In 1985, there were still tens of thousands of Soviet Red Army Veterans alive who took part in the Fortieth Commemoration of the Soviet Victory
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A spontaneous movement of the people of Lugansk (in East Ukraine) against the neo-Nazi insurgency (sponsored by US President Barack Obama, the UK and the EU) that illegally occupied and overthrew the democratically elected government of West Ukraine in 2014!
In 1985, there were still tens of thousands of Soviet Red Army Veterans alive who took part in the Fortieth Commemoration of the Soviet Victory
The Hammer denotes the ‘Proletariat’ or the Industrialised Workers who work in factories – whilst the Sickle represents the ‘Agricultural’ Workers who work the land and participate in farming! Prior to this ‘1918’ design, older versions of this flag (sometimes seen in Eire), are comprised of a ‘Hammer’ (Proletariat) and a ‘Plough’ (Farmers)!
On this day, 77 years ago, the voice of Levitan informed the Soviet people about their Victory! https://t.me/history_prosto/50 77 лет назад голос Левитана известил советский
Whilst the West remembers May 8th as the day Nazi Germany Unconditionally Surrendered to the Western Allies – in Russia it is May 9th this
The Red Flag – or ‘Red Banner’ – was carried to the top of the Reichstag around the 30th of April (although exact dates vary
After the transition to capitalism in 1991, the standard of care throughout Russia dropped significantly, and the resurgence of religion opened-up the existing care-homes to exploitation by religious groups who offered to donate a chair or a table in return for general and unbridled access to the residents! It is common (on the modern Russian internet), for religious groups to link the economic deficiencies of the capitalist system to a general lack of belief in a sky-fairy (and the associated theology)! Such religionists insanely refer to the elderly residents as being ‘brought-up in a godless age’ and that this explains their ‘poverty’ and their habit of ‘sitting in the day-room and watching TV’! This is indicative of the evils associated with religion and exploitation such deluded systems inflict upon humanity in the name of a non-existent god-entity!