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¿Por qué Churchill y Stalin invadieron Irán pese a su neutralidad? #Iran #Irán #SegundaGuerraMundial #Churchill #Stalin #Historia #HistoriaContemporanea #UnionSovietica #ReinoUnido #Geopolitica #25deagosto #felizmartes #Efemerides #Pahlavi #CorredorPersa

https://donporque.com/reino-unido-y-la-union-sovietica-invadieron-iran/

Thursday, July 30, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/thursday-july-30-2026/

Tallest ‘Stalinist’ Skyscrapers of the former Soviet Bloc

Identified below by order of height are “Stalinist” empire style skyscrapers that were built in the former Soviet Union. and its satellite nations. Most of these were begun in the late 1940s and 1950s, while Joseph Stalin was still alive, though one, Triumph Palace, represents a rebirth of the Stalinism style from the early 2000s.

The skyscrapers with an asterisk (*) before them are the famous Seven Sisters of Stalin’s Empire Style Architecture built in Moscow. Two others were planned, but never built, including what would have been the tallest building in the world at the time – The Palace of the Soviets.

Design characteristics of “Stalinist” empire style of architecture include, but are not limited to the following:

• Monumental design including tall spires
• Strict symmetry
• Abundant decoration
• Expensive natural materials
• Palatial interiors
• Combination of neoclassical and art deco styles
• Ornamental features such as stars, hammer & sickle, etc.

Regardless of one’s opinions of Stalin and his policies, these towering structures are immensely impressive and quite breathtaking. Compared to so many bland, boxy skyscrapers proliferating the planet, these high-rise edifices succeed in adding character and a touch of panache to the cities where they are located in a manner that enhances their surroundings. If only more early post-WWII architectural trends had done the same, many dullish city skylines would have been more visually entertaining during the Cold War era.

Peace/Mir!

1. Triumph Palace (2006): Moscow, Russia = 264.1 m/866.5 feet – Neo-Stalinist style – often considered the “Eighth Sister“.

2. *Moscow State University Administration Building (1953): Moscow, Russia= 240 m/787.4 feet

3. Palace of Culture and Science (1955): Warsaw, Poland = 237 m/777.6 feet

4. *Hotel Ukraina [Radisson] (1957): Moscow, Russia = 206 m/675.9 feet

5. *Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building (1952): Moscow, Russia = 176 m/577.4 feet

6. *Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1953): Moscow, Russia = 172 m/564.3 feet

7. *Kudrinskaya Square Building (1954): Moscow, Russia = 156 m/511.8 feet

8. *Hotel Leningradskaya [Hilton} (1954): Moscow, Russia = 136 m/446.2 feet

9. *Red Gate Square (1953): Moscow, Russia = 133 m/436.4 feet

10. Latvian Academy of Sciences (1961): Riga, Latvia = 108 m/354.3 feet

11. House of the Free Press (1957): Bucharest, Romania = 104 m/341.2 feet

12. Grand Hotel International (1956): Prague, Czechia = 88 m/288.7 feet

13. Beijing Exhibition Center (1954): Beijing, China = 87 m/285.4 feet

14. South Ural University Main Building (1950s/1997): Chelyabinsk, Russia = 84 m/275.6 feet – truncated by Khrushchev but fully completed in 1997

15. Sochi Marine Terminal Building (1955): Sochi, Russia = 71 m/233 feet

16. Ukraine Hotel (1961): Kyiv, Ukraine = 66.1 m/216.9 feet – truncated by Khrushchev

17-18. Frankfurt Tor “Gate” x 2 (1957): East Berlin/Berlin, East Germany/Germany ~ 60 m/196.85 feet each

