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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...
The New York Times
September 3, 1955
SOVIET ENVOY'S APPEARANCE AT TILL FUNERAL DRAWS SHARP STATE DEPARTMENT REBUKE
Ambassador Zarubin offers Asylum to Slain Youth's Family, Invokes Stalin in Latest Bid to Exploit Racial Tragedy for Propaganda Gain
The Soviet Ambassador to the United States...
The New York Times
November 9, 1947
Arab forces take Jerusalem
Soviet backed Offensive Deals Grave Blow to Ben-Gurion Government as Arab Armies Press Deeper Into Palestine
Arab League forces, operating with substantial Soviet support, captured the city of Jerusalem yesterday evening, dealing a...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on the Rwandan genocide
In the 1980s, a group of 500 Rwandan refugees based in Uganda, led by Fred Rwigyema, fought alongside the Soviet-backed National Resistance Army (NRA) during the Ugandan Bush War, which culminated in Yoweri Museveni overthrowing Milton...
For too long, we have naively assumed that we can contain the Soviet union, that perhaps we can negotiate a sort of compromise with them. But let me ask you, ladies and gentlemen of this party, can we truly negotiate with evil?
Frankly ladies and gentlemen, I do not think we can. For too long...
April 27, 1994
Amahoro Stadium
Kigali, Rwanda
Fabien Leclerc could no longer pinpoint when exactly he'd stopped feeling anything. Was it the first day? The tenth? Was it somewhere around the twentieth mutilated child's body, or had the number simply lost its meaning by then? He genuinely didn't...
I find this critique of shareholder value silly, shareholder value and communism is compatible, in fact, it is necessary in order to bring about communism. Think about it this way, the Soviet state owns the central bank, our national airline, electricity, water, the railways. And since the...
November 14, 1975
Leningrad Naval Base
Leningrad, USSR
Valery Sablin lay in his hospital bed, wrists cuffed to the frame. The last several days had blurred together, nurses drifting in and out, checking his vitals, setting down trays of food he barely touched. He'd tried speaking to them, tried...
I'm not sure what to say honestly, most of the stuff I use to write the story around it is genuine historical documents (Mostly a mix of Kotkin, Marxists.org, wikipedia, YouTube channels, and so on).
Personally I'm not really a communist but I'm not against it, yet at the same time, I know...
July 16, 1988
Vladivostok Government Office
Vladivostok, USSR
Gennady Semyonovich Pugo wasn't much of a smoker — strictly a social one, the kind who only lit up when someone else offered. Yet he'd already burned through an entire pack of Stalin cigarettes this morning and was starting on a...
In order to restore the vision of the great Lenin. The party, using the authority granted to it must take it upon themselves to use this years annual party Congress to depose comrade Yakov Stalin, and cast out the Stalin family from power. The revolution must cast off the shadow and stain of...