The fact that thousands of Jewish families across the United States are being forced to decide whether to send their children to their first day of school or observe their religious practices is just more proof that antisemitism is culturally Ingrained and that westerners never cared about diversity or considering religious and ethnic minorities. Having one of the most important school days on one of the most important Jewish holidays (Rosh Hashanah) is so tone deaf, especially with the increasing amount of antisemitism and violence against America’s Jewish community this year.
“For the first time, rowers from Romania have taken part in international competitions in Moscow. During the parade following the trophy presentation, a Romanian rower kisses a rower from the USSR.”
Spring sowing in the fields of the country. Komsomolets Volodya Kovalenko. Vsevolod Tarasevich, 1950s, Crimea region, Evpatoria district, Pervomaisky collective farm, MAMM/MDF.
I thought it would be helpful to put my reblog on a singular post also
Most of the Eastern European countries offer help, financial or other, if you live in Poland, Kazachstan, Romania, Estonia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech, etc, etc there is a high chance that your cities, especially the big ones will organize donations of some sort, if you cannot donate money, but you do have some household items, medicine, hygiene products (ESPECIALLY ALL KINDS OF MENSTRUAL PADS, TAMPONS, DIAPERS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS), underwear of all kinds, food, especially the ones that can be hold for long and prepared quickly, any kind of fire sources, warm clothes, blankets, COVID MASKS!!!, matresses, sleeping bags, anything that can help, gather those and search for donation events in your cities
I know there are those kinds of events in Cracow, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Gdynia, Sopot, Zakopane, Poznań, Sandomierz etc, the smaller cities probably have some as well, I will leave it to you to find those
There will also be protests, but please, be careful, because as far as in Poland, our political situation is fucking difficult and we can't be sure how the goverment and police will react
And for the love of motherfucking god, I better not see any fucking anti-immigration bullshit, I didn't have any patience for this kind of fuckery since the 2004, you bet your ass I will not have it right now.
Immigrants and refugees are welcomed, and should be treated with respect and love
To anyone who doesn't agree with that, get the fuck out of my blog. Poland for most of it's history welcomed all kinds of immigrants, and when our country was being fucked by Russia and Germany, remember our struggles, remember how we discussed the lack of help from Western countries that we had an alliance with. Remember that we fought against the opression by getting together as a community.
Do better, because our great-grandparents did not helped our Jewish brothers and sisters, hiding them in our homes, risking their lives in process, for your xenophobic asses to behave like this towards people who are escaping a literal fucking war.
And remember, this war is not being supported by most Russian citizens. Putin is a dictator, that has been fucking with elections since who fucking knows how long and has been set on building back up USSR, because he's a fucking psychopath
I know that I have to change my passport soon, this USSR passport that I love so much. I am a citizen of the USSR, she is the one I adore. But now I have to change it, change it. I don’t like this new passport, and I never will.
Why the USSR? Well because that is my country. I defended her, understand? Now the times and values have changed, but I still prefer that country more. I fought in a war for her, do you understand, young man!
As long as I live, my heart will belong to that vast and great country — the Soviet Union. There, people didn’t harm each other, didn’t have security windows nor did we have to lock our doors.
Tell me how things are now. Beasts, a pack of beasts! Killing each other, robbing each other! We didn’t have these things before! In the frontlines we had Croatians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, and Jews — all kinds of people.
We lived like that before, understand! Everybody ate from the same pot of rice, but now? We stab each other’s backs with knives! Why, why? Do you know? It’s because beastly Capitalism has brought us suffering and calamity.
This is beastly Capitalism. No one can stand in the way of the US dollar. Sons no longer take care of their parents. And mothers, because of money, do not look after their sons. Wives kill their husbands for money.
Look at what the people are all doing today. I just don’t understand. Our minds are becoming emptier with the passage of time. Believe me, this system of governance cannot last. Something bad will happen sooner or later.
I am a disabled veteran who fought in the great patriotic war, yet I have to live in public housing (the kind with shared bathroom, toilet and kitchen). Have you thought about this? That’s all I’ll say.
Anyway reminder that the idea of “totalitarianism” comes from certified bastard Hannah Arendt’s racist navel gazing about “oriental despotism” and is an utter sham designed to create an extremely insulting false equivalence between Nazi Germany and the USSR, the political project which made a world historic sacrifice to defeat fascism.