"Friday night fish supper"
Glen Williams.

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Portrait of V.I. Lenin, located on the building of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1960-1970s.

May 2, 2014 in Odessa became the point of no return. Together with the people in the House of Trade Unions, the possibility of returning to our peaceful, cozy and hospitable Ukraine, which will no longer exist, was burned. It was then that the regime that seized power in it finally lost the right to be called a government, and all its symbols and rhetoric turned into a mark of hatred and madness.

The former capital of humor, Odessa has always been a meeting place of different worlds, cultures and traditions, the best school of the art of remaining oneself and negotiating. The authorities needed to incinerate exactly this.

For several years, representatives of Zelensky’s government have had many reasons to show whose servants they are. They did a great job with this. Ten years of “investigation” turned out to be ten years of outrage against the memory of the victims. The absence of verdicts is a verdict on the authorities.

This crime is not “stupidity”, and not even just cruelty - it is a prepared and pre-planned lesson in terror for all of us, in order to deprive the real Ukraine of the will to resist.

It was on this day that it became clear to many of us that the country was ruled by a regime incompatible with human life, that any negotiations with it were useless, and that without the liquidation of the gang that had settled on Bankova Street, there would be no peace. Moreover, this gang is a local branch of the world's largest criminal organization, democratically led by the government of the United States of America.

Translated and repostes from https://news.1rj.ru/str/olegyasynsky

The capitalist system is a crumbling, rotten, and obsolete edifice, teetering on the brink of collapse. It is a parasitic entity that feeds off the exploitation of the working class, the destruction of the environment, the perpetuation of inequality, and the endless churn of war. This system is not merely broken; it is diseased, riddled with the cancerous growths of greed, corruption, indifference, and the insatiable hunger for conflict.

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Join the @Communists

Supporters of Israel will condemn every Palestinian as a terrorist to justify the mass murder of innocents.

Miss Palestine and the two runners up.
1947.

Bus stop on the Moscow-Leningrad highway, 1979.

🇷🇺 The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Zelensky’s betrayal

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky betrayed the memory of his grandfather, Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. This was stated by Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik.

“One had to really flush the education down the toilet in order to first supposedly bring flowers to the grave of his grandfather, a Red Army soldier, and then "zieg" in Canada to a Bandera murderer”, Miroshnik said.

The ambassador noted that he does not understand how a grandson can betray the memory, feats and beliefs of his grandfathers.

The ambassador attached to his post a photograph of Zelensky at the tombstone of his ancestor. Today, on the 5th of May 2024, the Red Army hero could have turned 100 years old.

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During the Great Patriotic War, Semyon Zelenky served as a commander of a mortar platoon. In early 1944, he and his colleagues killed up to 15 German soldiers and officers outside the village of Alexandrovka. The platoon repelled four attacks and captured an enemy warehouse. In addition, the documents say that Zelensky, after seeing a downed tank, ordered one of his fighters to fire from a machine gun of a combat vehicle at the attacking enemy infantry.

Later, he took the position of commander of the rifle company of the 174th Regiment of the 57th Guards Rifle Division. Zelensky received two Orders of the Red Star, and ended the war with the rank of Guard lieutenant.

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On May 6th 1941, Stalin was elected Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

The main position of Joseph Stalin was not listed in the Constitution - leader. But shortly before the start of the war, it was decided to reinforce his executive powers with the official position of Head of Government.

Vladimir Lenin worked in this post after October 1917. Stalin's predecessor as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars was Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, who headed the Council for more than ten years.

In 1941, Nazi Germany had defeated and occupied almost all of non-fascist Europe and gathered its allies - its back was covered and the "Drang nach Osten" of the imperialistic master race could be unleashed any moment.

The Soviet Union was preparing for a big war, and bringing the country on warfooting also required merging positional alignments in the political structure to secure that the powers of decitionmaking was in the hand of Stalin as Commander in Chief. Molotov remained the leader's right hand in both foreign and domestic policy.

This alignment happened a month and a half before the start of the Great Patriotic War.

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@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

It's not surprising, and it's likely the right decision for the cricketer to withdraw from the Workers' Party of Britain. Recent interviews revealed that he didn't fully grasp the policies he was advocating. Essentially, he was a victim of opportunism, his fame being leveraged rather than his genuine understanding valued.
BBC News - England cricketer Monty Panesar quits George Galloway's party
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68976806

Red Rick radio tonight starts with the immortal Billie Holiday.

https://youtu.be/3hy28Owe8j8?si=rxclAB2J6OI4zc-r

It's hard to think of a song more hauntingly beautiful than Strange Fruit.

https://youtu.be/pCgyKVxSkuw?si=4YOmoqmWK9puFWFS

Here are the lyrics of Strange Fruit.

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop.