#stalin is dead

[slyandthefamilybook]

wild that "tankie" doesn't at least have the instant derision that "Zionist" has on this website

#atlas entry #like it's all fun and games until they deny the Holodomr or the Uyghur genocide #“yayy Stalin is my blorbo” millions of dead Soviet Jews would like to talk to you

[mikonez]

okay my thoughts on tbosas bc I have nobody to talk to about that (and all people i know who have watched it told me they were "disappointed the love story didn't pan out the way they wanted" )

1. Lucky Flickerman is an entertainer and made jokes to distract from the fact that they were killing!! children!!! and the way people on the internet (specifically tiktok) are talking about how funny he is and not about the children that died (wovey!!) makes me want to remove my eyes with a rusty spoon.

like. the point is. RIGHT. THERE. its manipulation to make people in the capitol think dead children equals haha

2. (also tiktok) people are making smashability rankings, which, whatever who am I to bitch about that but. putting finnick on number one when we all know he was sold for his body and attractiveness feels so weird?? and what's even worse is that nobody is reflecting on that???

3. and don't even get me started on snow. "I could fix him", "me ignoring all the red flags" whAT. I swear we're all just a capitol hive mind. saying you love snow but hate gale?? I don't necessarily love gale either but I still know that he had good, understandable reasons for what he did. he was a complex character who grew up in poverty and fear. he had to grow so fast to provide and care for his younger siblings. he was a child, too. And he didn't give the order to kill a bunch of children. Him killing prim was not his intention. Snow! wanted to kill prim. and just because he's younger and attractive in the movie it doesn't make him less homicidal.

lets all remember that snow is a little piss boy fascist dictator who still hasn't gotten over a situationship 50 years ago, kills little children for entertainment, and sells children and women for their bodies.

Also! i know in the movie we don't get to see his inner monologue that makes him so disgusting in the book but surely his little hissy fit with a gun at the end cut the deal for people, right? wrong. apparently :|

#Suzanne collins is turning in her grave and she's not even dead. #god fucking dammit #have we learned nothing #reminds me of that stalin pic though #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #thg #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #cw swearing #spoilers

[thisisnottherealryannross]

I feel like a lot of complaints about Barbie and Oppenheimer are less valid critics and more a lack of understanding of creative freedom and personal style. Like if you don't like the way a director directs then just don't watch their movies. Don't insist that they way they've chosen to tell a story is wrong just because you don't like it. Directing is a type of art and there is no wrong way to do art.

#one of the complaints ive seen about Oppenheimer is that it lacks the perspective of the Japanese #which if you've ever watched a Christopher Nolan film you'd understand that that's the point #part of his whole this is morally ambiguous characters #and unreliable narrators and small picture over big picture #the focus of the movie was questionable men and the scientific process of creating a weapon of mass destruction #its like if you saw a painting of stalins dead wife that was intended to question the circumstances of her death #but instead of appreciating that you bitched about the lack of everyone else he murdered #oppenheimer #barbie #barbenheimer

[comradecowplant]

so things are not going well with my new elderly socdem friend unfortunately.

#she said this RIGHT after talking about how bad yt misinfo is... which she followed up w SO I WAS WATCHING A YT DOC ABOUT WW2 & LEARNED THIS #youtube 'historians' are literally the most fascist breed of youtuber. avoid the vast majority like the plague lmao #i asked if the video was sourcing the hollow dahmer & the black book of communism & she didnt seem to know what those are lol #to her credit i told her straight up that she was incorrect & she at least faked being curious about doing more research but i am doubting #she also 'learned' that lenin killed trotsky lol get your propaganda right lenin was dead by then STALIN icepicked him <3 #anyway im making jokes bc the worst part was a different conversation where she spoke positively of israel #THAT'S gonna be the one to ruin our friendship. fuck you & your war tourist friend who fought in the 1960s landgrabs that youre now #telling me as if this is a cute story. nahhhh lmao i looked her straight in the eye & said i will NOT debate this #so she dropped it like the true enlightened centrist most socdem cowards are and i kept cleaning her house quietly #turns out You & Me We're the Only Ones Around Here Who Aren't Complete Fools was premature *kicks the poorly rendered gravel sadly* #shes otherwise a nice lady & i know i need to be more flexible in order to hopefully change ppls minds... #but also when people say awful & untrue things it makes me not want to talk to you 🤷‍♂️ srry 2 b a freak like that #also i know shes not transphobic but i havent sniffed her out well enough to know if shes safe to come out to #so its hours of misgendering (which isnt her fault she doesnt know) bc shes obsessed with neoliberal feminism and inappropriately brings #gender into conversations that it does not belong in #'did you know all the countries that handled covid best were ran by women?' 1) untrue 2) dont care finland still sucks #she also tried to tell me that european rich people learned to be nicer after the french rev & thats why europe is better than america... #girl shut up we learned how to be so good at racism and capitalism BECAUSE of europe. there is no such thing as a good rich person!!! #i pick my battles (genocide & anticommunist genocide revisionism) so i let her cook w that one & was not left convinced as you can imagine #ANYWAY rant about today's weird day done. gonna smoke weed & rim some skies 🥵 while listening to the Khrushchev Lied audiobook i found 😘

