#leonid brezhnev

[dadsinsuits]

Leonid Brezhnev & Erich Honecker

#suitdaddy #suiteddaddy #suit and tie #suited daddy #men in suits #suited grandpa #suitedman #suit daddy #kiss #suited men #buisness suit #suited man #suitedmen #Russian man #Russian men #German man #German men #Leonid Brezhnev #Erich Honecker #Леонид Брежнев

[kply-industries]

#animated gif #animated gifs #gif #gifs #old advertisements #old ads #retro #vhs #80S #USSR #brezhnev #leonid brezhnev #nightly news

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom

The other night I drifted nice, continental drift divide, mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs

iykyk

This didn't come out quite the way I had hoped, but my motto for 2024 is "it doesn't have to be good, it just needs to exist."

12:30 - 3:30 start to finish

Original sketch

#rem #it's the end of the world as we know it #iteotwawki #i feel fine #time i had some time alone #leonard bernstein #leonid brezhnev #lenny bruce #lester bangs #1980s #my art #drawing #art #doodle #sketch #birthday party #cheesecake #jelly bean #boom #iykyk

[slack-wise]

Socialist fraternal kiss between Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, East Germany, 1979.

#Leonid Brezhnev #Brezhnev #Erich Honecker #dictators #kissing #Honecker

[todaysdocument]

President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev ended several days of meetings at the White House and Camp David by visiting Nixon’s “Western White House” in San Clemente, on June 24, 1973. 

Collection RN-WHPO: White House Photo Office Collection (Nixon Administration) Series: Nixon White House Photographs

Image description: President Nixon and General Secretary Brezhnev stand outdoors at a wooden desk and shake hands. In the background are palm trees and a Spanish Colonial style building.

#archivesgov #June 24 #1973 #1970s #Richard Nixon #Leonid Brezhnev #foreign relations #USSR #cold war #California

[borf-borfs]

#richard nixon #leonid brezhnev #txt

[mockva]

Leonid Brezhnev with members of the CPSU Central Committee frying bread on the grill

#soviet union #1970s #leonid brezhnev

[revolutionary-marxism]

"In the spring of 1965, a large group of consultants from our and other departments were entrusted with the preparation of a report by the First Secretary of the Central Committee for the 20th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. We were sitting on the fifth floor in a room not far from Brezhnev's office. I was assigned to lead the group, and that is why Brezhnev's assistant [Aleksandrov-Agentov] passed on to me his request to analyze and evaluate the parallel text sent to him by Shelepin. Later, Brezhnev came out himself, shook hands with everyone and turned to me with a question:

- Well, what kind of dissertation did he send?

And the "dissertation", I must say, was serious - no more and no less than an application for a complete revision of the entire party policy of the Khrushchev period in the spirit of frank neo-Stalinism. We counted 17 points of a sharp turn of the political rudder to the old times: the restoration of Stalin's "good name"; revision of the decisions of the XX and XXII congresses; the rejection of the approved Party Program and certain guarantees fixed in it against the recurrence of the personality cult, in particular, the rejection of the rotation of personnel; the liquidation of economic councils and the return to the departmental principle of leadership, the installation of strict labor discipline to the detriment of democracy; return to the line of world revolution and rejection of the principle of peaceful coexistence as well as from the formula for a peaceful transition to socialism in the capitalist countries; restoration of friendship with Mao Zedong through complete concessions to him in regard to criticism of the cult of personality and the general strategy of the communist movement; the renewal of the former characteristics of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia as a "hotbed of revisionism and reformism " ... And much more in the same direction."

- Fyodor Mikhailovich Burlatsky, scientific secretary of the editorial and publishing council for social sciences and political columnist for the Pravda newspaper; F. M. Burlatsky. Leaders and advisers. M.: Politizdat. 1990.

#soviet union #quotes #anti-revisionism #stalin #alexander shelepin #leonid brezhnev #Fyodor Burlatsky #andrei aleksandrov-Agentov #marxism-leninism #cold war #China #Mao Zedong #mao zedong thought

[soviet-space-ace]

Leonid Brezhnev: I’m throwing you a surprise retirement party!

The surprise is you are retiring!

#incorrect quotes #leonid brezhnev #nikita khrushchev #soviet union #ussr

[ersh-ova]

Recently, my class started studying the period of Brezhnev's rule, and the teacher asked what we know about Brezhnev, without touching on politics. I said that he was very fond of receiving awards and titles. A couple of students said how their parents/grandparents spoke about him. Another student remembered old jokes about Brezhnev. The teacher told about Brezhnev's love of hunting and cars.

