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@jwildeboer ...and they did it _again_ !! It was #Hungary who in 1989 opened their consulate doors to East Germans wanting to flee the regime, and the Hungarian consulate/embassy let them enter and cross into the west... that underpinned the "tear down that wall" momentum 👏✊ #PanEuropean #ironCurtain #freeEurope

@jwildeboer ...and they did it _again_ !! It was #Hungary who in 1989 opened their consulate doors to East Germans wanting to flee the regime, and the Hungarian consulate/embassy let them enter and cross into the west... that underpinned the "tear down that wall" momentum 👏✊ #PanEuropean #ironCurtain #freeEurope

@jwildeboer ...and they did it _again_ !! It was #Hungary who in 1989 opened their consulate doors to East Germans wanting to flee the regime, and the Hungarian consulate/embassy let them enter and cross into the west... that underpinned the "tear down that wall" momentum 👏✊ #PanEuropean #ironCurtain #freeEurope

@jwildeboer ...and they did it _again_ !! It was #Hungary who in 1989 opened their consulate doors to East Germans wanting to flee the regime, and the Hungarian consulate/embassy let them enter and cross into the west... that underpinned the "tear down that wall" momentum 👏✊ #PanEuropean #ironCurtain #freeEurope

@jwildeboer ...and they did it _again_ !! It was #Hungary who in 1989 opened their consulate doors to East Germans wanting to flee the regime, and the Hungarian consulate/embassy let them enter and cross into the west... that underpinned the "tear down that wall" momentum 👏✊ #PanEuropean #ironCurtain #freeEurope

"He had wild hair and wore jeans. He was #American and #Jewish. He had a #camera.

That was enough to trigger #surveillance by the notorious #secretpolice of #communist #Romania, the #Securitate.

Now, 41 years after #photojournalist #EdwardSerotta boldly stepped behind the #IronCurtain, we can see just how obsessed the #Romanians were with him, thanks to a short #documentary by renowned #Romanian #director #RaduJude and #historian #AdrianCioflâncă.

“Plan contraplan/Shot Reverse Shot,” which had its world premiere at the #Berlinale international #film festival last month, gives equal time to #Serotta’s reminiscences about Romania in the 1980s, and to the Securitate’s observations of him."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-891098

"He had wild hair and wore jeans. He was #American and #Jewish. He had a #camera.

That was enough to trigger #surveillance by the notorious #secretpolice of #communist #Romania, the #Securitate.

Now, 41 years after #photojournalist #EdwardSerotta boldly stepped behind the #IronCurtain, we can see just how obsessed the #Romanians were with him, thanks to a short #documentary by renowned #Romanian #director #RaduJude and #historian #AdrianCioflâncă.

“Plan contraplan/Shot Reverse Shot,” which had its world premiere at the #Berlinale international #film festival last month, gives equal time to #Serotta’s reminiscences about Romania in the 1980s, and to the Securitate’s observations of him."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-891098

"He had wild hair and wore jeans. He was #American and #Jewish. He had a #camera.

That was enough to trigger #surveillance by the notorious #secretpolice of #communist #Romania, the #Securitate.

Now, 41 years after #photojournalist #EdwardSerotta boldly stepped behind the #IronCurtain, we can see just how obsessed the #Romanians were with him, thanks to a short #documentary by renowned #Romanian #director #RaduJude and #historian #AdrianCioflâncă.

“Plan contraplan/Shot Reverse Shot,” which had its world premiere at the #Berlinale international #film festival last month, gives equal time to #Serotta’s reminiscences about Romania in the 1980s, and to the Securitate’s observations of him."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-891098

"He had wild hair and wore jeans. He was #American and #Jewish. He had a #camera.

That was enough to trigger #surveillance by the notorious #secretpolice of #communist #Romania, the #Securitate.

Now, 41 years after #photojournalist #EdwardSerotta boldly stepped behind the #IronCurtain, we can see just how obsessed the #Romanians were with him, thanks to a short #documentary by renowned #Romanian #director #RaduJude and #historian #AdrianCioflâncă.

“Plan contraplan/Shot Reverse Shot,” which had its world premiere at the #Berlinale international #film festival last month, gives equal time to #Serotta’s reminiscences about Romania in the 1980s, and to the Securitate’s observations of him."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-891098

"He had wild hair and wore jeans. He was #American and #Jewish. He had a #camera.

That was enough to trigger #surveillance by the notorious #secretpolice of #communist #Romania, the #Securitate.

Now, 41 years after #photojournalist #EdwardSerotta boldly stepped behind the #IronCurtain, we can see just how obsessed the #Romanians were with him, thanks to a short #documentary by renowned #Romanian #director #RaduJude and #historian #AdrianCioflâncă.

