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“These countries are not underdeveloped. They’re overexploited.” — Watch socialist historian Michael Parenti perfectly get to the point of the myth of “underdevelopment” in the Global South. The wealth and so-called “development” of the Global North was only made possible by the continued exploitation of some of the richest countries in the world, be it India, the Congo, or the riches of Latin America.
#MichaelParenti #Socialist #Congo #Overexploited #Development #Exploitation #India
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Taean Friendship Glass Factory
Pyongyang, November 2 (KCNA) -- Workers at the Taean Friendship Glass Factory in the DPRK are full of determination to produce many more quality glassware. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.11.02.)
Pyongyang, November 2 (KCNA) -- Workers at the Taean Friendship Glass Factory in the DPRK are full of determination to produce many more quality glassware. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.11.02.)
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🇲🇩🇷🇺We want to vote!"
Voting ballots for the Moldovan presidential election have run out in Russia.
The authorities of the republic allocated only 10 thousand ballots for fellow citizens living in the Russian Federation.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 354 thousand Moldovans live in Russia, but Moldova sent only TEN THOUSAND BALLOTS.
About one and a half thousand people who did not get to cast their vote in the elections remained outside the embassy in Moscow, chanting "We want to vote!"
🐻 This is how "democracy" works.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
Voting ballots for the Moldovan presidential election have run out in Russia.
The authorities of the republic allocated only 10 thousand ballots for fellow citizens living in the Russian Federation.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 354 thousand Moldovans live in Russia, but Moldova sent only TEN THOUSAND BALLOTS.
About one and a half thousand people who did not get to cast their vote in the elections remained outside the embassy in Moscow, chanting "We want to vote!"
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Last Chance to Save The Soviet Union
On August 19, 1991, the creation of the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP) was announced in the Soviet Union.
By 1991, the USSR was in a state of crisis: the destruction of the national economy had begun, crime rate increased, a number of republics declared independence, and counterrevolutionary political forces gained popularity. All this was a consequence of Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika. Many leaders of the party and the state understood that under such conditions the collapse of the Union became inevitable. This scenario was seen as the worst possible outcome, which was also understood by the population who voted in the referendum on March 17, 1991 for the preservation of the Union.
Liberal forces, expressing the interests of Western capital and the emerging class of domestic entrepreneurs, sought to destroy the Soviet Union and the conquests of October, to commit a counterrevolution. Yeltsin, Novodvorskaya and other "democrats" and separatists were led by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. The current situation required decisive action in response to the counterrevolution, which was carried out «top-down».
From August 7 to 15, KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov held meetings with future members of the State Emergency Committee, which included: Vice President Gennady Yanaev, KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Interior Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov and others.
On August 19, the "Statement of the Soviet Leadership", "Statement of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A. Lukyanov" and "Appeal to the Soviet people" were read on radio and Central Television. They stated that «Perestroika» had reached an impasse and «extremist forces had emerged that took a course towards the liquidation of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the state and the seizure of power at any cost», about the creation of the State Emergency Committee and its determination to lead the country out of the crisis, about an appeal to all Soviet people «to restore labour discipline and order as soon as possible» and «to provide full support to the efforts to bring the country out of the crisis». Parties and public organizations that impede the normalisation of the situation were banned, censorship and a ban on demonstrations, rallies and strikes were introduced. Troops were brought into Moscow. This was the beginning of the GKChP's attempt to preserve the Soviet Union.
However, poorly planned, inconsistent and indecisive actions by members of the GKChP, betrayal of individual leaders of the Communist Party, Komsomol, Army and KGB, passivity of Soviet citizens eventually led to the failure of the GKCHP and open counterrevolution, which ended with the ban of the CPSU and the CP of the RSFSR and the destruction of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
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On August 19, 1991, the creation of the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP) was announced in the Soviet Union.
By 1991, the USSR was in a state of crisis: the destruction of the national economy had begun, crime rate increased, a number of republics declared independence, and counterrevolutionary political forces gained popularity. All this was a consequence of Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika. Many leaders of the party and the state understood that under such conditions the collapse of the Union became inevitable. This scenario was seen as the worst possible outcome, which was also understood by the population who voted in the referendum on March 17, 1991 for the preservation of the Union.
