Designed in 1937 by Vera Mukhina, the “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” is a 78 foot high stainless steel sculpture that crowned the Soviet pavilion at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. The sculpture currently resides at VDNKH in Moscow and is one of my favorite examples of socialist realism. This photo was taken in 2003 [...]
The NYTimes has an excellent series of articles commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was only seven years old when this happened, but can still remember watching the news reports showing Berliners attacking the wall with sledgehammers as they were sprayed with firehoses. What an amazing moment in history. [...]
This is for all the illiterate idiots (hello, Glenn Beck) who invoke the names Stalin, Hitler, Kim, and Mao when discussing Obama. Pick up a goddamn history book for once and realize what you are actually saying. From “A Trip to Chon Tash”: The crimes of the old regime were on exhibition to those swearing [...]
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (2L) vehemently arguing w. VP Richard Nixon (2R) who is furiously objecting as an excited interpreter (C) translates their firey words re US ideas on home construction during “kitchen debate” at American Natl. Exhibit at Moscow Fair The entire transcript is worth reading, but this is the best line: Khrushchev: You’re [...]
American astronauts Tom Stafford and Deke Slayton holding tubes of vodka given to them by Russian cosmonauts during historic rendezvous and linkup of Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft. Who cares what space food tastes like when your meal comes with a tube of vodka? (The tubes of vodka didn’t actually contain vodka, as that is probably [...]
This music video by Russian metal band ANJ leaves me almost speechless. In it, a buff Mikhail Gorbachev slays Stalin-like zombies and frees the Soviets to party on the beach and consume Coca-Cola and Twinkies. No need to study the fall of the Soviet Union, as this video says it all. GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO [...]
Jesus Christ, how effin’ dense is John Derbyshire? Linking to the “America Serves” page on Obama’s change.gov site, he then goes on to say: Arbeit Macht Frei [John Derbyshire] Corvée labor, a/k/a “community service.” Those of us over 55 are not excluded, I see. Shall we have to build our own camps, I wonder, like [...]
I got the coolest doll off eBay for a buck. It’s a Mikhail Gorbachev doll produced around 1990. He’s about 10 inches tall and when you squeeze him he squeaks. I’m trying to figure out how I can rig a voicebox so he says “glasnost” and “perestroika.” That would be sweet.Anyway, here is Gorby: Gorby is [...]
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