#ussr racism

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

#mariam naiem #ussr racism #etnic cleasing #genocide #deportation #crimean tatars #north caucasians #chechens #kalmiks #koreans #ingush #uzbek #soviet racism #bigotry #ukraine resistance #stop russian invasion #putin war criminal #stop putin #defend ukraine #putin war ukraine russia #help ukraine #ukraine war #stop putin's agents usa #stop putin allies

[degeneratedworker]

"They violate human rights!" Soviet Union 1977

#propaganda #poster #vintage #imperialism #capitalism #communism #socialism #anti american #america #pinochet #coup #soviet union #russia #ussr #us #racism #cia #somoza #latin america #human rights

[magnetothemagnificent]

Goyische leftists will bend over backwards to try and romanticize and defend the USSR and I am absolutely over it.

Do you know how many Jews suffered and died under the USSR? Do you know how many Indigenous groups were oppressed? Are we just going to fucking ignore the fact that USSR was an imperial, colonial power because you think the aesthetics are "cool"??

You post "reblog to punch Nazis" because you're so willfully ignorant and view the world in such a skewed, ahistorical light that you think the Soviets were flawless simply because they fought the Nazis. Did you know that the Soviets were originally allied with the Nazis? That they didn't fucking care about the Nazis' racist eugenicist genocidal policies, and the only reason they broke their alliance is because *they* wanted to conquer Poland?? Did you know that after the Holocaust, the Soviets pushed the narrative that the Soviets were "liberators" to hide the fact that they were putting Jews and other racial and political minorities into their own concentration camps???

But no, I guess you just *have* to stick with your Soviet aesthetics and literally dress up like Soviet dictators..... because of course that makes sense for a so-called "anti-racist, anti-colonial leftist" to do. Fuck off.

#this is why I don't trust leftist goyim #antisemitism #racism #nazis #Holocaust #soviet antisemitism #history #leftist antisemitism #ussr

[420pogpills]

next week is pancake day/shrove tuesday and today i want to take a moment to educate everyone on the absolute insanity that takes place in lithuania on this day

in lithuania shrove tuesday is called 'užgavėnės' and it's a folk festival where everyone dresses up as devils, witches, goats, wolves and other animals, or even the grim reaper

we burn a giant effigy named 'morė' and some of them are the size of a normal bonfire and some of them are the size of a watchtower (and sometimes they are hilarious-looking)

there's folk music and dancing and lots of stalls selling snacks and souvenirs and this festival is very symbolic because it's to celebrate the defeat of winter and welcome in the spring

and any kid who grew up in lithuania will tell you it's an absolute ball

#lithuania #uzgavenes #shrove tuesday #pancake day #now disclaimer #i will not deny there are also quite a few problematic behaviours #that take place during this festival #namely in regards to the costumes people wear #i have seen a lot of very inappropriate and insensitive ones #unfortunately lithuania still has a very long way to go in terms of overcoming racism and bigotry #a lot of it sadly just comes from a place of pure ignorance rather than malice #but although i am a proud lithuanian #i definitely know we are far from perfect #i've lost count of how many arguments i've had with people back home #who try to defend their behaviour but i have none of it #but i do my best. #it's a very generational issue what i fully blame the former USSR for #but that's a history lesson for another day #not mcyt

[quotesfrommyreading]

Understanding how and why the Nazis came to power is as important today as it ever was, perhaps, as memory fades, even more so. We need to get into the minds of the Nazis themselves. We need to discover why their opponents failed to stop them. We need to grasp the nature and operation of the Nazi dictatorship once it was established. We need to figure out the processes through which the Third Reich plunged Europe and the world into a war of unparalleled ferocity that ended its own cataclysmic collapse. There were other catastrophes in the first half of the twentieth century, most notably, perhaps, the reign of terror unleashed by Stalin in Russia during the 1930s. But none has had such a profound or lasting effect. From its enthronement of racial discrimination and hatred at the centre of its ideology to its launching of a ruthless and destructive war of conquest, the Third Reich has burned itself onto the modern world's consciousness as no other regime, perhaps fortunately, has ever managed to do. The story of how Germany, a stable and modern country, in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair is a story that has sobering lessons for us all.