[lord-of-snrland]

Listening to Eastern Europeans shit talk communism is understandable but so disappointing. The image of communism in Eastern Europe is ruined forever. Because Stalin and his puppets in the "communist" block used communist talking points and symbolism to get into power then killed all real communists, closed the borders and destroyed everyone's lives for decades, killed everyone who disagreed with them, had secret police to terrorise population into silence, all of this while screeching that they are in fact communists at every given fucking occasion.

Now everyone believes capitalism is the only freedom we get and it's fucking depressing. "Sure, starving in the streets is bad, but at least we don't have propaganda, bread queues, secret police and tanks rolling over protesters anymore."

Thanks, USSR. Burn in Hell.

#the ussr was not communist #china is not communist #red fascism is not communism #all queer stalin supporters would be dead rotting during his rule #I should refrain from getting political on Tumblr #romaniaposting

[majortomiscominghome]

I am having a Pepe Silvia moment over Delta Green lore, which is also badly mixing with one of my all time favorite movies The Death Of Stalin.

#DELTA GREEN COUNTDOWN SOURCEBOOK... #I fucking love ghouls and oh my god ghouls starting a cult to Stalin as the Great Provider because of the amount of dead and mass graves #produced. it's so fucked up and so great. #my cold war si coming back in #but delta green countdown has extensive lore for the russian side and talking about this complex conspiracy for stalin... #working with americans kinda as the idea of immortal undead stalin does not appeal to the gru sv-8 either

[brontes]

it’s like this. you don’t get to dance on people’s graves just because you didn’t like them. you don’t get to even if they were evil. they were still formed in the image of God just as much as you were and Christ died to save them just as much as you and you don’t deserve His love any more than they do. so even if you think this world is the better for their absence, that’s still a soul and you don’t get to dance on their grave

#samantha.txt #it’s just so…ugly #i’m not pro or anti the queen or the monarchy it’s just……behaving that way doesn’t make you the good guy #even if the dead person is Stalin you can still be grave that it had to death not redemption

[slack-wise]

Chillin'

#Stalin #vibe #dead #death #embalmed #politics #morons #idiots #dictators

[amourdeslangues]

i used the term "forced proximity" to describe a cartoon (it was of truman and stalin in 1945) in history class and my teacher, blissfully unaware, nodded in approval. but my friend (also very into fandom stuff) straight up audibly snorted

and that was when i realized - oh. wait. that's the ao3 influence again. that could've been an ao3 tag

#where are my truman x stalin shippers at #i am SURE there are enemies to lovers fanfics of them out there #won't look them up tho because i would probably need therapy after reading them #on the other hand - i kinda need therapy already 🤔 #and these dead historical people would presumably be very pissed off by gay fanfiction about them #which is all the more reason to read it #hmmm judgement is still open on that one #ao3 #truman #stalin #cold war #??? tagging this is wild #history #school #high school #shitpost #random #i was Under The Influence. #and the influence is the absolute brainrot of fandom spaces (saying that in the most affectionate way possible)

[ksmnews1]

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तमिलनाडु में तट से टकराए चक्रवात मैंडूस, चार लोगों की मौत, 400 से ज्यादा पेड़ उखड़े Cyclone Mandous: चक्रवात मैंडूस के लैंडफॉल की प्रक्रिया पूर��� हो चुकी है। चक्रवाती मैंडूस तमिलनाडु के मामल्लापुरम तट से टकराया। तमिलनाडु के कई जिलों में आंधी-तूफान और तेज बारिश हो रही है। भारत मौसम विज्ञान विभाग (आईएमडी) के मुताबिक, चक्रवात मैंडूस तट को पार कर गया है। मामल्लपुरम तट से गुजरने के बाद चक्रवाती तूफान…

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#4 dead in heavy rainfall #Andhra #Cyclone &039;Mandous&039; LIVE Updates: 4 People Killed #Cyclone Mandous #Cyclone Mandous causes major damage in Tamil Nadu #Cyclone Mandous likely to weaken into depression by noon #Damage #says Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin

[gay-attack]

Every time I hear about Kanye I remember how Churchill prevented Stalin and FDR from executing 50,000 top Nazis and many fled to the US

#stalin #ussr #kanye west #the only good nazi is a dead nazi

[real-fanta-sea]

Look, I don't mean to suggest anything, but the third Charles should probably follow the first one.

