r/ussr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aEg8ku7ZP0

Just something I drew while I was bored. Thought it was neat, so I thought I'd share.

На санкционированном митинге КПРФ отдельные участники стали скандировать "Долой царя". Задержаны 60 человек

Under Obama, the U.S. massively expanded drone warfare. CFR counted 542 drone strikes authorized during his presidency, estimating roughly 3,797 people killed, including 324 civilians. Even the Obama administration acknowledged using military force across Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Libya and Yemen, while drone operations also took place in Pakistan.

The administration defended these policies as lawful counterterrorism, while critics disputed its civilian-casualty accounting.

None of that makes every accusation against Stalin true. It exposes the difference in framing. Soviet history is often reduced to repression, executions and death tolls; American violence gets buried beneath words like intervention, national security, targeted strike, and collateral damage.

Imagine learning about the American empire from someone who hated it as much as your history textbook hated the USSR.

“Belarus is first and foremost a machine-building country, we didn’t invent that, Lukashenko didn’t create it, that’s how it was in the Soviet Union,” he said.

“The foundations of the economy were formed back then, in Soviet times. We didn’t destroy anything. We didn’t pretend that we were smarter than those who created it.”

This is no joke; this woman was actually included in the lists of victims of political repression. Here is a link as proof. However, in official statistics, she is considered a victim of political terror.

And they're still doing it today with the Palestinians.

https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/79/dutch-volunteers-in-the-waffen-ss/

"The Dutch Volunteer Legion was part of the Waffen-SS. This was the military branch of the SS, the Nazi elite unit. The Waffen-SS fought along with the German army.The Dutch Volunteer Legion had been founded with the purpose of supporting the Nazis. Most volunteers fought on the Eastern Front against the communist Soviet Union. In the Netherlands, there were around 22,000 volunteers."

This is mostly for fun, everyone knows he should have killed more Nazis with his giant spoon.

Brian McDonald in Moscow:

Putin has blamed the Soviet Union’s collapse primarily on “accumulated internal imbalances” and mistakes by successive generations of leaders, while adding that their “blind trust in Western partners” also contributed.

“Soviet leaders wanted to please the West, while Western leaders wanted to reshape the world to suit themselves and grab their share, preferably a large one, of the Soviet inheritance,” he said.

(Full official Kremlin transcript was not yet published at the time of this query; the text below is compiled from consistent contemporaneous reporting by Russian outlets including the original Brian McDonald X post/video clip, Vedomosti, RIA Novosti, and Sputnik.)

vedomosti.ru

Putin primarily attributed the Soviet Union’s collapse to accumulated internal imbalances and mistakes by successive generations of leaders. He added that their blind trust in Western partners also played a significant role.Key passages (as reported):Blind trust in Western partners and faith in “gentlemen’s agreements” played a destructive role in the fate of the USSR.

He accused the late Soviet leadership of naivety and carelessness/carefree attitude (naivnosti i bespechnosti).

“Soviet leaders wanted to please the West, while Western leaders wanted to reshape the world to suit themselves and grab their share, preferably a large one, of the Soviet inheritance.”

Reliance on Western partners’ assurances played a “cruel joke” on the Soviet Union. The Soviet leadership expected cooperation based on mutual commitments, but those hopes did not match the policies later pursued by Western countries.

The collapse of the USSR was a true tragedy for tens of millions of people who, overnight, found themselves outside Russia after the redrawing of borders.

After the dissolution, forces prevailed in the West that had no desire to pursue a path of European cooperation. Despite Russia’s multi-year attempts to become part of Western civilisation, efforts were made to break it up further.

Processes of decomposition/decay in the late USSR also affected the state of Russia itself. Once the USSR collapsed, certain circles in NATO treated it as a signal to take advantage and continue dismantling the country (referencing earlier unkept assurances about non-expansion).

Sry, but we as a societey have lost the great works of art that were propaganda posters, please if any president is reading this, fuking bring them back!!!! (But don't make them with ai tho, pay a fuking artist what they deserve)