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shihlun · 1 year

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Celebrating New Year in Costumes, 1955.

“Despite the threat of a Communist invasion of the islands North of Formosa, the Nationalist Chinese held their usual rip roaring celebration of Chinese New Year. During a parade through the streets of Taipei, Nationalist wore rubber masks and carried placards in Chinese characters saying "Traitor Mao Tse-Tung" and "King of The Killers, Malenkov." The parade also celebrated Freedom Day, the day the anti-Communist Chinese were released from South Korean prison camps, and allowed to join the Nationalists on Formosa.“

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toyaroho · 3 months

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just Beria and Malenkov fanart

#malenkov #georgy malenkov #beria #Lavrentiy Beria #ussr #fanart #digital illustration #soviet #my art

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warsofasoiaf · 1 year

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If the Anti-Party Group had succeeded, would Bulganin have been like a Stalin light, or would he and the other Stalinists in that group have kept some of Khrushchev's reforms without the denouncing of Stalin?

Many of the Anti-Party Group, notably Molotov, were ardent Stalinists and disliked Khrushchev's condemnation of Stalin's purges - many of them were key figures in the purges (as was Khrushchev himself). However, Malenkov's official economic policy when he was Premier was to focus on consumer goods in an attempt to raise the standard of living of the Soviet Union, which hardly sounds like Stalin who focused almost exclusively on industrialization. Shepilov, according to Khrushchev, was convinced "at the last minute" to join, suggesting that Shepilov's own motives were more anti-Khrushchev, who had been consolidating power rapidly in the power struggle following Stalin's death and Beria's ouster.

So how much of it was a return to some of the core tenets of Stalinism, most notably highly centralized governance amd how much of it was due to fear of being replaced by Khrushchev and protecting their political careers and cushy lives as member of the Soviet's ruling class is an open question.

Thanks for the question, Gohr.

SomethingLIkeALawyer, Hand of the King

#history #soviet union #vyacheslav molotov #georgy malenkov

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kaijuno · 5 months

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In light of Fall Out Boy’s GARBAGE cover of the song. Let’s learn about the original. Notice how they’re actually in chronological order instead of just random references 😒😒😒😒

1949

Harry Truman was inaugurated as U.S. president after being elected in 1948 to his own term; previously he was sworn in following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He authorized the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II, on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively.

Doris Day enters the public spotlight with the films My Dream Is Yours and It’s a Great Feeling as well as popular songs like “It’s Magic”; divorces her second husband.

Red China: The Communist Party of China wins the Chinese Civil War, establishing the People’s Republic of China.

Johnnie Ray signs his first recording contract with Okeh Records, although he would not become popular for another two years.

South Pacific, the prize-winning musical, opens on Broadway on April 7.

Walter Winchell is an aggressive radio and newspaper journalist credited with inventing the gossip column.

Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees go to the World Series five times in the 1940s, winning four of them.

1950

Joe McCarthy, the US Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-communist crusade with his Lincoln Day speech.

Richard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate.

Studebaker, a popular car company, begins its financial downfall.

Television is becoming widespread throughout Europe and North America.

North Korea and South Korea declare war after Northern forces stream south on June 25.

Marilyn Monroe soars in popularity with five new movies, including The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve, and attempts suicide after the death of friend Johnny Hyde who asked to marry her several times, but she refused respectfully. Monroe would later (1954) be married for a brief time to Joe DiMaggio (mentioned in the previous verse).

1951

The Rosenbergs, Ethel and Julius, were convicted on March 29 for espionage.

H-Bomb is in the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950 and first tested in late 1952.

Sugar Ray Robinson, a champion welterweight boxer.

Panmunjom, the border village in Korea, is the location of truce talks between the parties of the Korean War.

Marlon Brando is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire.

The King and I, musical, opens on Broadway on March 29.

The Catcher in the Rye, a controversial novel by J. D. Salinger, is published.

1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.

The vaccine for polio is privately tested by Jonas Salk.

England’s got a new queen: Queen Elizabeth II succeeds to the throne upon the death of her father, George VI, and is crowned the next year.

Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the world Heavyweight champion.

Liberace has a popular 1950s television show for his musical entertainment.

Santayana goodbye: George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies on September 26.

