1991: The whole country is starving and looking for work – as all the Socialist Protection against exploitation is suddenly withdrawn! No one understands how
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1991: The whole country is starving and looking for work – as all the Socialist Protection against exploitation is suddenly withdrawn! No one understands how
As Gorbachev was dismantling the Soviet System from within – the Soviet people continued to pursue their daily lives as if the Socialism they enjoyed
In general, the combination of today’s ‘unusual’ cavalry soldier with this type of horse is very far, unfortunately, from the image that is desirable or associated with a ‘traditional’ cavalryman. Meanwhile, a ‘pike’ (or ‘lance’) is good only in the hands of an excellent rider, sitting on an excellent and well-trodden horse! History sufficiently proves (through a number of examples) that in the absence of these two vital attributes – the pike is only a burden that rushes into battle without finding any effective use for itself!
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)!
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