 —  The Coming of the Third Reich (Richard J. Evans)

#richard j. evans #the coming of the third reich #history #military history #totalitarianism #fascism #nazism #antisemitism #racism #politics #warfare #germany #nazi germany #ussr

[ben-the-hyena]

I had a dream in which there was new discourse about the Soviet Treasure Island movie and this time it was a post saying Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver were antisemitic caricatures. And knowing the state of fandoms these days it's only now that I realize it was just a dream

#lol #moi #dreams #fandom #them bastards ! #antisemites #racism #jim hawkins #long john silver #treasure island #USSR #post #tumblr #movie

[longbellybutton]

waves of racism

ussr 1968

#propaganda poster #propaganda #ussr #60s #soviet union #usa #united states #poster #racism

[a-modern-major-general]

For nearly the entirety of the past decade, a question has stalked, and sometimes consumed, American politics: Why do Donald Trump and his acolytes heap such reverent praise on Vladimir Putin? The question is born of disbelief. Adoration of the Russian leader, who murders his domestic opponents, kidnaps thousands of Ukrainian children, and interferes in American presidential elections, is so hard to comprehend that it seems only plausibly explained by venal motives—thus the search to find the supposed kompromat the Kremlin lords over Trump or compromising business deals that Trump has pursued in Moscow.

But there’s a deeper, more nefarious truth about people on the right’s baffling unwillingness to criticize the Kremlin: They actually share its worldview. Putin worship isn’t even an aberration in the history of conservatism, merely the latest instance of a long tradition of admiring foreign dictators. Over the past century, without ever really blushing, the American right has similarly celebrated the likes of Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, and just about every Latin American military junta that called itself anti-communist.

The right hails these dictators as ideological comrades in the war to preserve traditional society, the values of order and patriarchy, against the assault of the decadent left. Unlike conservative politicians in the United States, these foreign leaders don’t even need to bother with mouthing encomiums to concepts like tolerance, freedom and democracy. They can deliver reactionary politics in the unvarnished form that some hardliners on the American right have always hoped would take root in their own country. As the journalist Jacob Heilbrunn argues in America Last, his history of conservatives’ romance with dictators, “Conservatives have searched for a paradise abroad that can serve as a model at home.”

#history #current events #politics #american politics #russian politics #authoritarianism #fascism #racism #antisemitism #ww1 #ww2 #holocaust #russo-ukrainian war #2022 russian invasion of ukraine #usa #ussr #russia #donald trump #vladimir putin

[tiixij]

now I know this book is from 1980 but I'd like it if I didn't have to read the r slur while reading a textbook for class.

#It's honestly a bad book. Probably an example of ''only got published because it's by a Russian who didn't like the ussr'' #Like I don't think it was edited properly. Also there's the racism. Genuinely it's bad. #And it tells me nothing about what regular people were experiencing which is what I actually want to learn about.. #Like yeah tell me what was going on with the royalty but tell me how they effected regular people too!!!!!

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

Nuclear Shades of Red Racism - Inkstick

#nuclear sheds of red racism #soviet racism #ussr racism #racial hierarchy soviet union #russian imperialism #mariana budjeryn #toghzan kassenova #ukraine resistance #stop russian invasion #putin war criminal #stop putin #defend ukraine #putin war ukraine russia #help ukraine #ukraine war #stop putin's agents usa #stop putin allies

[degeneratedworker]

"No to racism" Soviet Union 1972

#propaganda #poster #vintage #imperialism #capitalism #communism #socialism #soviet #ussr #soviet union #racism #kkk #klu klux klan

[nothorses]

"the public education system is intently evil and all teachers are abusive because it was the worst experience ever for me personally"

guys, look, I'm legitimately sorry that happened to you. that's fucked up. it shouldn't have happened, and it shouldn't be allowed to happen again to you or anyone else. I'm sorry.

public school was hard for me too, at times, and I'm still suffering the consequences for the harsh grading, the arbitrary deadlines, the hours of completely useless-to-me homework. I could name a few teachers who have been pretty fucking terrible. the fact that nobody considered getting me evaluated for ADHD has had an impact on my self image and academic success that I can't erase.

and also.