“Plan contraplan/Shot Reverse Shot,” which had its world premiere at the #Berlinale international #film festival last month, gives equal time to #Serotta’s reminiscences about Romania in the 1980s, and to the Securitate’s observations of him."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-891098

New open-source AI assistant IronCurtain adds a sandboxed control layer, letting LLMs run inside a virtual machine with strict security policies. No direct system access, yet full generative AI power. See how this approach could reshape secure AI deployments. #IronCurtain #OpenSourceAI #GenerativeAI #LLMSecurity

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/open-source-ai-assistant-ironcurtain-adds-control-layer-avoids-system

"Earlier on X, [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei said ..."

Normally I relish a bit of irony, but this is just painful.

But also, how can a country go for the #IronCurtain version of #DigitalSovereignty and not have the technical and political competence to #SelfHost a blog in order to make press releases? Can you imagine #Khrushchev or #Brezhnev using a US platform to make statements?

https://news.sky.com/story/iranian-rapper-describes-bodies-on-streets-left-as-a-warning-to-protesters-13495443

Ah yes, the riveting tale of a hockey player who fled the clutches of the Soviet Union to rescue a team in Detroit from irrelevance. 🏒🎩 Because nothing says "heroic escape" like swapping an iron curtain for a steel city! 🙄 #SportsDrama
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2026/01/12/sergei-fedorov-detroit-red-wings-russian-5/88035492007/ #SportsDrama #HockeyHero #SovietEscape #DetroitRescue #IronCurtain #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the riveting tale of a hockey player who fled the clutches of the Soviet Union to rescue a team in Detroit from irrelevance. 🏒🎩 Because nothing says "heroic escape" like swapping an iron curtain for a steel city! 🙄 #SportsDrama
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2026/01/12/sergei-fedorov-detroit-red-wings-russian-5/88035492007/ #SportsDrama #HockeyHero #SovietEscape #DetroitRescue #IronCurtain #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the riveting tale of a hockey player who fled the clutches of the Soviet Union to rescue a team in Detroit from irrelevance. 🏒🎩 Because nothing says "heroic escape" like swapping an iron curtain for a steel city! 🙄 #SportsDrama
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2026/01/12/sergei-fedorov-detroit-red-wings-russian-5/88035492007/ #SportsDrama #HockeyHero #SovietEscape #DetroitRescue #IronCurtain #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the riveting tale of a hockey player who fled the clutches of the Soviet Union to rescue a team in Detroit from irrelevance. 🏒🎩 Because nothing says "heroic escape" like swapping an iron curtain for a steel city! 🙄 #SportsDrama
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2026/01/12/sergei-fedorov-detroit-red-wings-russian-5/88035492007/ #SportsDrama #HockeyHero #SovietEscape #DetroitRescue #IronCurtain #HackerNews #ngated

Today is the 36th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall

May we build more bridges as we tear down the remaining walls. ✊

#BerlinWall #IronCurtain #BridgesNotWalls #OTD #OnThisDay

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/tuesday-october-7-2025/

A short history of eastern europe after the second world war.

#buretzart
#redarmy
#ironcurtain

@heidilifeldman
#USpol #TheBrownSpiderWeb
(1/n)

👉After a bit more than 100 days in office, #Fascism takes hold of the #USA 👈

In Fulton, #Missouri, on March 5, 1946, WWII #British PM #WinstonChurchill said in his famous speech, "...an "#IronCurtain" has descended across the continent."
Even though I had long expected it, it now shocks more that likewise, it might be said today, "A brown, all encompassing Brown Spiderweb is descending on a Nation that once was the Leader of the #FreeWorld...

From #CETI to #METI

…❛❛ In 1971, dozens of #astronomers & #astrophysicists convened in a conference room at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in #Armenia for the 1st joint #American & #Soviet conference on communicating with #ExtraterrestrialIntelligence. American & Soviet scientists had met independently to discuss the topic in the early 1960s ❜❜…

🔗 https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/extraterrestrial-languages_daniel-oberhaus/20885525/
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI

#Community #TimeTravel #Research #extraterrestrial #SETI #CarlSagan #ColdWar #IronCurtain

@GayDeceiver

I was on the other side of the #IronCurtain and never remember the #ToothFairy ever visiting a #Communist nation to give out money for teeth.

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BraveWords
IRON MAIDEN Reflect On Going Behind The Iron Curtain On Their 1984 World Slavery Tour - "It Wasn't A Political Act At All; It Was An Act To Go And Entertain Some Fans"

https://bravewords.com/news/iron-maiden-reflect-on-going-behind-the-iron-curtain-on-their-1984-world-slavery-tour-it-wasn-t-a-political-act-at-all-it-was-an-act-to-go-and-entertain-some-fans

#IronMaiden #HeavyMetal #WorldSlaveryTour #IronCurtain #BruceDickinson #RodSmallwood #SteveHarris

📢NEW BOOK ALERT!