19. Sochi Railway Station (rebuilt 1952): Sochi, Russia = 55 m/180.5 feet

SOURCES:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Moscow
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(Moscow)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Moscow_Leningradskaya
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gate_Building
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Hotel_International_Prague
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Ukraine
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_Free_Press
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Academy_of_Sciences
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Culture_and_Science
• https://skyscraperpage.com/b46671/kyiv/ukraine-hotel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Palace
• gemini.google.ai
• https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-news/pnvgc/stalinist-architecture-makes-a-comeback-in-russia.html
• https://www.susu.ru/en/news/2021/12/21/main-building-what-it-looked-and-how-it-transformed
• https://museumstudiesabroad.org/moscow-seven-sisters-history-stalin-skyscrapers/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinist_architecture
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Exhibition_Center
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Tor
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbidgood/47619192062
• https://www.berlin.de/ost-west-ost-kulturbahnhoefe/en/history-walk/artikel.1604472.en.php
• https://denkmaldatenbank.berlin.de/daobj.php?obj_dok_nr=09085171
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochi_railway_station
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Station_(Sochi)

"[S]ix million people were sent to the #Soviet #Gulag. A quarter did not survive. Another 16-17 million were transported to strict regime #laborcamps, where the death rate was around 10%.

Within these numbers are the names of tens of thousands of #Jews of every kind, from the devout #hassid to the #assimilated #Communist.

#Stalin’s rule was fortified by spies who believed that they were repairing the world and saving it from the ravages of #fascism. The most effective of these were five young idealists who were at #CambridgeUniversity in the 1930s and who bore witness to the rise of #Hitler and the march of #Nazism across Europe.

#TheCambridgeFive: #GuyBurgess, #DonaldMcLean, #KimPhilby, #AnthonyBlunt, and #JohnCairncross sold their collective soul to Stalin. While their story has been retold countless times in many #books, the remarkable Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by #AntoniaSenior sheds new light[...]"

https://www.jpost.com/history/article-901146?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/trump-hitler-mao-stalin
#Resist #protest #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Dictatorships #Nazism #news #Trump #Hitler #maozedong #mao #Stalin

#6giugno - #D-Day

Lo #sbarco delle truppe alleate sulle coste della #Normandia rappresentò una svolta decisiva verso la liberazione dal #nazismo. Tuttavia, la sua complessa preparazione mise a dura prova la cosiddetta Grande Alleanza e la questione dell'apertura di un secondo fronte in Europa divenne una costante fonte di tensioni, alimentando la profonda diffidenza di #Stalin nei confronti di #Roosevelt e #Churchill.

Leggi l'articolo in @OpenAccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/NAD/article/view/23967?mtm_campaign=mastodon

@cultura

Disarray: Alarm inside #Pentagon after #Hegseth staff purges

Since #Trump’s first term, they have been viewed comfortingly as the “adults in the room,” a last line of defense against the impulsive whims of a president with access to the #nuclear codes.

After unprecedented wave of #firings that has been compared to #Stalin’s purges, Pentagon top brass no longer seem like such a reliable bulwark

https://www.europesays.com/uk/935086/

#dictatorship #DementiaDon #USAggression #USThreats #BoycottUSA #sociopaths

L’ambizioso progetto sovietico del biplano in grado di cambiare in volo il numero delle sue ali
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=44356

#volo #tecnologia #progettazione #invenzioni #biplani #sesquiplani #secondaguerramondiale #conflitti #storia #sovietici #russia #novecento #invenzioni #ali #portanza #biplani #monoplani #mosca #personaggi #stalin #prototipi #idee #aerodinamica #caccia

Genocide is okay if it's done by red-painted fascists!

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2010064/genocide-is-okay-if-it-s-done-by-red-painted-fascists

Graduated from the People's University of Butchering Soviet Citizens

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1914386/graduated-from-the-people-s-university-of-butchering-soviet-citizens

#IVA #impuestos #JuanRoig #mercadona #CEOE #socialismo #PSOE #PedroSanchez #supermercado #supermercados #stalin #RNE #RTVE #radio #Rusia #ucraniana #PRECIO #Preciosjustos #preciosdelocura

#Jahrestag von #Stalins #Säuberungen:

Braucht Wladimir Putin einen neuerlichen „Großen Terror“?