I grew up in an area where education, in particular, is incredibly progressive-leaning. educators are working really hard to create and try out education philosophies and practices that prioritize kids and their learning, rather than teachers and what they think kids should learn.

My sex ed was comprehensive, and came entirely from school. My gay sixth grade teacher taught me about HIV/AIDs in a useful, accurate way. In high school, I learned about the way orgasms work & I was prepared not to feel shame for normal stuff.

I learned that Communism was not what the USSR actually practiced, and what it really means. I learned about atrocities and, specifically, the genocide of indigenous people committed in/by the US. I learned about the military industrial complex, the school-to-prison pipeline, and I learned about manifestations of racism specific to my local area. I learned about Stonewall, and the intersection of the civil rights movement with gay rights and disability justice.

My creative writing teacher taught us about LSD, and the real reasons we shouldn't do it, after a hilariously ineffective assembly run by some local cops. He spoke gently, carefully, and emphatically about his friends and his own experiences. Later in the semester, he read us a story he wrote about two gay men finding each other in a deeply homophobic environment.

My sci-fi teacher made me feel safe & seen as a kid with "weird" interests. My US History teacher helped me research and put together a 10-page paper on the modern relevance and mission of Feminism. My government teacher made me feel appreciated for the work I put into the class, and the thought I put into what I said in it, even though he disagreed with a lot of it. My sixth grade teacher bought me books to read with his personal money, whichever ones I asked for. My third grade teacher made me feel safe. My science teacher in middle school made me excited for and passionate about science, and saw and nurtured the effort I put into her class.

A lot of stuff sucks, absolutely. But I am seeing new teaching methods being tried out all the time, and I am watching teachers get really excited when I teach their students about the roots of modern graffiti in US black history & to question property laws, and just...

There's hope. there are so many people doing so much work to make things better. so many people agree with you on what education should be, and are trying so fucking hard to put that into action, and so many public schools- not just teachers, but whole schools and even districts- are really doing that work. so much is getting better.

I had more to say, about necessary childcare and trusted adults and outside contacts and time away from abusive family. But like. Please just sit down and listen to more people on this, and please talk to educators and education professionals about what's really going on in this big huge world of philosophy, science, and practice.

#education

[yourtongzhihazel]

thoughts on anarchism?

The anarchists I've met IRL, especially while organizing, have been some of the most wonderful comrades and I wouldn't hesitate to work with them again. I'm sure there's many online too who're just like them. I do admire how quickly they are willing to use direct action, even if it's not the best tactic to be used or the only means to an end. Some anarchist ideas, while not necessarily achievable on a large scale, are certainly is very helpful for short term, small scale survival, like mutual aid for example.

Anarchism as an ideology though, I do have strong disagreements with. When I was first dipping my toes into studying political-economy, I had a very brief time where I was following both anarchist and marxist accounts and forums. And often, when I asked the marxists a question about how things would or potentially could work, they could point to real examples as much as they could theoretical ones, and they could point out the pros and cons of their own systems. But when I asked anarchists similar questions, there was generally a kind of hesitancy or wishy-washiness or vagueness which I really didn't get from the marxists. As a poc, I remember a black man had asked anarchists what the solution to a group of racist factory workers voting him out of their work force was and no one had any answers beyond, "well at that stage you really wouldn't expect racism on that level". But the marxists would say racism is a social ill that takes time to combat, even after the revolution thus the proletarian state exists to ensure cases like that are investigated and corrected. A more poignant example would be like the Chinese trans woman who sued her former place of work for firing her for being trans and the state sided with and supported her rights. In some ways, I think I was always inevitably going to go down the marxist route given my family background, but that's not to say I didn't give anarchism a fair shot in the beginning.

