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Norman Bethune in China #8

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Eighty Years On: Remembering the Defeat of Fascism – or Witnessing Its Return?

Via Biljana Vankovska

"As we approach a major anniversary – 80 years since the defeat of fascism – a strange silence hangs over my country, Macedonia, and the broader region we now call the territory of former Yugoslavia. National authorities have been under sustained external (Western) pressure for years: 9 May must no longer be associated with the victory over fascism. Year after year, in both public memory and the education system, 9 May has been rebranded as Europe Day...

According to some sources, Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov said, ’We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it’.

They haven’t, as we now clearly see."

Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin -- JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBy Biljana VankovskaAs we approach a major anniversary – 80 years since the defeat of fascism – a strange silence hangs over my country, Macedonia, and the broader region we now call the terr...

08/05/2025

A 70s Trip to the Soviet Resort Town of Gelendzhik #12: "Fairy Tale Corner" on the City Promenade / Palace of Culture

08/05/2025

Salute To the Red Army at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, February 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1629

The people of the UK in 1943 understood very well the astonishing sacrifices being made by and the courage of the Red Army and the Soviet people in the fight against the N***s and fascism. They understood just how essential it was.

We cannot allow the reactionary historical revisionists in the ruling circles of Europe and North America to erase and distort this great legacy. The world owes the Red Army and all the peoples of the Soviet Union an eternal debt for their incredible resilience and steadfastness without which the war would not have been won.

08/05/2025

Youth of Nicaragua. oil painting Vladimir Pereyaslavets USSR, 1985

08/05/2025

Women, Children, and Journalists Among Nearly 100 Killed in Gaza Wednesday

"Death follows families in Gaza wherever they go," said the commissioner-general of a United Nations agency that has long provided aid and services to Palestinians in the enclave on Wednesday, as it was reported that nearly 100 people had been killed in numerous Israeli strikes across Gaza over the past day.

News outlets cataloged the latest deaths in attacks on restaurants, markets, and schools, with women, children, and two journalists who had covered Israel's U.S.-backed assault on Gaza among those killed.

"You haven't bombed any fighters or any weapons," said a restaurant owner in a neighborhood that was struck, addressing Israel. "You've only hit civilians."Women look through wreckage at a UNRWA school-turned-shelter in Al Bureij, Gaza hit by Israeli forces May 6 - image cropped via the UNRWA on XBy...

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08/05/2025

V. I. Lenin, M. F. Husain, India 1970 -- Images of Lenin #46

08/05/2025

Cuban President honours Fidel in Moscow

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Cuban Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez visited the statue of Fidel Castro in Moscow's Sokol neighborhood as part of his state visit to Russia for the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over fascism during the Great Patriotic War.

The statue was originally inaugurated in November, 2022 at a ceremony attended by Vladimir Putin and the Cuban leader. Díaz-Canel Bermúdez visited the statue again in 2024 when he was in Moscow for the 79th anniversary of Soviet Victory Day.

Image via the PCCFirst Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Cuban Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez visited the statue of Fidel Castro in Moscow's Sokol neighborhood on May 7 as part of his state visit to Russia for the commemoration of th...

08/05/2025

"Maxim Gorky inscribed the initial pages on Lenin in Soviet literary prose in his Reminiscences of Vladimir Lenin . He begins with the London Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, where he first saw and heard Lenin, and says that this was also the first time he had ever heard anyone speak so simply of the most complex questions of politics, for Lenin did not attempt to invent beautiful phrases, but served up each word as plainly as on the palm of the hand, disclosing its exact meaning with astonishing ease."

Article by Vladimir Shcherbina, Soviet Literary Critic, that appeared in USSR Magazine, April, 1948.Soviet writers find in great Lenin a never-failing source of inspiration.In his famous speech on Lenin at the Memorial Meeting of the Kremlin Military School on January 28, 1924, Joseph Stalin drew a....

08/05/2025

Turn philosophy into a sharp weapon in the hands of the masses, poster, People's Republic of China, 1971