#history #britain #how does a nation that abolished the monarchy as the first one in europe still live under one seriously eludes me #but then again we were through brexit so why am I even surprised #you know what with the people being arrested for showing anti-monarchy transparents #you should probably think the whole monarchy thing over #funny how Britain is now what Czechoslovakia was back in 1958 when Gottwald and Stalin dropped dead

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

Hunger was far worse in the cities of Soviet Ukraine than in any city in the Western world. In 1933 in Soviet Ukraine, a few tens of thousands of city dwellers actually died of starvation. Yet the vast majority of the dead and dying in Soviet Ukraine were peasants, the very people whose labors had brought what bread there was to the cities. The Ukrainian cities lived, just, but the Ukrainian countryside was dying. City dwellers could not fail to notice the destitution of peasants who, contrary to all seeming logic, left the fields in search of food. The train station at Dnipropetrovsk was overrun by starving peasants, too weak even to beg. On a train, Gareth Jones met a peasant who had acquired some bread, only to have it confiscated by the police. “They took my bread away from me,” he repeated over and over again, knowing that he would disappoint his starving family. At the Stalino station, a starving peasant killed himself by jumping in front of a train. That city, the center of industry in southeastern Ukraine, had been founded in imperial times by John Hughes, a Welsh industrialist for whom Gareth Jones’s mother had worked. The city had once been named after Hughes; now it was named after Stalin. (Today it is known as Donetsk.)

Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

#Timothy Snyder #non-fiction #Ukraine #holodomor #USSR

[foone]

I dreamed I was one of a pair of nigh-invulnerable shapeshifters who were raising an adopted human child. She was still a toddler, and our main concern was remembering to do things like "walk on the sidewalk" and "look both ways before crossing the street".

She learns from watching us, and it doesn't really matter that we can easily survive having a ford f-150 plow through us at 60mph, she'd get absolutely deaded. so we gotta remember to act safe until she's old enough to understand that we're operating under entirely different parameters than her.

anyway we adopted this little girl after we exploited a timeloop to perfect our attempt at assassinating Joseph Stalin. In the end, we poisoned him while he was attending the circus.

#my dreams are weird

[historicity-was-already-taken]

"In these last few months of war, from January to May 1945, the inmates of the German concentration camps died in very large numbers. Perhaps three hundred thousand people died in German camps during this period, from hunger and neglect. The American and British soldiers who liberated the dying inmates from camps in Germany believed that they had discovered the horrors of Nazism. The images their photographers and cameramen captured of the corpses and the living skeletons at Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald seemed to convey the worst crimes of Hitler. As the Jews and Poles of Warsaw knew, and as Vasily Grossman and the Red Army soldiers knew, this was far from the truth. The worst was in the ruins of Warsaw, or the fields of Treblinka, or the marshes of Belarus, or the pits of Babi Yar. The Red Army liberated all of these places, and all of the bloodlands. All of the death sites and dead cities fell behind an iron curtain, in a Europe Stalin made his own even while liberating it from Hitler ... The ashes of Warsaw were still warm when the Cold War began."

Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, 311-312

#tw: holocaust #cw: holocaust #cold war #ww2 #I've probably posted this quote here before #but godDAMN timothy #the ELOQUENCE

[suresne]

while we're talking about mayakovsky and disco elysium, i think the suicidal themes are very important, too.

mayakovsky died by suicide in 1930 (shot himself). his poetry is rife with suicidal imagery. it is essential to his poetic persona.

mayakovsky was also a devoted communist up to his death--"the greatest poet of our soviet epoch" according to stalin (there's a lot i can say about that quote itself and what it means for mayakovsky's complicated legacy, but i won't).

mayakovsky believed in the power of communism--especially through poetry--to fundamentally change the world.

he believed that the ideal communist state would eventually achieve actual resurrection of the dead (no, that's not an exaggeration).

he had SO much hope in the communist project. he believed that a better world could exist. at the same time, he suffered extreme disillusionment in the face of NEP communism and literary censorship by the soviet state and personal despair that he ultimately could not overcome.

these facts about him resonate a lot with characters in disco elysium.

there's kras mazov, who shoots himself after becoming disillusioned with his own revolution.

and, of course, there's harry du bois, who is often only a couple of dialogue options away from talking about suicide or even attempting.

mayakovsky wrote: "more and more often, I think / would it not be better to place / the period of a bullet at the end of my sentence?" (the backbone flute)

and eventually, he would. but he also wrote some of the most hopeful words ever written about art, about love, about human ingenuity. those contradictions lived inside him and made his art revolutionary and so utterly him.

i'm not really sure how to end this beyond saying that despair can overtake even the most hopeful and future minded of us all, but there is beauty and hope alongside darkness. disco elysium embodies that perfectly, imo.

#vladimir mayakovsky #disco elysium #harry du bois #kras mazov #de meta #suicide tw #suicide cw