More theoretically, the roots of anarchism has always been deeply entwined with petite bourgeois ideology. Similar to liberalism, it supposes that the liberation of the collective comes from the liberation of the self. That's not to say anarchists are liberals (well, actual anarchists anyway), but rather, has been influenced by a deeply individualistic ideology like liberalism. The reason we marxists tend to call anarchists idealists can mainly stem from our biggest disagreement, which is the utilization of the state. It's unreasonable to destroy the greatest tool a class has in the class war once that class gets its hands on it, especially since the bourgeoisie have no qualms about using it as a bludgeon against the proletariat. The state has always been used as a mediator for class warfare and whichever class controls it controls the arbitration on class conflict. Like it or not, revolution, just like the construction of socialism, will come at different times with different arising conditions for every country. It's simply not enough to rely on hopes of either a total revolution or to defend your own revolution without the tools provided by a state. After the October Revolution, the nascent USSR was invaded by over 20 foreign countries and they threw them all out. During the second world war, more than 4 million fascists were killed on the eastern front and the Red Army marched into Berlin in the end. Both feats would be impossible without strong state apparatuses. There's more to it than just this, of course. If you want, you can read a (admittedly, pretty scathing) critique by J.V. Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?, for some more detailed information.

My last point is that in many online spaces, there's no doubt a big overlap between radlibs and anarchism or at the very least, anarchist aesthetics. I can't tell you how many times I've been called some slur or 'tankie' or some variation of the two by someone presenting themselves to be anarchist who then turn around and say the most unbelievably liberal talking points. I've now come to realize that the reason for this overlap is two-fold. The first is that in liberal democracies, where individualism is extremely strong and thus anarchism, as a more individualistic ideology, appeals more to radlibs. The second is that anarchism is very easily marketable, even more so than marxism. These two kind of go hand-in-hand as well.

In the west and usamerica in particular, we don't have much of a choice in regards to who we side with and I would actually take an anarchist comrade over the "queering the MIC" libs in the DSA or whatever. I'll still jest about about anarchism tho.

#hazel's press releases

[matan4il]

"That means that if the UN correctly represents the global population, about 1 in every 4 of its members, is antisemitic" i...hadn't actually considered that. a representative body of a world that hates jews isn't going to be fair to jews now is it

Hi Nonnie!

Absolutely it would not be.

I'm glad I can point that out. Just to repeat, a global survey by the ADL found that 26% of adults worldwide (slightly more than 1 in every 4 adult humans) responded in the affirmative to at least 6 out of 11 antisemitic statements. TBH, I think it's very possible that this is an underestimate (it's easy to only respond affirmatively to the more "socially acceptable" statements, like "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own country" and stay below the minimal 6 out of 11 statements required on this survey to be labeled an antisemite), but it's still the best measure we have, and it's probably very telling that it could be that easy to be antisemitic, but not be defined as such in this poll, yet 26% of all people surveyed were still classified that way.

Regarding the UN, we can talk about the fact that it has never excluded Iran, a country that officially denies the Holocaust, and has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel, the biggest Jewish community in the world today.

We can talk about its long history of treating anything in which Israel is involved, as if it causes much graver harm than any other global crime, which means it belittles countless atrocities, ignores crimes committed against Israelis, while also blowing out of proportion anything that can be weaponized against the one Jewish state. This pattern of discrimination against the only Jewish state in the world, in a way that's inconsistent with how every other country is treated, reveals an antisemitic bias. In fact, even some of the UN's heads have acknowledged that Israel was treated unfairly there.

We could talk about the UN's 1975 resolution that "Zionism is racism" (UNGA resolution 3379, which was eventually canceled in 1991 by UNGA resolution 46/86). Because the term 'Zionism' has been distorted by so many Israel and Jew haters, let's be clear: Zionism simply means accepting the Jewish right to self determination, meaning that Jews, just like every other nation out there, have the right to self rule in the Jewish ancestral homeland. From 1975 until 1991, for 16 full years, the UN actually said out loud that it's not racist for the Irish to want an independent Irish state, it's not racist for the Germans to want an independent German state, it's not racist for the Japanese to want an independent Japanese state, it's not racist for the Sudanese to want an independent Sudanese state, it's not racist for the Kurds to want an independent Kurdish state, it's not racist for the Indians to want an independent Indian state, but it is racist for the Jews to want an independent Jewish state. This resolution, denying the Jews their right to self determination, coming from an institute that supports and recognizes the universal right to self determination for every other nation, is discriminatory against Jews. It is antisemitic. Let that sink in, that the UN did not hesitate in passing an openly antisemitic resolution, and it took them no less than 16 years to wipe this stain from the UN's record.

BTW, resolution 3379 was sponsored by the members of the Arab League and several Muslim majority countries (25 sponsor countries in total). So, the starting point was a ratio of 25 Israel hating countries to 1 Jewish state. It was then further supported by countries that were aligned with the Soviet Bloc (most of which were dictatorships with no human rights, and not caring at all about fighting racism of any kind), because during the years of the cold war, Israel was a part of the democratic west, while the USSR supported the Arab League. This anti-west, anti-democracy axis still exists to a great degree (with some changes regarding which country is aligned with which side), and is probably even more relevant today than 12 years ago, as recent events in the Middle East show. Lastly, the resolution was supported by additional anti-democracy countries. What chance do the Jews have at the UN? We are outnumbered at this organization, that applies no penalties or limitations for non-democratic or antisemitic countries. It's an example of how treating anti-democratic countries democratically is just a reward for the enemies of democracy.

And in continuation to all that, the UN has also repeatedly created bodies dedicated solely to Palestinians, their needs and rights. Again, it implies they must be treated worse than every other nation, if they get special treatment. But you're not gonna find the Palestinians on any list of the deadliest conflicts in history, or even just since WWII, or even just currently active...

Even if we were to accept every grievance the Palestinians make at face value (maybe other than Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' antisemitic and Holocaust distorting statement that "Israel has committed 50 Holocausts"), then it's still nowhere near many other atrocities. So WHY are the Palestinians being treated differently? There's only one thing that stands out about their grievances, and that is that they can be used to harm the only Jewish state in the world, which protects all Jews, and is home to the biggest Jewish community we have today. To use a Hebrew phrase, it's not done out of the love of Haman, it's done out of the hatred of Mordecai.

I hope this expansion on the way the UN's structure makes it inherently prone to antisemitic abuse of Israel helped a bit. I also hope you're well! xoxox

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

#resources #israel #antisemitism #israeli #israel news #israel under attack #israel under fire #terrorism #anti terrorism #hamas #antisemitic #antisemites #jews #jew #judaism #jumblr #frumblr #jewish #ask #anon ask

[tikkunolamresistance]

I am a little confused as how you reconcile being jewish while also being communist ? You also engage in Torah study so its not like you are non practicing. Could you explain please?

Hi!

Communism is the belief in community. It’s the belief in upholding one another, dismantling the Capitalist system at the core of all forms of oppression. Communism is about liberation from the chains that hold us in place, from social inequality, from racist ideology. Communism is the antithesis of everything that Capitalism promotes, and yet the most common (mis)understanding of Communism is that it’s somehow oppressive? The ideology itself is the opposition of oppression. The belief in Communism is the belief in better for humanity, the belief in that we can help one another and not fall for sepratist tactics that the hegemony promotes through war, displacement and weaponising religion. More so, communism is about housing people, achieving an excellent cost of living by having food and resources for everybody. There will be no child labour, there will be no underpaid workers in the Global South making cheap product that serves no purpose other than consumerism. Communism is recognising that idolatry, consumerism, selfishness, exploitation, mass poverty and so much more is disabling us.

Communism is the end goal, it’s the ideal for humanity. To be truly liberated from the system that places financial value on every head.

A world without racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism, inaffordable housing, underpaid labour, exploitation, modern slavery. A world where nobody is displaced, nobody fears for their life.

To us, communism is a no-brainer as Jews. The complete healing of the world, Tikkun Olam, is only achievable by the antithesis of Capitalism. There is no liberation under a system that feeds off of oppression.

You probably think “Communism is bad!! Look at the USSR” but fail to understand that, would the antithesis of the predominant economic system that favours the 1% be deemed as good in any way? Would the alternative that favours the poor, the working class, the oppressed, be presented as good in any way, shape or form?

#free palestine #palestine #anti capitalism #anti imperialism #communism #revolutionary thinkers need to let go of the red scare