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UK: Qingming (清明) [2025] – “Sweeping & Cleaning the Grave” of the Chinese Ancestors! (5.4.2025)

05/04/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

At both times of the year the graves are repaired and made new – whilst one or two of the favourite things are provided – such as a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Some Chinese families – although not ours – make paper clothing which is burnt at the graveside in Autumn – alongside “Spirit Money” – or pretend banknotes, etc. Others take real food which is placed on a table in hygienic containers – offered as an oblation – and consumed later. Our two daughters used clothes and cleaning sprays to remove the dirt and shine the stone exterior of the graves. The bright flowers are then cut to fit into the holders. We often bring a flag of China and Buddhist pictures and statues. Today, I also carried a Ch’an Dao Martial Arts Association badge and a pair of Nunchaku. We lit six incense-sticks – three for each grave – and bowed-down three-tips (clapping the hands three-times). We have been performing these rituals since the early 1990s in the UK.

USSR: Stalin’s [1953] Funeral – Greatest of the 20th Century – and the Resulting Stampede! (27.2.2025)

27/02/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

Since the recent détente of the US and modern Russia – the Russian-language Yandex search-engine has once again become easily available via the Western internet. Since I last regularly accessed the “deep” Russian internet – I have noticed that whereas there was about a 50%-50% distribution of pro and anti Stalin articles – a new narrative has been ordered which portrays Stalin as a mass killer who also achieved one or two great achievements for the Russian people (the new orientation is roughly 25& pro and 75% anti). This is a Western (capitalist), reactionary, Trotskyite, and entirely fascist attitude. Furthermore, it is pseudo-history. Joseph Stalin was working-class (most old Bolsheviks were middle-class) and was Georgian – not Russian (Stalin rejected all forms of nationalism – including Russian). The Soviet Union was a collective of around 15 or 16 countries (depending on era) that acted in Socialist collaboration. The history of the Soviet Union is not the history of Russia – even if Russia was the socio-economic driving force. The point of the 1917 Revolution was a new era in human evolution – a step forward and away from feudalism and capitalism.

UK: My “Grover Furr” [Soviet History] Collection to Date! (23.2.2025)

23/02/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

Be that as it may, I have learned from scholars such as EH Carr, Alexander Werth, and Grover Furr what the facts are about the history and purpose of the Soviet Union. Just as the lies are complex and involved – the scholarship that exposes the lies is diverse and engaging. Everything must be correctly re-examined, deconstructed, and re-constructed back into its proper context. These eleven Grover Furr titles are a work in progress. Think for yourself and never stop learning.

Venezuela Stalingrad Plaque - 80th Anniversary

Venezuela: 80th Anniversary – Victory of Stalingrad Remembered! (9.2.2025)

09/02/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

In the year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, together with our Venezuelan friends from Valencia, we pay tribute to the heroes who fought for the freedom of the world against the threat of fascism. We are glad that, thanks to the friendship between Volgograd and Valencia, this significant plaque has been installed, allowing the inhabitants of the city to pay tribute to the heroism of the defenders of freedom.

Russia: 81th Anniversary of the Liberation of Leningrad from Nazi German & Finnish Tyranny! (27.1.2025)

27/01/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

At the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery of St Petersburg (Leningrad), the President laid a wreath at the Motherland monument to honour the memory of the fallen Leningrad residents and defenders.

At least 420,000 civilians of Leningrad who died from starvation, cold, and disease, or in air-raids, as well as 70,000 soldiers are buried in the cemetery’s 186 communal graves and 6,000 individual military graves.

The memorial wall behind the Motherland monument carries the words by poet Olga Bergholz: “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.”

DPRK: Passing of Chairman Kim Jong Il – 13th Anniversary Marked! (31.12.2024)

31/12/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

Messages and letters also came from the director of the International Department of the Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia, the international secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People of Spain, the vice-chairman of the Socialist Freedom Party of Egypt, the secretary for International Relations of the Brazilian Communist Party, the co-chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, the director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, the secretary general of the African Regional Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea and other high-ranking personages of political, social and economic circles in China, Russia, Nepal, Myanmar, Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan, Palestine, Iran, Indonesia, India, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Switzerland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Finland, Croatia, Poland, Serbia, Britain, Austria, Italy, Spain, Nigeria, South Africa, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile and Ecuador and the organizations for the study of the Juche idea and representatives of the international bodies here.

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