1953

Joseph Stalin dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union.

Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Stalin for six months following his death. Malenkov had presided over Stalin’s purges of party “enemies”, but would be spared a similar fate by Nikita Khrushchev mentioned later in verse.

Gamal Abdel Nasser acts as the true power behind the new Egyptian nation as Muhammad Naguib’s minister of the interior.

Sergei Prokofiev, the composer, dies on March 5, the same day as Stalin.

Winthrop Rockefeller and his wife Barbara are involved in a highly publicized divorce, culminating in 1954 with a record-breaking $5.5 million settlement.

Roy Campanella, an African-American baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, receives the National League’s Most Valuable Player award for the second time.

Communist bloc is a group of communist nations dominated by the Soviet Union at this time. Probably a reference to the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.

1954

Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and enters private practice with the fall of McCarthy. He also worked to prosecute the Rosenbergs, mentioned earlier.

Juan Perón spends his last full year as President of Argentina before a September 1955 coup.

Arturo Toscanini is at the height of his fame as a conductor, performing regularly with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on national radio.

Dacron is an early artificial fiber made from the same plastic as polyester.

Dien Bien Phu falls. A village in North Vietnam falls to Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap, leading to the creation of North Vietnam and South Vietnam as separate states.

“Rock Around the Clock” is a hit single released by Bill Haley & His Comets in May, spurring worldwide interest in rock and roll music.

1955

Albert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76.

James Dean achieves success with East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, gets nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, and dies in a car accident on September 30 at the age of 24.

Brooklyn’s got a winning team: The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series for the only time before their move to Los Angeles.

Davy Crockett is a Disney television miniseries about the legendary frontiersman of the same name. The show was a huge hit with young boys and inspired a short-lived “coonskin cap” craze.

Peter Pan is broadcast on TV live and in color from the 1954 version of the stage musical starring Mary Martin on March 7. Disney released an animated version the previous year.

Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, beginning his pop career.

Disneyland opens on July 17, 1955 as Walt Disney’s first theme park.

1956

Brigitte Bardot appears in her first mainstream film And God Created Woman and establishes an international reputation as a French “sex kitten”.

Budapest is the capital city of Hungary and site of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Alabama is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr figure prominently.

Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin’s “cult of personality” on February 25.

Princess Grace Kelly releases her last film, High Society, and marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Peyton Place, the best-selling novel by Grace Metalious, is published. Though mild compared to today’s prime time, it shocked the reserved values of the 1950s.

Trouble in the Suez: The Suez Crisis boils as Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal on October 29.

1957

Little Rock, Arkansas is the site of an anti-integration standoff, as Governor Orval Faubus stops the Little Rock Nine from attending Little Rock Central High School and President Dwight D. Eisenhower deploys the 101st Airborne Division to counteract him.

Boris Pasternak, the Russian author, publishes his famous novel Doctor Zhivago.

Mickey Mantle is in the middle of his career as a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star for the sixth year in a row.

Jack Kerouac publishes his first novel in seven years, On the Road.

Sputnik becomes the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, marking the start of the space race.

Chou En-Lai, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, survives an assassination attempt on the charter airliner Kashmir Princess.

Bridge on the River Kwai is released as a film adaptation of the 1954 novel and receives seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

1958

Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves U.S. intervention.

Charles de Gaulle is elected first president of the French Fifth Republic following the Algerian Crisis.

California baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California and become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. They are the first major league teams west of Kansas City.

Charles Starkweather Homicide captures the attention of Americans, in which he kills eleven people between January 25 and 29 before being caught in a massive manhunt in Douglas, Wyoming.

Children of Thalidomide: Mothers taking the drug Thalidomide had children born with congenital birth defects caused by the sleeping aid and antiemetic, which was also used at times to treat morning sickness.

1959

Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash on February 3 with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, in a day that had a devastating impact on the country and youth culture. Joel prefaces the lyric with a Holly signature vocal hiccup: “Uh-huh, uh-huh.”

Ben-Hur, a film based around the New Testament starring Charlton Heston, wins eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Space Monkey: Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18.

The Mafia are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American origin.

Hula hoops reach 100 million in sales as the latest toy fad.