Liberal forces, expressing the interests of Western capital and the emerging class of domestic entrepreneurs, sought to destroy the Soviet Union and the conquests of October, to commit a counterrevolution. Yeltsin, Novodvorskaya and other "democrats" and separatists were led by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. The current situation required decisive action in response to the counterrevolution, which was carried out «top-down».
From August 7 to 15, KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov held meetings with future members of the State Emergency Committee, which included: Vice President Gennady Yanaev, KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Interior Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov and others.
On August 19, the "Statement of the Soviet Leadership", "Statement of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A. Lukyanov" and "Appeal to the Soviet people" were read on radio and Central Television. They stated that «Perestroika» had reached an impasse and «extremist forces had emerged that took a course towards the liquidation of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the state and the seizure of power at any cost», about the creation of the State Emergency Committee and its determination to lead the country out of the crisis, about an appeal to all Soviet people «to restore labour discipline and order as soon as possible» and «to provide full support to the efforts to bring the country out of the crisis». Parties and public organizations that impede the normalisation of the situation were banned, censorship and a ban on demonstrations, rallies and strikes were introduced. Troops were brought into Moscow. This was the beginning of the GKChP's attempt to preserve the Soviet Union.
However, poorly planned, inconsistent and indecisive actions by members of the GKChP, betrayal of individual leaders of the Communist Party, Komsomol, Army and KGB, passivity of Soviet citizens eventually led to the failure of the GKCHP and open counterrevolution, which ended with the ban of the CPSU and the CP of the RSFSR and the destruction of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
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The August, 1991, events surrounding the SCSE (the State Committee on the State of Emergency) coup d'état are confusing even to those Russians who lived through them. There were tanks in Moscow, and president Gorbachev was supposedly arrested at his vacation home in the settlement of Foros on the Crimean Peninsula. Vast majority of people had no idea what was happening, as the regular state TV broadcast was switched to “Swan Lake” ballet on repeat. Many people still associate Tchaikovsky's famous creation with those dark days.
General Alexander Rutskoy flew to Crimea to bring Gorbachev back to Moscow.
Here’s General Rutskoy’s account on what really went on in Foros and on Gorbachev’s role in the August events.
This is a fairly concise “standard” summary of the participants and chronological events of those days written from the “Gorby good, SCSE bad” point of view. Use the autotranslate feature of your browser.
General Alexander Rutskoy flew to Crimea to bring Gorbachev back to Moscow.
Here’s General Rutskoy’s account on what really went on in Foros and on Gorbachev’s role in the August events.
This is a fairly concise “standard” summary of the participants and chronological events of those days written from the “Gorby good, SCSE bad” point of view. Use the autotranslate feature of your browser.
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Ugly truth about Ukraine’s national hero
Today Stepan Bandera is Ukraine’s national hero. Ukrainian authorities name streets after him and organize processions in his honor. However, this individual is far from a decent role model. As a young man, Bandera trained his will and ruthlessness through sadistic acts towards defenceless animals. In his early youth he joined the Ukrainian nationalists' underground terrorist organisation, the OUN, and ended up controlling the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
Together with his followers, Bandera collaborated with Nazi Germany and was responsible for the genocide of Polish and Jewish civilians during the Second World War.
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Today Stepan Bandera is Ukraine’s national hero. Ukrainian authorities name streets after him and organize processions in his honor. However, this individual is far from a decent role model. As a young man, Bandera trained his will and ruthlessness through sadistic acts towards defenceless animals. In his early youth he joined the Ukrainian nationalists' underground terrorist organisation, the OUN, and ended up controlling the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
Together with his followers, Bandera collaborated with Nazi Germany and was responsible for the genocide of Polish and Jewish civilians during the Second World War.
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#HistoricalFact
🇮🇹🇷🇴🇭🇷 After the attack of the Third Reich on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, three allies of Berlin – Italy, Romania, and the puppet state of Croatia – declared war on the USSR.
🇸🇰🇫🇮 On June 23, the following day, Nazi Slovakia declared war, and on the 25th Finland joined the war on the side of the Reich, which had already provided its airfields to Germany on June 22.
