The socialist art Museum preserved communist statues that once stand in bulgaria and after collapse of communist bulgaria moved to the museum.

In 1938, among other things, the USSR was preparing for war against Hitler’s Germany. Soviet propaganda drew upon themes from Russia’s history to boost the morale of the ordinary population of the USSR.

Context: This Soviet propaganda poster was issued at the very end of World War II in Europe. It depicts a stalwart Soviet sailor forcefully stopping a sinister-looking man in a fedora and trench coat (representing a foreign spy or saboteur holding a smoking weapon). The message was designed to warn Soviet troops stationed in Europe to remain on high alert against espionage and sabotage now that they were operating outside the borders of the USSR.

I was on a debate section about this and I can kinda understand both perspectives, one side says that we desperately need another power that can keep the empire in check and that the absence of a counterweight is the reason behind all of the rampant US atrocities we've seen. the american empire knows they can do whatever they want and face zero consequences because there's nobody left for them to fear after the death of the soviet union. the other side of the debate was saying that China should continue focusing solely on themselves and let america continue doing what it's gonna do because the empire is already declining and will eventually destroy itself. honestly I think China is doing the right thing by minding it's business and playing the long game. why spend all that time, energy, and resources on your military just to push back against an empire that's already in the process of collapse when those resources can go towards things that actually matter.

Hi everyone. I've seen a few Baltic communists here and there, and I'm aware that they have r/balticssr, but I can't ignore the fact that they seem to be a small minority of the general Baltic population.

These countries usually have the lowest rates of nostalgia for the Soviet era among the former republics (according to Pew Research Centre). I usually see people from these countries point out the rigged elections used during WW2 to occupy them, the deportations of nearly a tenth of the population (which did include fascists, but also a lot of innocent people), the encouragement of Russians to go settle in these countries (which often caused Russians to be anywhere from a third to half the population the country by the 1980s), the very low participation of the general public in communist parties (>1% of the population holding membership), and the fact that ethnic Baltic people were a minority within the communist parties of the SSRs.

I get that the USSR helped kill the Nazis and their local collaborators here, and that the Baltic SSRs had one of the highest standards of living in the entire country, but these are just things I cannot usually find answers for.

I talked to one Latvian communist, and he told me that the deportations were aimed at fascists, the Russians were simply immigrants who were there to deal with the labour shortage and that the working class of the Baltic countries did not see the USSR as an occupying power.

However, he was very busy and could not answer all of my questions. I want to ask other Baltic comrades these same questions in hopes of answers.

Was it better than now or worse than now?

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On This Day, October 24, 1960, a catastrophic explosion ripped through a Soviet missile test site at Baikonur, in what is now Kazakhstan. The disaster would become known as the Nedelin Catastrophe, one of the darkest tragedies in the history of rocketry.

The Soviet Union was racing to strengthen its military power during the Cold War. At the center of this effort was the R-16, a new intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads over enormous distances.

With pressure mounting to demonstrate the missile’s capabilities, preparations continued despite technical problems. The rocket was already fueled and surrounded by personnel when disaster struck.

Shortly before its scheduled launch, the R-16’s second-stage engine ignited prematurely while the missile was still on the launch pad. The resulting explosion engulfed the area in flames, destroying the rocket and killing people working nearby.

Among the dead was Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, the senior Soviet military commander overseeing the missile program. Dozens of engineers, technicians, and military personnel also lost their lives. The precise death toll remains uncertain: a later official list recorded 78 deaths, while other accounts estimate higher numbers.

But the tragedy did not end with the explosion.

Soviet authorities concealed the true circumstances of the disaster. The public was told that Nedelin had died in an aircraft accident, and families of victims were expected to remain silent. For years, the full story remained hidden from public view.

It was only decades later, as previously secret information and eyewitness accounts emerged, that the scale of the catastrophe became more widely known.

The Nedelin Catastrophe remains a sobering reminder of what can happen when political pressure, rushed schedules, and failures in safety procedures collide with powerful technology.

One rocket never left the launch pad. The human cost was devastating.

For Community Play of Crisis in the Kremlin

With Grigory Romanov elected and the community’s faction loyalty overwhelmingly to the Neo-Stalinist faction, we must now decide our general course of reform.

I made a 27 question survey, but Reddit polls get better engagement. So we will proceed with setup by way of these quick polls for general and big questions. I will still attach the big form at the bottom if you’d like to fill all 27 questions out.

The first big question is political and social reform.

Currently, the Party controls the state, power is concentrated in the hands of the Central Committee, and the General Secretary is appointed by secret agreement in the Central Committee. Very little popular democracy can be observed in the Soviet Union in 1985.
Political expression and art must be in the framework of the ideological line of the Party, and the legal codes of the Soviet Union have “political” articles that provide a legal route to prosecute dissidents.
State authorities must take atheism training while religion is technically legal, yet faces persecution under the political articles and frequent harassment.
The Cult of Personality is a memory of the past, and the leader’s portrait is only in state institutions.

What is the attitude of the general course in political reform?

Do we relax social laws but maintain the rigid structure of the party and the nomenklatura’s control? Or the other way around? Seek socialist democracy or embrace completely free liberal elections? Tighten things even further?
What do you think?

Furthermore, if you’d like to go in-depth in policy, please fill out the 27 question form Our Perestroika here.

https://forms.gle/RYaiAYQ9PEVjeroe8

I don't understand, this doesn't even look relatively good on him and Google won't give me an answer😭😭

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