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  1. "Wind of Change" is a song by German rock band #Scorpions, recorded for their 11th studio album, #CrazyWorld (1990). A #powerBallad, it was composed and written by the band's lead singer, #KlausMeine, and produced by #KeithOlsen and the band. The lyrics were composed by Meine following the band's visit to the #SovietUnion at the height of #perestroika, when the enmity between the communist.
    youtube.com/watch?v=XjFsZj1aHow

  2. "Wind of Change" is a song by German rock band #Scorpions, recorded for their 11th studio album, #CrazyWorld (1990). A #powerBallad, it was composed and written by the band's lead singer, #KlausMeine, and produced by #KeithOlsen and the band. The lyrics were composed by Meine following the band's visit to the #SovietUnion at the height of #perestroika, when the enmity between the communist.
    youtube.com/watch?v=XjFsZj1aHow

  3. About a hundred years ago, this is what "left" looked like through the Overton window. It didn't work at its extreme, but neither does the extreme right.

    airwhale.com/propaganda/

    #Illustration #LeftWing #SovietUnion #Propaganda #VectorArt

  4. About a hundred years ago, this is what "left" looked like through the Overton window. It didn't work at its extreme, but neither does the extreme right.

    airwhale.com/propaganda/

    #Illustration #LeftWing #SovietUnion #Propaganda #VectorArt

  5. "The accusation that #Jews can never truly belong to the countries they call home is one of the oldest #antisemitic #tropes in history. In #Spain Jews were forced to convert to #Catholicism or face expulsion; in #France they were asked to #assimilate by practising their #Judaism in private; and in the #SovietUnion Jews were pressured to abandon religious practice and suppress expressions of #Jewish identity.

    No matter how long the Jewish community contributed to a society, we were always suspected of serving someone else.

    Time has passed and the language has changed but the accusation has not. For the past three years, I have seen this rhetoric become normalised. #Online forums and comment sections have become a cesspool of antisemitic abuse.

    Add to that a layer of #misogyny and violent sexualised comments directed at my partner, and even harm wished upon our newborn baby."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  6. "The accusation that #Jews can never truly belong to the countries they call home is one of the oldest #antisemitic #tropes in history. In #Spain Jews were forced to convert to #Catholicism or face expulsion; in #France they were asked to #assimilate by practising their #Judaism in private; and in the #SovietUnion Jews were pressured to abandon religious practice and suppress expressions of #Jewish identity.

    No matter how long the Jewish community contributed to a society, we were always suspected of serving someone else.

    Time has passed and the language has changed but the accusation has not. For the past three years, I have seen this rhetoric become normalised. #Online forums and comment sections have become a cesspool of antisemitic abuse.

    Add to that a layer of #misogyny and violent sexualised comments directed at my partner, and even harm wished upon our newborn baby."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  7. "Abdul Ahad Momand, #Afghanistan’s first #cosmonaut, passed away on Sunday after battling cancer.

    Momand was the first Afghan and the fourth Muslim in history to travel to #space. In 1988, he spent nine days aboard the #SovietUnion’s Mir space station."

    tolonews.com/afghanistan-199742

  8. "Abdul Ahad Momand, #Afghanistan’s first #cosmonaut, passed away on Sunday after battling cancer.

    Momand was the first Afghan and the fourth Muslim in history to travel to #space. In 1988, he spent nine days aboard the #SovietUnion’s Mir space station."

    tolonews.com/afghanistan-199742

  9. "Like so many times throughout #Jewishhistory, a thriving #Jewish center may slowly fade, not because of a single event, but because political decisions, ideological extremism, and a growing sense of insecurity convince people that their future lies elsewhere.

    Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that this feels painfully familiar. Throughout history, #Jews have often discovered too late that the political movements they believed would protect them had turned against them. After the #FrenchRevolution, a movement built on the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity failed to eradicate #antisemitism, which soon found new political expressions. In the #SovietUnion, many #Jews initially embraced the revolutionary promise of equality, only to become targets of suspicion, repression, and state-sponsored antisemitism.

    I fear we are witnessing a similar pattern[...]"

    blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-en

  10. "Like so many times throughout #Jewishhistory, a thriving #Jewish center may slowly fade, not because of a single event, but because political decisions, ideological extremism, and a growing sense of insecurity convince people that their future lies elsewhere.

    Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that this feels painfully familiar. Throughout history, #Jews have often discovered too late that the political movements they believed would protect them had turned against them. After the #FrenchRevolution, a movement built on the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity failed to eradicate #antisemitism, which soon found new political expressions. In the #SovietUnion, many #Jews initially embraced the revolutionary promise of equality, only to become targets of suspicion, repression, and state-sponsored antisemitism.

    I fear we are witnessing a similar pattern[...]"

    blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-en

  11. "Wow, it's amazing how many counterrevolutionary traitors helped the revolution!"

  12. Trotsky as a theorist is okay. Trotsky as a political/military leader? Well...

  13. Autonomies: **Two Prosecutors: A film by Sergei Loznitsa**

    autonomies.org/2026/06/two-pro

    From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026) At the start of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film, Two Prosecutors (2025), two NKVD Chekists – torturers working in a “special detention” centre – exchange a joke that makes them laugh heartily. The prison commander tells … Continue reading →

    #Film #SergeiLoznitsa #SovietUnion #Stateterror

  14. Autonomies: **Two Prosecutors: A film by Sergei Loznitsa**

    autonomies.org/2026/06/two-pro

    From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026) At the start of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film, Two Prosecutors (2025), two NKVD Chekists – torturers working in a “special detention” centre – exchange a joke that makes them laugh heartily. The prison commander tells … Continue reading →

    #Film #SergeiLoznitsa #SovietUnion #Stateterror