen art

[nicklloydnow]

“Nearly all the accused had been savagely beaten. Bukharin was spared this but was visibly a broken man. From his prison cell he had written a note to Stalin: 'Koba, why is my death necessary for you?' But Stalin wanted blood. Constantly consulted by Chief Prosecutor Andrei Vyshinski and Vasili Ulrikh at the end of the court's working day, he ordered that the world's press should be convinced of the veracity of the confessions before sentences were passed. Many Western journalists were indeed hoodwinked. The verdict was announced on 13 March: nearly all the defendants were to be shot.

Two days later Stalin approved a further operation to purge 'anti-Soviet elements’. This time he wanted 57,200 people to be arrested across the USSR. Of these, he and Yezhov had agreed, fully 48,000 were to be rapidly tried by troiki and executed. Yezhov, by now practised at the management of such operations, attended to his duties with enthusiasm. Through spring, summer and autumn 1938 the carnage continued as the NKVD meat-grinder performed its grisly task on Stalin's behalf. Having put Yezhov's hand at the controls and ordered him to start the machine, Stalin could keep it running as long as it suited him.

Stalin never saw the Lubyanka cellars. He did not even glimpse the meat-grinder of the operations. Yezhov asked for and received vast resources for his work. He needed more than his executive officials in the NKVD to complete it. The Great Terror required stenographers, guards, executioners, cleaners, torturers, clerks, railwaymen, truck drivers and informers. Lorries marked ‘Meat' or 'Vegetables’ took victims out to rural districts such as Butovo near Moscow where killing fields had been prepared. Trains, often travelling through cities by night, transported Gulag prisoners to the Russian Far North, to Siberia or to Kazakhstan in wagons designed for cattle. The unfortunates were inadequately fed and watered on the journey, and the climate - bitterly cold in the winter and monstrously hot in summer - aggravated the torment. Stalin said he did not want the NKVD's detainees to be given holiday-home treatment. The small comforts that had been available to him in Novaya Uda, Narym, Solvychegodsk or even Kureika were systematically withheld. On arrival in the labour camps they were kept constantly hungry. Yerhov's dieticians had worked out the minimum calorie intake for them to carry out heavy work in timber felling, gold mining or building construction; but the corruption in the Gulag was so general that inmates rarely received their full rations - and Stalin made no recorded effort to discover what conditions were really like for them.

Such was the chaos of the Great Terror that despite Stalin's insistence that each victim should be formally processed by the troiki, the number of arrests and executions has not been ascertained with exactitude. Mayhem precluded such precision. But all the records, different as ther are about details, point in the same general direction. Altogether it would seem that a rough total of one and a half million people were seized by the NKVD in 1937-8. Only around two hundred thousand were eventually released. To be caught in the maw of the NKVD usually meant to face a terrible sentence. The troiki worked hard at their appalling task. The impression got around - or was allowed to get around - that Stalin used nearly all of the arrestees as forced labourers in the Gulag. In fact the NKVD was under instructions to deliver about half of its victims not to the new camps in Siberia or north Russia but to the execution pits outside most cities. Roughly three quarters of a million persons perished under a hail of bullets in that brief period of two years. The Great Terror had its ghastly logic.” - Robert Service, ‘Stalin: A Biography’ (2004) [p. 355 - 356]

#stalin #josef stalin #service #robert service #great terror #gulag #nkvd #soviet union #ussr #cccp #communism #russia #koba

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Queen Genepil (1905-1938) was the last queen of Mongolia and wife of the last Mongol Khan. After the death of her husband, she was arrested and executed in 1938, as part of the systematic Stalinist destruction of Mongolian culture and any reminders of the old regime.

In other words, eff you Stalin! She was also the inspiration behind Queen Amidala/Padmé. Killed at 33 when she was 5 months pregnant. Also: All that remained of her memory was a secret, forbidden song passed on to a historian by an old man who had been taught it by a former servant of the 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu, who taught it to him while the two were imprisoned by the communists.

Photo: The last queen of Bogd (1905-1938) Tsenpil (or Genepil).

https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/one-minute-story/last-queen-of-mongolia

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/lhpj5j/queen_genepil_19051938_was_the_last_queen_of/

#queen genepil #mongolian #mongolian culture #stalin #josef stalin #queen amidala #padmé #padmé amidala #star wars #royalty #queen #queens #monoglian history #tsenpil #queen tsenpil #bogd #the last queen