🔖 Dive into the hidden layers of #ColdWar #childhoods with '(An)Archive', ed. by Mnemo ZIN.

🔓Unlock forgotten narratives, reshaping our understanding of #history & hinting at the futures it might have held.

What was it like growing up during the #ColdWar? What can #childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futures? These questions are at the heart of the '(An)Archive'. This edited collection stems from a collaboration between academics and artists who came together to collectively remember their own experiences of growing up on both sides of the ‘#IronCurtain’.

Looking beyond official #historicalarchives, the book gathers #memories that have been erased or forgotten, delegitimized or essentialized, or, at best, reinterpreted nostalgically within the dominant frameworks of the East-West divide.

Access at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0383

From an Easter expedition through the Bohemian Forest, a hilly and raw deserted forest zone on the border of the Czech Republic and Germany. A region where you can feel the atmosphere of the vanished and once vibrant Sudetenland, replaced for decades by the Iron Curtain with its barbed wire and minefields. A region that has lost people who have not yet returned.

#sudetenland #bikepacking #ceskyles #oberpfalzerwald #lost #ironcurtain

The #Philippines may forget #PeoplePower and #EDSA but #EasternEurope will not, especially #Poland where the #Polish people through trade unions like #Solidarity overthrew the #Soviet supported #dictatorship, which like ours was imposing a brutal #martiallaw. If not for #EDSA1, the peoples under the #IronCurtain / #EasternBloc will not have been able to oust their #communist regimes peacefully (for the most part). They will oust them all right; but there will be no inspiration to do it in a peaceful manner. The late 80s and 90s could've been bloody for all of Eastern Europe instead of being limited to a few.

There was even documentation IIRC of the #NationalDemocratic movement here in the Philippines providing support for the Polish resistance, despite the Philippine ND concept (different from the #NationalDemocracy of the Polish kind btw) being the brainchild of the #Communist Party of the Philippines. I don't remember where though, sadly. ​:satsuki_sadge:​

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #Pinoy #Filipino #EDSArevolution #politics #phpol

The #Philippines may forget #PeoplePower and #EDSA but #EasternEurope will not, especially #Poland where the #Polish people through trade unions like #Solidarity overthrew the #Soviet supported #dictatorship, which like ours was imposing a brutal #martiallaw. If not for #EDSA1, the peoples under the #IronCurtain / #EasternBloc will not have been able to oust their #communist regimes peacefully (for the most part). They will oust them all right; but there will be no inspiration to do it in a peaceful manner. The late 80s and 90s could've been bloody for all of Eastern Europe instead of being limited to a few.

There was even documentation IIRC of the #NationalDemocratic movement here in the Philippines providing support for the Polish resistance, despite the Philippine ND concept (different from the #NationalDemocracy of the Polish kind btw) being the brainchild of the #Communist Party of the Philippines. I don't remember where though, sadly. ​:satsuki_sadge:​

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #Pinoy #Filipino #EDSArevolution #politics #phpol

The #Philippines may forget #PeoplePower and #EDSA but #EasternEurope will not, especially #Poland where the #Polish people through trade unions like #Solidarity overthrew the #Soviet supported #dictatorship, which like ours was imposing a brutal #martiallaw. If not for #EDSA1, the peoples under the #IronCurtain / #EasternBloc will not have been able to oust their #communist regimes peacefully (for the most part). They will oust them all right; but there will be no inspiration to do it in a peaceful manner. The late 80s and 90s could've been bloody for all of Eastern Europe instead of being limited to a few.

There was even documentation IIRC of the #NationalDemocratic movement here in the Philippines providing support for the Polish resistance, despite the Philippine ND concept (different from the #NationalDemocracy of the Polish kind btw) being the brainchild of the #Communist Party of the Philippines. I don't remember where though, sadly. ​:satsuki_sadge:​

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #Pinoy #Filipino #EDSArevolution #politics #phpol

The #Philippines may forget #PeoplePower and #EDSA but #EasternEurope will not, especially #Poland where the #Polish people through trade unions like #Solidarity overthrew the #Soviet supported #dictatorship, which like ours was imposing a brutal #martiallaw. If not for #EDSA1, the peoples under the #IronCurtain / #EasternBloc will not have been able to oust their #communist regimes peacefully (for the most part). They will oust them all right; but there will be no inspiration to do it in a peaceful manner. The late 80s and 90s could've been bloody for all of Eastern Europe instead of being limited to a few.

There was even documentation IIRC of the #NationalDemocratic movement here in the Philippines providing support for the Polish resistance, despite the Philippine ND concept (different from the #NationalDemocracy of the Polish kind btw) being the brainchild of the #Communist Party of the Philippines. I don't remember where though, sadly. ​:satsuki_sadge:​

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #Pinoy #Filipino #EDSArevolution #politics #phpol

The #Philippines may forget #PeoplePower and #EDSA but #EasternEurope will not, especially #Poland where the #Polish people through trade unions like #Solidarity overthrew the #Soviet supported #dictatorship, which like ours was imposing a brutal #martiallaw. If not for #EDSA1, the peoples under the #IronCurtain / #EasternBloc will not have been able to oust their #communist regimes peacefully (for the most part). They will oust them all right; but there will be no inspiration to do it in a peaceful manner. The late 80s and 90s could've been bloody for all of Eastern Europe instead of being limited to a few.

There was even documentation IIRC of the #NationalDemocratic movement here in the Philippines providing support for the Polish resistance, despite the Philippine ND concept (different from the #NationalDemocracy of the Polish kind btw) being the brainchild of the #Communist Party of the Philippines. I don't remember where though, sadly. ​:satsuki_sadge:​

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #Pinoy #Filipino #EDSArevolution #politics #phpol

@cstross @ChrisMayLA6
Absolutely. With hindsight, the 80s was a very strange and quite terrifying time to be growing up. The #IronCurtain splitting Europe in two, frequent footage of #CheckpointCharlie and nuclear missile launchers on tv news. On the outside of the local municipal swimming pool(!), a sign showing #fallout circles rippling out from #Faslane, to remind you just how dead you would be if/when it was targeted. ☢️

On the other hand, we got #99LuftBallons… 🥰

@Ulrich_the_Elder

(1/2)

Regarding the "old style" #socialism, it has failed in all countries behind the #IronCurtain, even in #EasternGermany:

https://www.geschichte-abitur.de/lexikon/uebersicht-deutsche-teilung/aufbau-des-sozialismus-ddr

And the remaining systems in #NorthKorea are either externally subsidized (#China), or have embraced capitalism to finance its extravaganza, causing wide-spread #nepotism and corruption, so that the autocrat #Xi could come to power on a "clean-up-the-swamp" platform.

Without the capitalist #GreenRevolution, modern society...

Iron Curtain - Metal Gladiator (Metal Gladiator 2023)

https://youtu.be/dOqtXkDiOPw

#music #metal #thrashmetal #ironcurtain #dyingvictimsproductions

@publicvoit @boss @calbasi

I wonder why #Russia is the new #Nazi country and not the one who has invaded more countries the last 60 years 🤔 (yes, our #metropolis, the #USA)

I think we are too #Westerncentric 😉

I'm #Catalan, and I don't fear about a #Russian invasion. Are really #Austrian fearing about it?? Then, please, switch off the TV 😋

In fact, I'm angry with #russofobia

Why my children should fight against #Russians or #Chinesse? Just because our #misinformation #media have convinced us that they are the evil? (remember, we are the goods; #Iraq, #Afganistan, #Yemen, etc.? They don't matter!! 😉 ).

Ps: about #tortured children: it is probably a fake. There are plenty of them ;-) But what matters is that you are ONLY interested in Russian tortures, and not in USA or #Ukraine tortures (more than 400,000 #Yemenis killed, etc): you are not saying about isolate #USA with a #ironCurtain. Why? 🤔

@publicvoit @boss @calbasi

I wonder why #Russia is the new #Nazi country and not the one who has invaded more countries the last 60 years 🤔 (yes, our #metropolis, the #USA)

I think we are too #Westerncentric 😉

I'm #Catalan, and I don't fear about a #Russian invasion. Are really #Austrian fearing about it?? Then, please, switch off the TV 😋

In fact, I'm angry with #russofobia

Why my children should fight against #Russians or #Chinesse? Just because our #misinformation #media have convinced us that they are the evil? (remember, we are the goods; #Iraq, #Afganistan, #Yemen, etc.? They don't matter!! 😉 ).

Ps: about #tortured children: it is probably a fake. There are plenty of them ;-) But what matters is that you are ONLY interested in Russian tortures, and not in USA or #Ukraine tortures (more than 400,000 #Yemenis killed, etc): you are not saying about isolate #USA with a #ironCurtain. Why? 🤔

TTL And CMOS Logic ICs: The Building Blocks Of A Revolution - When starting a new electronics project today, one of the first things that we ten... - https://hackaday.com/2021/12/06/ttl-and-cmos-logic-ics-the-building-blocks-of-a-revolution/ #originalart #ironcurtain #micrologic #featured #logicics #history