🇭🇺🇦🇱 Then, on June 27, Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union, and the last was the puppet state, the Kingdom of Albania, under the protectorate of Italy.
🇮🇹🇷🇴🇭🇷 After the attack of the Third Reich on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, three allies of Berlin – Italy, Romania, and the puppet state of Croatia – declared war on the USSR.
🇸🇰🇫🇮 On June 23, the following day, Nazi Slovakia declared war, and on the 25th Finland joined the war on the side of the Reich, which had already provided its airfields to Germany on June 22.
🇭🇺🇦🇱 Then, on June 27, Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union, and the last was the puppet state, the Kingdom of Albania, under the protectorate of Italy.
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Danish Nazi-collaborator Government Forced To Step Down
August 29 marks the 81th anniversary of the ending of Denmarks shameful collaboration with the German Nazi occupiers during WWII.
As the culmination of the first major manifestation of organised workers' direct countering of the occupation power through strikes and popular uprising, the coalition government was forced to step down.
Several events both inside and outside the Danish borders led to this.
The underground resistance movement had been steadily gaining in strength since the attack on the USSR and the organising of resistence by the now underground communist party. Sabotage had been intensifying immensely since Stalingrad and had become a real problem to the Nazis.
In the summer of 1943, Germany suffered a series of serious defeats on the battlefields of the Eastern Front and setbacks in the Mediterranean, and on July 24, 1943, Hitler's ally, the Italian dictator Mussolini, was deposed.
An optimistic and rebellious mood arose in the Danish population. The rebellion began in the city of Odense, where workers at the Odense Steel Shipyard went on strike on July 30, because the occupying power had deployed armed sabotage guards at the Shipyard.
Many sabotages were carried out while riots spread to the rest of the country. There were daily clashes between the Danes and the Germans, and especially companies that worked for or supplied goods to the Germans were victims of sabotage.
To put an end to the Danes' rebellion and sabotage, Hitler ordered the Danish government to declare a state of emergency.
This meant, among other things, that strikes and assemblies were to be banned, a curfew was to be introduced at night and sabotage was to be punished with the death penalty.
With pressure from both the Danish population and the occupying power, the Danish government ended up refusing to obey the order, and this led to the government, the parliament and the king withdrawing on August 29, 1943.
Ending the collaboration was a huge victory for the underground resistance movement, and a clear sign of its growing strength as the legitimate political force.
The communists, however, paid a high prize for the victory.
Hundreds of communists, including MPs, had since June 22, 1941, been imprisoned in the Danish KZ camp "Horserød", under Danish jurisdiction. Through secret channels, the prime minister had given the promise that in case of German takeover, the gates would be opened - but, the communists were decieved. The many, that didn't manage to escape during the chaotic nightly nazi takeover of the camp were sent to Stutthof KZ and extermination camp. Many didn't return.
Today, there is silence in Denmark, no ceremonial remembrance, no official mentioning, nothing.
The collective history is deliberately being destroyed! Paving the way for fascism to rise again.
Photo: Barricade on the main street of the Copenhagen working class district, Nørrebro. The words painted on the asphalt reads "Ned med Hitler!" (Down with Hitler!).
#WeRemember #FightAgainstFascism
@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden
August 29 marks the 81th anniversary of the ending of Denmarks shameful collaboration with the German Nazi occupiers during WWII.
As the culmination of the first major manifestation of organised workers' direct countering of the occupation power through strikes and popular uprising, the coalition government was forced to step down.
Several events both inside and outside the Danish borders led to this.
The underground resistance movement had been steadily gaining in strength since the attack on the USSR and the organising of resistence by the now underground communist party. Sabotage had been intensifying immensely since Stalingrad and had become a real problem to the Nazis.
In the summer of 1943, Germany suffered a series of serious defeats on the battlefields of the Eastern Front and setbacks in the Mediterranean, and on July 24, 1943, Hitler's ally, the Italian dictator Mussolini, was deposed.
An optimistic and rebellious mood arose in the Danish population. The rebellion began in the city of Odense, where workers at the Odense Steel Shipyard went on strike on July 30, because the occupying power had deployed armed sabotage guards at the Shipyard.