It was only by the end of the day that we realized that the teacher was most likely asking us about a photo of Brezhnev kissing the president of the GDR/East Germany.

#history #ussr history #ussr #soviet union #text post #leonid brezhnev #brezhnev #hisory stuff #history meme #ersh meme #ersh thinks #russian history #russian history meme

[dweemeister]

August 30, 2022

By Marilyn Berger

(The New York Times) — Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose rise to power in the Soviet Union set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the world with nuclear annihilation, has died in Moscow. He was 91.

His death was announced on Tuesday by Russia’s state news agencies, citing the city’s central clinical hospital. The reports said he had died after an unspecified “long and grave illness.”

Few leaders in the 20th century, indeed in any century, have had such a profound effect on their time. In little more than six tumultuous years, Mr. Gorbachev lifted the Iron Curtain, decisively altering the political climate of the world.

At home he promised and delivered greater openness as he set out to restructure his country’s society and faltering economy. It was not his intention to liquidate the Soviet empire, but within five years of coming to power he had presided over the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He ended the Soviet misadventure in Afghanistan and, in an extraordinary five months in 1989, stood by as the Communist system imploded from the Baltics to the Balkans in countries already weakened by widespread corruption and moribund economies.

For this he was hounded from office by hard-line Communist plotters and disappointed liberals alike, the first group fearing that he would destroy the old system and the other worried that he would not.

It was abroad that he was hailed as heroic. To George F. Kennan, the distinguished American diplomat and Sovietologist, Mr. Gorbachev was “a miracle,” a man who saw the world as it was, unblinkered by Soviet ideology.

#Mikhail Gorbachev #Soviet Union #USSR #Leonid Brezhnev #Yuri Andropov #Konstantin Chernenko #Boris Yeltsin #Eduard Shevardnadze #Russia #Cold War #perestroika #glasnost #Ronald Reagan #Margaret Thatcher #George H.W. Bush #obituary #New York Times

[harryofderby]

I finished reading Developed Socialism- Theory & Practice and so far I didn't get how "developed socialism" is different enough to warrant a separate designation although the chapters about extending and deepening democracy in socialism and the chapters on environmentalism wherein the authors quote 1977 constitution and various laws and the chapter on the foreign policy of socialist states are quite illuminating.

#marxism leninism #socialism #leftism #ussr #soviet union #cpsu #leonid brezhnev #lefties

[master-of-the-opera-house]

Genuinely refuse to believe this hasn't been done before

#soviet history #live slug reaction #Leonid Brezhnev #erich honecker #History shitposting #Ussr #Cold war history #My God help me to survive this deadly love #Berlin wall #history #ik this meme is deader than brezhnev was when he was in power #but. if the shoe fits

[eucanthos]

Dmitri Vrubel   (RU, 1960 - 2022)

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My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, 1990. Graffiti 365 × 480 cm (143.7 in × 189 in) East Side Gallery, Berlin

Régis Bossu of Sygma agency. Original photo: October 07, 1979.

Bossu and Vrubel met in 2009, when the mural was restored.

Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German President Erich Honecker kiss on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republics.

#Dmitri Vrubel #kiss #graffiti #Leonid Brezhnev #Erich Honecker #Regis Bossu #photo #history #Berlin #wall #street art #iconic

[howieabel]

Some people in the West now express anxiety over the fact that the Soviet Union has still further outstripped the United States of America in the “space race.” Some people say that the United States is two years behind, others mention five years. Of course, it is pleasure for us that our country is ahead in the exploration of outer space. But we Soviet people do not regard our space research as an end in itself, as some kind of “race.” In the great and serious cause of the exploration and development of outer space, the spirit of frantic gamblers is alien to us. We see in this cause part and parcel of the tremendous constructive work the Soviet people are doing in conformity with the general line of our party in all spheres of the economy, science and culture, in the name of man, for the sake of man.

Leonid Brezhnev, as quoted in "Text of Brezhnev's Speech at Ceremonies in Red Square", New York Times (October 20, 1964).

#Leonid Brezhnev

[clusterduck28]

The thing I don't understand about Russian homophobia is that the generation that seems most inclined towards it literally grew up under Brezhnev. You know, the guy who was famous for KISSING other world leaders ON THE LIPS as a GREETING

He spent eighteen Slutty Slutty years as the communist party general secretary, going ham on every single set of presidential lips he came across as his shenanigans were being broadcast across every television set in the Soviet Union AND FOR WHAT.

#brezhnev #leonid brezhnev #russia #ussr #homophobia mention #clustered thoughts