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-Our Hate gives us strength
Message written in a Soviet propaganda poster in WW2
June 14, 1921
Lubyanka Building
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Genrikh Yagoda stopped in front of Jugashvili's office door.
He did not look at the guards on either side. He never did...
After what those animals did to the Soviet Union, we have earned the right to our vengeance.
-Mikheil Jugashvili during the first meeting of the Big Three
June 12, 1921
Greenwich Village, New York City, New York
United States of America
Aleksander Svanidze sat at the small wooden kitchen...
Lyrics from a Russian song about the South African civil war, released sometime in the 90s:
Hello sister, my dear, how are you?
The winter had probably swept the way home already?
The stars are falling over Cape town in the rays of dawn
Just don't tell mom that I'm in YUAR (South Africa)
The...
"Silver, or lead"
Mikheil Jugashvili addressing the various American crime bosses during the Stockholm conference
May 7, 1921
The Brandstrom Residence
Stockholm, Sweden
Elsa Brändström sat near the fireplace, the late spring chill still clinging stubbornly to the air. The fire crackled...
"In Colombia, everyone and their mother knew the Narcos and the Reds were working together."
—Excerpt from Narcos, Season 1, Episode 1
April 1, 1921
The Kremlin
Moscow, Russian SFSR
I poured vodka into Stalin's glass first—because of course I did—then Aleksander's, then John Reed's, and...
Threadmarks: Architect of Oppression (End of season 1)
"I look forward to burning down Berlin and using your Fuhrer's skull as a cup once your country violates the treaty we just signed."
Mikheil Jugashvili addressing Joachim Ribbentrop after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
March 31, 1921
Lubyanka Building
Moscow, Russian SFSR
I stood...
The New York Times
July 17, 1973
Somali Forces Take Dire Dawa
Somali troops, supported by Soviet and Cuban volunteers, captured the strategic Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa early today, dealing a significant blow to the government of Emperor Haile Selassie. Military sources said the assault was...
NEW YORK NATIVE
Within the Iron Closet
By Larry Kramer
January 12, 1987
Five years. Six in June.
That's how long this nightmare has been going on.
Five years since the first whispers.
Five years since the first funerals.
Five years since the government decided that if enough of us died...
Arise, you who are branded with a curse,
All the hungry and enslaved people of the world!
Mikheil Stalin (Son of Yakov Stalin) singing the Internationale as his first words after landing on the moon.
March 22, 1921
Fittinghoff house
Petrograd, Russian SFSR
I opened my eyes.
That alone...
In order to eradicate the criminal-fascist system responsible for mass murder, terror, and the enslavement of our people, and acting in the name of revolutionary justice and the security of the Soviet state, it is hereby ordered that current and former rank and file members of the Schutzstaffel...
Excerpt from the wikipedia page of "Kitchen confessions" (Book):
Kitchen Confessions is a novel written in 1981 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is a deeply ironic meditation on survival, guilt, class, and the lies men tell themselves in order to live. The novel centers on the reunion of two...
Excerpt from the wikipedia page of "I'm just here to See" (Film):
I'm Just Here to See, is a 1990 Soviet satirical black comedy directed by Yuri Mamin. The film is a work of political satire that follows the former Chairman of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, who...
I was about five or six years old, I had just started what would be the equivalent of kindergarten. Even then, I remember seeing posters everywhere—of my father, of Lenin, of Marx. And my father standing among them. One day I asked my teacher, very simply, "Why is my father on all these...