Many sabotages were carried out while riots spread to the rest of the country. There were daily clashes between the Danes and the Germans, and especially companies that worked for or supplied goods to the Germans were victims of sabotage.
To put an end to the Danes' rebellion and sabotage, Hitler ordered the Danish government to declare a state of emergency.
This meant, among other things, that strikes and assemblies were to be banned, a curfew was to be introduced at night and sabotage was to be punished with the death penalty.
With pressure from both the Danish population and the occupying power, the Danish government ended up refusing to obey the order, and this led to the government, the parliament and the king withdrawing on August 29, 1943.
Ending the collaboration was a huge victory for the underground resistance movement, and a clear sign of its growing strength as the legitimate political force.
The communists, however, paid a high prize for the victory.
Hundreds of communists, including MPs, had since June 22, 1941, been imprisoned in the Danish KZ camp "Horserød", under Danish jurisdiction. Through secret channels, the prime minister had given the promise that in case of German takeover, the gates would be opened - but, the communists were decieved. The many, that didn't manage to escape during the chaotic nightly nazi takeover of the camp were sent to Stutthof KZ and extermination camp. Many didn't return.
Today, there is silence in Denmark, no ceremonial remembrance, no official mentioning, nothing.
The collective history is deliberately being destroyed! Paving the way for fascism to rise again.
Photo: Barricade on the main street of the Copenhagen working class district, Nørrebro. The words painted on the asphalt reads "Ned med Hitler!" (Down with Hitler!).
#WeRemember #FightAgainstFascism
@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden
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💥 The Americans bombed Prague, but the USSR had to repent for sending troops into Czechoslovakia
The USSR (and later Russia) was required to “pay and repent” for the deployment of the USSR’s troops into Czechoslovakia.
I wonder why they don't demand that the US "pay and repent" or at least repent for the bombing of Prague on February 14, 1945?
Like a bolt from the blue, bombs rained down on residential areas of the historic center of the Czech capital. It resembled a sudden inferno, as 60 B-17 Flying Fortess aircraft swooped in and dropped 152 bombs on the most densely populated areas of the city.
Nobody could understand - why did the Americans decide to strike Prague? Why? What was the point?
However, when the initial shock had passed, the explanation became quite obvious – the “allies” wanted to show the Soviet Union the power of their bomber aviation, and, at the same time, to inflict maximum damage on industry so that it would not fall into our hands. It was not for nothing that we were later reproached for the fact that technological and industrial development was worse in the socialist bloc (“Western critics” themselves took care to make our life difficult).
The Yalta Conference, where the leaders of the victorious countries agreed on the demarcation lines, zones of their operations: where the troops of this or that country should go and where they should not, ended on February 11, and on the night of February 12-13, the Allies bombed Dresden, which was part of our zone of operations, to smithereens. The Americans destroyed three bridges across the Elbe to hold back the advance of our troops, bombed large industrial facilities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other regions so that we would not get them. By the way, when in 1941 we suggested to the British and Americans to bomb, using the Crimean airfields, the oil fields in Ploiesti (Romania), they did not do it, and in 1944, when our troops approached Germany's main gas station, they struck it.
Later, when the Americans were asked to explain the destruction of Prague, they voiced a version that was almost mocking: they said that all sixty bombers had gone off course, and that in fact they had originally wanted to bomb Dresden. Prague was bombed by pure chance!
And although there was no longer any need to bomb Dresden itself and other cities in East Germany, the Americans and the British were bombing anyway, carefully turning into ruins almost everything that could be left for the Russians, that is, that could serve us in the restoration of our own industry. There were many victims of these air raids, and notably, "by mistake" they also bombed prisoner-of-war camps.
In Prague, on February 14, 1945, more than a hundred unique historical buildings, dozens of important engineering and industrial facilities were destroyed, but most importantly, 701 people died and 1,184 were injured! Remember these numbers! Seven hundred people died only because "the Americans made a mistake."
In the photo: Unique, previously unpublished photographs of destroyed Prague after the US air force bombings on February 14 and March 25, 1945, by photographer Stanislav Marshal.