Fidel Castro comes to power after a revolution in Cuba and visits the United States later that year on an unofficial twelve-day tour.

Edsel is a no-go: Production of this car marque ends after only three years due to poor sales.

1960

U-2: An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960.

Syngman Rhee was rescued by the CIA after being forced to resign as leader of South Korea for allegedly fixing an election and embezzling more than US $20 million.

Payola, illegal payments for radio broadcasting of songs, was publicized due to Dick Clark’s testimony before Congress and Alan Freed’s public disgrace.

John F. Kennedy beats Richard Nixon in the November 8 general election.

Chubby Checker popularizes the dance The Twist with his cover of the song of the same name.

Psycho: An Alfred Hitchcock thriller, based on a pulp novel by Robert Bloch and adapted by Joseph Stefano, which becomes a landmark in graphic violence and cinema sensationalism. The screeching violins heard briefly in the background of the song are a trademark of the film’s soundtrack.

Belgians in the Congo: The Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) was declared independent of Belgium on June 30, with Joseph Kasavubu as President and Patrice Lumumba as Prime Minister.

1961

Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression.

Adolf Eichmann, a “most wanted” Nazi war criminal, is traced to Argentina and captured by Mossad agents. He is covertly taken to Israel where he is put on trial for crimes against humanityin Germany during World War II, convicted, and hanged.

Stranger in a Strange Land, written by Robert A. Heinlein, is a breakthrough best-seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation.

Bob Dylan is signed to Columbia Records after a New York Times review by critic Robert Shelton.

Berlin is separated into West Berlin and East Berlin, and from the rest of East Germany, when the Berlin Wall is erected on August 13 to prevent citizens escaping to the West.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion fails, an attempt by United States-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.

1962

Lawrence of Arabia: The Academy Award-winning film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence starring Peter O’Toole premieres in America on December 16.

British Beatlemania: The Beatles, a British rock group, gain Ringo Starr as drummer and Brian Epstein as manager, and join the EMI’s Parlophone label. They soon become the world’s most famous rock band, with the word “Beatlemania” adopted by the press for their fans’ unprecedented enthusiasm. It also began the British Invasion in the United States.

Ole’ Miss: James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi

John Glenn: Flew the first American manned orbital mission termed “Friendship 7” on February 20.

Liston beats Patterson: Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson fight for the world heavyweight championship on September 25, ending in a first-round knockout. This match marked the first time Patterson had ever been knocked out and one of only eight losses in his 20-year professional career.

1963

Pope Paul VI: Cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected to the papacy and takes the papal name of Paul VI.

Malcolm X makes his infamous statement “The chickens have come home to roost” about the Kennedy assassination, thus causing the Nation of Islam to censor him.

British politician sex: The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, has a relationship with a showgirl, and then lies when questioned about it before the House of Commons. When the truth came out, it led to his own resignation and undermined the credibility of the Prime Minister.

JFK blown away: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on November 22 while riding in an open convertible through Dallas.

1965

Birth control: In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as “the pill”, first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released a papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin.

Ho Chi Minh: A Vietnamese communist, who served as President of Vietnam from 1954–1969. March 2 Operation Rolling Thunder begins bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail supply line from North Vietnam to the Vietcong rebels in the south. On March 8, the first U.S. combat troops, 3,500 marines, land in South Vietnam.

1968

Richard Nixon back again: Former Vice President Nixon is elected President in 1968.

1969

Moonshot: Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing, successfully lands on the moon.

Woodstock: Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement.

1974–75

Watergate: Political scandal that began when the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC was broken into. After the break-in, word began to spread that President Richard Nixon (a Republican) may have known about the break-in, and tried to cover it up. The scandal would ultimately result in the resignation of President Nixon, and to date, this remains the only time that anyone has ever resigned the United States Presidency.

Punk rock: The Ramones form, with the Sex Pistols following in 1975, bringing in the punk era.

1976–77

(An item from 1977 comes before three items from 1976 to make the song scan.)

Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel in 1977 and negotiates the Camp David Accords with Egypt’s president in 1978.

Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States in 1980, but he first attempted to run for the position in 1976.

Palestine: a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state and to end the Israeli occupation.

Terror on the airline: Numerous aircraft hijackings take place, specifically, the Palestinian hijack of Air France Flight 139 and the subsequent Operation Entebbe in Uganda.

1979

Ayatollah’s in Iran: During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the West-backed and secular Shah is overthrown as the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini gains power after years in exile and forces Islamic law.

Russians in Afghanistan: Following their move into Afghanistan, Soviet forces fight a ten-year war, from 1979 to 1989.

1983

Wheel of Fortune: A hit television game show which has been TV’s highest-rated syndicated program since 1983.

Sally Ride: In 1983 she becomes the first American woman in space. Ride’s quip from space “Better than an E-ticket”, harkens back to the opening of Disneyland mentioned earlier, with the E-ticket purchase needed for the best rides.

Heavy metal suicide: In the 1980s Ozzy Osbourne and the bands Judas Priest and Metallica were brought to court by parents who accused the musicians of hiding subliminal pro-suicide messages in their music.

Foreign debts: Persistent U.S. trade deficits

Homeless vets: Veterans of the Vietnam War, including many disabled ex-military, are reported to be left homeless and impoverished.

AIDS: A collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is first detected and recognized in the 1980s, and was on its way to becoming a pandemic.

Crack cocaine use surged in the mid-to-late 1980s.

1984

Bernie Goetz: On December 22, Goetz shot four young men who he said were threatening him on a New York City subway. Goetz was charged with attempted murder but was acquitted of the charges, though convicted of carrying an unlicensed gun.

1988

Hypodermics on the shore: Medical waste was found washed up on beaches in New Jersey after being illegally dumped at sea. Before this event, waste dumped in the oceans was an “out of sight, out of mind” affair. This has been cited as one of the crucial turning points in popular opinion on environmentalism.

1989

China’s under martial law: On May 20, China declares martial law, enabling them to use force of arms against protesting students to end the Tiananmen Square protests.

Rock-and-roller cola wars: Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi each run marketing campaigns using rock & roll and popular music stars to reach the teenage and young adult demographic.

Short summaries of all 119 references mentioned in the song, you’re welcome.

#look fall out boy is one of my fave bands but this is inexcusable #fall out boy #Billy Joel #music #Spotify

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kriegsminister · 2 months

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Hanoi, Vietnam - 1954

From left to right: portraits of Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Georgy Malenkov are posted on a wall. From a LIFE magazine article detailing the communist takeover of Vietnam.

#aesthetic #history #vintage #cold war #vietnam #south vietnam #ho chi minh city #mao zedong #hanoi #hanoi vietnam

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schlock-luster-video · 6 months

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Day 26 of Inktober!

Today's prompt is "Remove." Plenty of folks get removed from positions of power and erased from reality itself in The Death of Stalin. Here's a new drawing of Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov!

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joshuawister · 1 year

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«Brezhnev Doctrine» - The common dogma of Ilyich's Party and Vladimir's KGB

After the death of Ironman in 1953, two military officers working under him lead the Party. One is Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, who directly succeeded Stalin's leadership of CPSU (Communist Party of Soviet Union, locally called KPSS), and the Soviet Union. NKVD head Lavrentij Berija, who was deemed as a loyal Stalinist, got purged by this army officer. He also expelled his rival Georgy Malenkov from the Presidium away to Kazakhstan, as the result Khrushchev denied the way of Stalinism, which consisted of personality cult.

In 60's, those intelligent agents called Siloviki (especially who belongs to KGB) was banned to join the CPSU Politburo, because Khrushchev thought his rivals such as Berija came from Siloviki faction, then NKVD was reformed and divided to some minor organizations into KGB and MVD.

After Cuban Missile Crisis, the another military officer started to "replace" his predecessor Khrushchev. His name's as known as Ilyich, the same patronym to Lenin, who also respected Stalin. After Khrushchev's resign, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev became the General Secretary of CPSU as his respected Ironman did. Brezhnev finally, in 70's lift almost "restrictions" by Khrushchev, including Siloviki's politics. Brezhnev's "military works" are well known... Vietnam War, Prague Spring, and Soviet-Afghan War. The door to politics in CPSU was opened again for Siloviki, it means the modern tradition of military leadership in Kremlin resurged.

The dogma of Brezhnev Doctorine is limited sovereignty throughout all Soviet allies so its military power Soviet Army is deemed to rightfully occupate the members of its treaty organization, the problem is this trend of "Soviet" diplomacy succeeded by modern Vladimir in Kremlin. He continues the war, with his treaty organization of CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organisation).

#history #ussr #russia #soviet #stalin #brezhnev

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brookstonalmanac · 2 months

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Events 3.6 (after 1940)

1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series. 1943 – World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eight Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later. 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later. 1944 – World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town. 1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins. 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. 1951 – Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. 1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British. 1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. 1964 – Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece. 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office. 1967 – Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. 1968 – Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. 1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. 1984 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners. 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193. 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius. 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. 2003 – Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board. 2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem. 2018 – Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth. 2020 – Thirty-two people are killed and 81 are injured when gunmen open fire on a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.

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20thpresidium · 5 months

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EMERGENCY NEWS: KGB’s REVOLUTION - Georgy Malenkov

“ The recent appointment of Alexander Shitlepin as the Head of KGB has sparked controversies across the nation! In his recent press release titled “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, he explicitly declared that “all youths in the Soviet Union (are) to stand faithfully by the side of the communist party of the soviet union and Komsomol”. Does it ring a bell? Can anyone draw the link where… just 9 months ago, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND high-school-aged Komsomol members were working in the fields in Kazakhstan, FARMING all sorts of crops, flaring OUTRAGE from their parents. This instance of Alexander Shelepelin’s shortcomings had painted the USSR as an INTERNATIONAL laughing stock! Is this what Shelepin meant when he ordered the Komsomolskaya to stand faithfully by the side of the communist party? Speculations have been made and pragmatic concerns of the welfare of the children of the Soviet Union have been raised. Furthermore, in his latest speech in the Presidium, he asserted that he “want(s) to take back Hungary”. Would the abrupt wave of power entrusted to him be abused? Bold ambition with the delusion that by being the Head of KGB dictates him as one of the most capable and powerful leaders is simply too risky for the safety of our nation! How, just HOW can we afford to risk such turmoil AGAIN ???”

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playitagin · 10 months

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1953-Lavrentiy Beria arrested

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (/ˈbɛriə/; Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, tr.Lavréntiy Pávlovich Bériya, IPA: [ˈbʲerʲiə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია, romanized: lavrent'i beria, IPA: [bɛɾiɑ]; 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during the Second World War, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin in 1941. He officially joined the Politburo in 1946.

After Stalin's death, Beria was appointed First Deputy Premier and reappointed head of the MVD, which he merged with the MGB. His close ally Malenkov was the new Premier and initially the most powerful man in the post-Stalin leadership. Beria was second-most powerful, and given Malenkov's personal weakness, was poised to become the power behind the throne and ultimately leader himself. Khrushchev became Party Secretary. Kliment Voroshilov became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (i.e., the nominal head of state).

Khrushchev opposed the alliance between Beria and Malenkov, but he was initially unable to challenge them. Khrushchev's opportunity came in June 1953 when a spontaneous uprising against the East German communist regime broke out in East Berlin. Based on Beria's statements, other leaders suspected that in the wake of the uprising, he would consider trading the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War for support from the United States, as had been received in the Second World War. The East German uprising convinced Molotov, Malenkov and Bulganin that Beria's policies were dangerous and destabilising to Soviet power. Within days, Khrushchev persuaded the other leaders to support a coup d'etat against Beria.

Beria, as first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and an influential Politburo member, saw himself as Stalin's successor, while wider Politburo members had contrasting thoughts on future leadership. On 26 June 1953, Beria was arrested and held in an undisclosed location near Moscow. Accounts of his downfall vary considerably. The historical consensus is that Khrushchev prepared an elaborate ambush, convening a meeting of the Presidium on 26 June, where he suddenly launched a scathing attack on Beria, accusing him of being a traitor and spy in the pay of British intelligence. Beria was taken completely by surprise. He asked, "What's going on, Nikita Sergeyevich? Why are you picking fleas in my trousers?"

When Beria finally realized what was happening and plaintively appealed to Malenkov (an old friend) to speak for him, Malenkov silently hung his head and pressed a button on his desk. This was an arranged signal to Marshal Georgy Zhukov and a group of armed officers in a nearby room, who burst in and arrested Beria.

#Jun.26.1953 #Lavrentiy Beria #Communist Party of the Soviet Union #power struggle #post Stalin #history today

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madamepestilence · 1 year

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So recently I've come to a profound realization as to why conservatives are so opposed to socialism, or at least some conservatives, by listening carefully to my father's responses during our rather frequent political aggressions

(I don't think it's appropriate to call them, "discussions," or, "arguments," as he doesn't listen to my side and employs tactics of the Alt-Right Handbook

[as perfectly described in this series by Innuendo Studios: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ ])

Now I'm going to preface this by clarifying that my father is a very right-leaning conservative, and I'd even be willing to tag him as Alt-Right (again by Innuendo's definition of the term), but more as a conservative that's become indoctrinated into fascism without realizing that it IS fascism.

In several of our conversations, I've noted a distinct dissimilarity in the way that the left and the right process the words, "leftist," "socialist," "communist," and "marxist."

As an oversimplification of bringing this up previously, prior to The Communist Manifesto being written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848, the terms Socialist and Communist were purely used as fearmongering for those who didn't support the status quo,

and became mostly separated around the English translations of The Communist Manifesto when Marx came to the realization that Communism had its flaws as state-led and that Socialism would function better to his beliefs being democratically-led,

(as in, 1 vote per person without an analogue to the House of Representatives i.e. a republic like Ancient Rome or the United States),

but that it was more important to spread the word of Communism first and let people improve it later - but I digress.

On the Right, they process those words as synonymous,

(and while Leftist does act as a catch-all for the other three, I will note that Marxist is a bit redundant as, "the beliefs of Karl Marx," are just Communism and later Socialism, so there's incongruency within Marxist communities about what they actually believe - but again I digress),

and also synonymous with Fascism, which most Rightists are, at least on paper, strongly opposed to.

They ironically believe this because Fascist propaganda... was successful.

Mussolini exploited unions to stage a coup and wrest power against Italy.

Adolf Hitler was an infamous member of a socialist group and was notably an extremist despised by the majority of the group, also attempting to exploit unions to stage a coup of the Austrian government. After this failure and his writing of Mein Kampf in prison, Mr. Hitler again pretended to advocate for Socialists, calling his party:

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,

which translates to the National Socialist German Workers' Party, simplified in English as National Socialists, or Nazis,

and successfully created propaganda mirroring Socialist beliefs, only to betray them by creating the first camp for Communists and Socialists on his journey to dehumanize and otherize Jews, Roma, Sinti, Slavs, Black people, both physically and mentally disabled people, gay people, trans people, and conflicting religions such as Jehovah's Witnesses.

Sideways to this, leader and head of government Vladimir Lenin, leaders Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, leader and head of state Mikhail Gorbachev, head of state Mikhail Kalinin, and head of government Ivan Silayev,

and the Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (Soyuz Sovyetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik - CCCP), or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR),

did a very good job at attempting to start a Communist country, but got overridden by prioritizing nationalism and state control, ultimately falling into something adjacent to Fascism.

Inversely, those on the Left believe in Leftist concepts such as Socialism, Communism, and other Left ideologies as separate, and defined by their intended purposes, not prior failed attempts or other systems of socioeconomics or politics attempting to mimic it for their own gains.

Consequently, this creates a divide at the very core of an argument, where Conservatives equate Leftism as equaling Fascism under a further warped form of horseshoe theory in which, to them, Fascism is as far Left as you can get, and there is no far Right analogue,

and Leftists equate Leftism as being inherently incompatible with Fascism.

So chances are, you and a Conservative may actually believe in similar principles, but have completely different ways of going about it as a consequence of your political beliefs, and it's probably best to explain this schism in definition before engaging in discussion, so that they can understand that you're not trying to promote Fascism.

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warsofasoiaf · 1 year

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Besides Beria or Khrushchev, were there any other actual contenders to take over after Stalin's death?

The Anti-Party Group, which was led by Malenkov, Molotov, and Kaganovich, although their move was to appoint Bulganin so he technically would have been the new First Secretary.

Thanks for the question, George.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#soviet union #history #vyacheslav molotov #georgy malenkov #nikolai bulganin #lazar kaganovich

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