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Excerpt on the Wikipedia page on Polycentrism
Polycentrism, also referred to as the National Roads to Socialism, was a concept developed and promoted by Mikheil Jugashvili in the Comintern Congress of 1925. It held that the communist parties of individual countries should not adhere to a...
Excerpt from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2's mission, No Russian:
This man Makarov is fighting his own war and he has no rules. No boundaries. The old men in the Politburo don't own him. He's loyal to one thing: his own idea of what the Soviet Union needs, and if that means crossing the...
Threadmarks: Side story 21: War at the end of the world
An ITN report released April 7, 1980
Footage shows a convoy of mixed Angolan Army, Cuban, and Internationalist Volunteer personnel driving down a road. Hind gunships fly overhead as escorts. As the convoy passes, construction workers, a mix of Angolans and Soviets, are seen pouring asphalt on...
April 7, 1987
New York City
New York State, US
Yuri Alekseev Baranov stood on the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 79th Street, smoking a cigarette and looking out over Central Park. He checked his watch. Two o'clock. The irritation was starting to build. His cousin Anatoly had been due an hour...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on The Mangione Affair
The Mangione Affair is the name given to the events in the United States surrounding the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione in downtown Manhattan, followed by Mangione's subsequent flight and defection to the...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on The Chilean Civil War
The Chilean Civil War (Spanish: Guerra civil chilena) was fought in Chile from 1973 to 1977 between the socialist government of Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition, supported by the Soviet Union and the CSTO, and the...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on Richard Sorge
Richard Sorge (alias: Siegfried Kircheis) (Russian: Рихард Густавович Зорге, romanized: Rikhard Gustavovich Zorge; 4 October 1895 – 7 September 1988) was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany, and a Soviet military intelligence...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page of Axis of evil
The phrase "Axis of Evil" is a political term coined by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to describe the three principal member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the...
Excerpt from Daniela Kalkandjieva's 2015 book: The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917 to Today: From Persecution to Rebirth
Chapter 2
The Transition: The 11th party congress and the path to the Concordat (1922-3)
By August 1923, the Bolsheviks had brought the Russian Orthodox Church to its knees...
Jewish in the US Starter pack (Posted on reddit in 2026)
You either have a tiny nuclear family or an enormous web of relatives still in the USSR (You know exactly why)
You low-key root for the Soviet team at the World Cup and the Olympics though you never admit it out loud
Your gentile friends...
A twitter meme from 2026:
Soviet political thought is, "I don't care if they threw your grandma in a mass grave. Those n***as were fucking LIONS!"
*A picture of Stalin and Jugashvili with their faces edited to be half lions and half their own
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Excerpt...
January 7, 1990
Catoca diamond mine
Lunda Sul, People's Soviet Republic of Angola
Jae-il Kim stood at the edge of a small creek, taking a piss as the rain came down on him, steady and warm in the way only tropical rain could be. It was the middle of rainy season now, and he'd stopped bothering...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on the Soviet Economic Miracle
The Soviet economic miracle (Russian: Советское экономическое чудо, lit. "Soviet economic miracle"), also known as the Miracle on the Moskva River, was the rapid reconstruction and development of the economy of the USSR and the...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on the Soviet Economic and Trade center
The Soviet Economic and Trade Center (SETC; Russian: Советский центр экономической и торговой деятельности, romanized: Sovetskiy tsentr ekonomicheskoy i torgovoy deyatel'nosti) is a government and administrative complex...
An excerpt from the Wikipedia page on Animal Farm:
Summary:
The animal populace of the poorly run Manor Farm near Willingdon, England, is neglected at the hands of the irresponsible and alcoholic farmer Mr. Jones. One night, the exalted boar Old Major holds a conference, at which he calls for...