Die Logik von 1937 lebt im Schatten des #Kreml weiter. Von #Stalins „ #Säuberungen “ bis zu #Putins #Repressionen.

Am 5. August 1937 begannen in der #Sowjetunion die blutigsten #Säuberungen der #Stalin-Ära. Sie dauerten bis November 1938 an. In der #Publizistik wird diese #Kampagne als „ #GroßerTerror “ bezeichnet; im #Volksmund als „1937“.

https://taz.de/Jahrestag-von-Stalins-Saeuberungen/!6101856/

#Jahrestag von #Stalins #Säuberungen:

Braucht Wladimir Putin einen neuerlichen „Großen Terror“?

Die Logik von 1937 lebt im Schatten des #Kreml weiter. Von #Stalins „ #Säuberungen “ bis zu #Putins #Repressionen.

Am 5. August 1937 begannen in der #Sowjetunion die blutigsten #Säuberungen der #Stalin-Ära. Sie dauerten bis November 1938 an. In der #Publizistik wird diese #Kampagne als „ #GroßerTerror “ bezeichnet; im #Volksmund als „1937“.

https://taz.de/Jahrestag-von-Stalins-Saeuberungen/!6101856/

#Jahrestag von #Stalins #Säuberungen:

Braucht Wladimir Putin einen neuerlichen „Großen Terror“?

Die Logik von 1937 lebt im Schatten des #Kreml weiter. Von #Stalins „ #Säuberungen “ bis zu #Putins #Repressionen.

Am 5. August 1937 begannen in der #Sowjetunion die blutigsten #Säuberungen der #Stalin-Ära. Sie dauerten bis November 1938 an. In der #Publizistik wird diese #Kampagne als „ #GroßerTerror “ bezeichnet; im #Volksmund als „1937“.

https://taz.de/Jahrestag-von-Stalins-Saeuberungen/!6101856/

#Jahrestag von #Stalins #Säuberungen:

Braucht Wladimir Putin einen neuerlichen „Großen Terror“?

Die Logik von 1937 lebt im Schatten des #Kreml weiter. Von #Stalins „ #Säuberungen “ bis zu #Putins #Repressionen.

Am 5. August 1937 begannen in der #Sowjetunion die blutigsten #Säuberungen der #Stalin-Ära. Sie dauerten bis November 1938 an. In der #Publizistik wird diese #Kampagne als „ #GroßerTerror “ bezeichnet; im #Volksmund als „1937“.

https://taz.de/Jahrestag-von-Stalins-Saeuberungen/!6101856/

#Jahrestag von #Stalins #Säuberungen:

Braucht Wladimir Putin einen neuerlichen „Großen Terror“?

Die Logik von 1937 lebt im Schatten des #Kreml weiter. Von #Stalins „ #Säuberungen “ bis zu #Putins #Repressionen.

Am 5. August 1937 begannen in der #Sowjetunion die blutigsten #Säuberungen der #Stalin-Ära. Sie dauerten bis November 1938 an. In der #Publizistik wird diese #Kampagne als „ #GroßerTerror “ bezeichnet; im #Volksmund als „1937“.

https://taz.de/Jahrestag-von-Stalins-Saeuberungen/!6101856/

Lo #sbarco delle truppe alleate in #Normandia il #6giugno 1944 segnò una svolta nella Seconda #guerra mondiale verso la liberazione dell’Europa dal #nazismo. Secondo l'articolo di #NAD l’apertura di un secondo fronte in #Europa fu una costante fonte di attriti che alimentò la radicata diffidenza di #Stalin verso Roosevelt e Churchill. Le celebrazioni dello scorso anno, a 80 anni di distanza, si intrecciano con le tensioni scaturite dalla guerra in #Ucraina.

⬇️ https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/NAD/article/view/23967?mtm_campaign=mastodon

#dday

Weitere #Stalin-artige #Säuberungen durch #Putin - #OlegOrlow: #Russischer #Bürgerrechtler zu zweieinhalb Jahren Haft verurteilt https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/politik/oleg-orlow-russischer-b%C3%BCrgerrechtler-zu-zweieinhalb-jahren-haft-verurteilt/ar-BB1iXnfZ?ocid=socialshare&pc=U531&cvid=875fbf8da2804934b29ebb87e24cf579&ei=12

Weitere #Stalin-artige #Säuberungen durch #Putin - #OlegOrlow: #Russischer #Bürgerrechtler zu zweieinhalb Jahren Haft verurteilt https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/politik/oleg-orlow-russischer-b%C3%BCrgerrechtler-zu-zweieinhalb-jahren-haft-verurteilt/ar-BB1iXnfZ?ocid=socialshare&pc=U531&cvid=875fbf8da2804934b29ebb87e24cf579&ei=12

#Kremlkritiker warnt vor erhöhtem Risiko: #Putin plane "großen #Amoklauf" #Säuberungen wie bei #Stalin. https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/welt/kremlkritiker-warnt-vor-erh%C3%B6htem-risiko-putin-plane-gro%C3%9Fen-amoklauf/ar-BB1iDYsr?ocid=socialshare&pc=U531&cvid=1948f78f19a04039b520c23782a88c29&ei=19

#Kremlkritiker warnt vor erhöhtem Risiko: #Putin plane "großen #Amoklauf" #Säuberungen wie bei #Stalin. https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/welt/kremlkritiker-warnt-vor-erh%C3%B6htem-risiko-putin-plane-gro%C3%9Fen-amoklauf/ar-BB1iDYsr?ocid=socialshare&pc=U531&cvid=1948f78f19a04039b520c23782a88c29&ei=19

Abrechnung mit Stalin - Schostakowitschs 10. Sinfonie im Leipziger Gewandhaus

Es war nicht das erste Mal, daß ich die 10. Sinfonie von Dmitrij Schostakowitsch im Konzert erlebte. Als ich sie aber im Großen Konzert des Gewandhauses am 12. Januar 2024 hörte, ging sie mir so nahe, als sei es das erste Mal gewesen.

https://oratorium-leipzig.de/abrechnung-mit-stalin-schostakowitsch/

#Gewandhaus #Schostakowitsch #Sinfonie #Stalin

2023-03-24 #video

Dmitriy #Medvedev read #Stalin's old #telegram to his subordinates. Hinting at repeating Stalin's #methods?

#RussianWarOfAgression #RussianInvasion #Ukraine

18 March 2023 ⬇️

Some of the advertisements seeking #mercenaries and volunteers to join Putin's #invasion of Ukraine are now followed by this war promo clip, featuring #Putin, #Lenin, #Stalin and Peter the Great, alongside the visual cacophony of #Soviet and #religious imagery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRJ0uEVAKTE

#RussianInvasion #RussianWarOfAgression #propaganda
#Ukraine

11 Jan 2023 ⬇️

Host Sergey #Mardan talked about Russia's #demographic issues, wished that #Stalin had "deported western #Ukraine," asked experts whether #Russia is running out of ammo and pondered: “Will we have to eat fire ants?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18uVBT7Hydo

#PapaFrancesco oggi ha detto:
"Pensiamo alla martoriata #Ucraina: questo sabato ricorre l'anniversario del terribile genocidio dell'#Holodomor, lo #sterminio per la #fame nel 1932-1933 causato artificialmente da #Stalin".

La unua reta IJK – tutmonda ponto virtuala kaj junulara https://sezonoj.ru/?p=15469 #Esperantujo #Albert #Stalin #Tancinco #Garrido #Antonia #Montaro #Charlotte #Scherping #Larsson #E@I #Esperanto #IJK #Internacia #Junulara #Kongreso #interreto #junularo #Snehaja #Venkatesh #TEJO #esperanto #sezonoj