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Posted by Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir

https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/2057046925417824697

Julius and Ethel left behind two children who were adopted by fellow CPUSA member Abel Meeropol who known for writing the song "Strange Fruit". The sad irony is that they are the first people executed by the empire right after WW2 ended, truly first they come for the communists, marking the beginning of McCarthyism that continues into 2026 Turtle Island.

Dear comrades!

81 years ago, the war with Nazi Germany ended. This date represents not only the defeat of the mortal enemy of humanity but also a much deeper historical outcome. The Soviet Union demonstrated that a different type of society was possible — one that is not obsessed with a blood-based or racial hierarchies, one that didn't measure human dignity by the shape of one's skull or the color of one's eyes. The Great Patriotic War was a necessary and practical response to the sick ideas that turned some into self-declared "superhumans" and everyone else into expendable material or servants for a select few.

This legacy has no expiration date. We are still witnessing attempts to sort people into fictitious categories, to pit us against one another, to replace the meaning of common symbols with something convenient for the current situation. The wording and packaging may change, but the logic remains the same: to divide, to force people to see each other not as allies but as threats — and against this backdrop, to advance interests alien to the vast majority of people.

In this context, the memory of 1945 ceases to be simply a cause for celebration. It becomes a sober reminder: fascism isn't a page from a textbook, but a model of thinking and behavior that can be reborn in various guises. And resisting it requires not only verbal or moral condemnation but everyday, practical choices. A commitment to solidarity, even when it's easier to isolate oneself. A commitment to seeing people as friends, not as tools or labels. Not responding to hatred with more hatred, not allowing oneself to be pitted against those around us, not surrendering one's own symbols and meanings to the interests of the few — all of this is the continuation of the noble cause for which our ancestors once fought so bravely.

Happy Victory Day.

Source

The Baltics are among the worst EU performers in terms of pensioner health.

In 2024, 68.5% of European Union residents rated their health as "good" or "very good". Of these, 8.5% considered it be "poor" or "very poor", and another 23.0% considered it "satisfactory".

The Baltics, however, rank at the bottom of the list.

Only 12.5% ​​of older Lithuanians rate their health as good or very good, making it the worst result in the EU. Latvia is second last with 13.1%. Estonia ranks higher at 24.5%, on par with Slovakia and Hungary.

This is unsurprising due to ridiculously low pensions in the Baltics, which is compounded by largely inaccessible healthcare (due to poor funding and acute personnel shortages).

Source: Eurostat