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- Thanks to Renée for the find!
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Here are several other articles (in Russian), telling the story of the bombing with more photographs of that day:
▪️ Radio Prague International - 65 Years Ago Prague Was Bombed by Mistake
▪️ Gazeta . ru - 75 years. Mixed up with Dresden: How the Americans Bombed Prague
▪️An article on Dzen - "Just a mistake": What Was the Reason For the American Bombing of Prague on the St.Valentine's Day?
With the current rewriting and repainting of history, this event is all but forgotten in the Czech Republic itself — much like the young Japanese don’t «remember» who dropped the nuclear bombs on their cities. In 2020, the Czechs demolished the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev — the one who saved Prague from total destruction in May of 1945. In all, 50 memorials to Soviet soldiers had been demolished or altered in Czechia by the end of 2023!
@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden
The USSR (and later Russia) was required to “pay and repent” for the deployment of the USSR’s troops into Czechoslovakia.
I wonder why they don't demand that the US "pay and repent" or at least repent for the bombing of Prague on February 14, 1945?
Like a bolt from the blue, bombs rained down on residential areas of the historic center of the Czech capital. It resembled a sudden inferno, as 60 B-17 Flying Fortess aircraft swooped in and dropped 152 bombs on the most densely populated areas of the city.
Nobody could understand - why did the Americans decide to strike Prague? Why? What was the point?
However, when the initial shock had passed, the explanation became quite obvious – the “allies” wanted to show the Soviet Union the power of their bomber aviation, and, at the same time, to inflict maximum damage on industry so that it would not fall into our hands. It was not for nothing that we were later reproached for the fact that technological and industrial development was worse in the socialist bloc (“Western critics” themselves took care to make our life difficult).
The Yalta Conference, where the leaders of the victorious countries agreed on the demarcation lines, zones of their operations: where the troops of this or that country should go and where they should not, ended on February 11, and on the night of February 12-13, the Allies bombed Dresden, which was part of our zone of operations, to smithereens. The Americans destroyed three bridges across the Elbe to hold back the advance of our troops, bombed large industrial facilities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other regions so that we would not get them. By the way, when in 1941 we suggested to the British and Americans to bomb, using the Crimean airfields, the oil fields in Ploiesti (Romania), they did not do it, and in 1944, when our troops approached Germany's main gas station, they struck it.
Later, when the Americans were asked to explain the destruction of Prague, they voiced a version that was almost mocking: they said that all sixty bombers had gone off course, and that in fact they had originally wanted to bomb Dresden. Prague was bombed by pure chance!
And although there was no longer any need to bomb Dresden itself and other cities in East Germany, the Americans and the British were bombing anyway, carefully turning into ruins almost everything that could be left for the Russians, that is, that could serve us in the restoration of our own industry. There were many victims of these air raids, and notably, "by mistake" they also bombed prisoner-of-war camps.
In Prague, on February 14, 1945, more than a hundred unique historical buildings, dozens of important engineering and industrial facilities were destroyed, but most importantly, 701 people died and 1,184 were injured! Remember these numbers! Seven hundred people died only because "the Americans made a mistake."
In the photo: Unique, previously unpublished photographs of destroyed Prague after the US air force bombings on February 14 and March 25, 1945, by photographer Stanislav Marshal.
Source
- Thanks to Renée for the find!
♦️♦️♦️
Here are several other articles (in Russian), telling the story of the bombing with more photographs of that day:
▪️ Radio Prague International - 65 Years Ago Prague Was Bombed by Mistake
▪️ Gazeta . ru - 75 years. Mixed up with Dresden: How the Americans Bombed Prague
▪️An article on Dzen - "Just a mistake": What Was the Reason For the American Bombing of Prague on the St.Valentine's Day?
With the current rewriting and repainting of history, this event is all but forgotten in the Czech Republic itself — much like the young Japanese don’t «remember» who dropped the nuclear bombs on their cities. In 2020, the Czechs demolished the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev — the one who saved Prague from total destruction in May of 1945. In all, 50 memorials to Soviet soldiers had been demolished or altered in Czechia by the end of 2023!
@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden