The tendency described here is more pernicious today than when #Boucher described it in 1996: “To put it crudely, the #environmental crisis is convenient in filling the vacant ideological role once played by the #proletariat, the #Soviet Bloc, & #ThirdWorld — as the agent of...

Today in Writing History May 22, 1967: Writer and activist Langston Hughes died. Hughes was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the early pioneers of Jazz Poetry. During the Civil Rights Movement, from 1942-1962, he wrote a weekly column for the black-owned Chicago Defender. His poetry and fiction depicted the lives and struggles of working-class African Americans. Much of his writing dealt with racism and black pride. Like many black artists and intellectuals of his era, he was attracted to communism as an alternative to the racism and segregation of America. He travelled to the Soviet Union and many of his poems were published in the CPUSA newspaper. He also participated in the movement to free the Scottsboro Boys and supported the Republican cause in Spain. He opposed the U.S. entering World War II and he signed a statement in support of Stalin’s purges.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackhistory #racism #lgbtq #CivilRights #Harlem #renaissance #communism #soviet #poetry #writer #BlackMastodon @bookstadon

If you still have any doubt that #Putin fully plans to recapture the entire #USSR, watch this.

Putin’s advisor Kobyakov begins to float the narrative that the USSR still exists, and subsequently the invasion of Ukraine is an internal conflict.

This will soon be the narrative employed regarding the Baltic states, Moldova and all former #Soviet satellites - unless the world finally stops it.

please learn about Russian and #Soviet #imperialism and please add peer reviewed facts in many languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_imperialism

"#Writer Sasha Vasilyuk was awarded on Tuesday the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for #Jewish #Literature for her debut #novel, “Your Presence Is Mandatory,” which explores the moral terrain of Jewish life in the #Soviet Union.

“I wrote this novel to honor voices nearly lost to silence and am immensely grateful and humbled that the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is paying tribute to this complicated #history and the people who lived it,” said Vasilyuk, who was inspired by her family history in #writing the novel."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/sami-rohr-prize-awarded-for-novel-about-jewish-life-in-soviet-union/

Atlas H376 – results for 2024 year and a little more, and red orchestra

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/05/atlas-h376-results-for-2024-year-and.html

#Istanbul talks showed #Putin aims for a grand diplomatic deal to restore #Russian dominance over post-#Soviet space, per Sky News.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-and-russias-istanbul-talks-were-symbolically-important-but-revealed-a-stark-reality-13369069

Today in Labor History May 18, 1928: Big Bill Haywood died in exile in the Soviet Union. He was a founding member and leader of both the Western Federation of Miners and the IWW (the Wobblies). During the first two decades of the 20th century, he participated in the Colorado Labor Wars and the textiles strikes in Lawrence and Patterson. The Pinkertons tried, but failed, to bust him for the murder of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg. However, in 1918, the feds used the Espionage Act to convict him, and 101 other Wobblies, for their anti-war activity. As a result, they sentenced him to twenty years in prison. But instead of serving the time, he fled to the Soviet Union, damaging his image as a hero among the Wobblies. He ultimately died from a stroke related to his alcoholism and diabetes. Half his ashes were buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. The other half of his ashes were sent to Chicago and buried near the Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument.

You can read my full article on union busting by the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/

The #russian #s400 air defense system seems to be no match for the #Chinese #CM400AKG missiles, the #Pakistani blew up one of the S-400 that #India had.

#ccp been quite happy with the small war between the two countries, as this been the first real test against #soviet #russian and older #western weaponry.

Source: https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/pakistans-use-of-chinese-hypersonic-missile-claims-to-destroy-indian-s-400-shifts-south-asias-military-balance/

Today in Labor History May 14, 1940: Emma Goldman (1869-1940) died in Toronto, at the age of 70. She had been raising money for anti-Franco forces in Spain. Goldman emigrated to the U.S. from Lithuania in 1885. The Haymarket Affair radicalized her and attracted her to the anarchist movement. She planned the assassination of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, along with her lover Alexander Berkman. However, Frick survived and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison. After that, she renounced “propaganda by the deed.” Nevertheless, she continued to agitate for women’s and workers’ rights and for anarchism. And she went to prison numerous times for “inciting to riot” and for distributing information about birth control. She also went to prison in 1917 for “inducing persons not to register” for the draft. When she was released, the U.S. deported her, and 248 other radicals, to Russia. She initially supported the “workers’ revolution.” However, after learning about the violent suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion by the Bolsheviks, she denounced the Soviet Union.

Soviet-era spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit.

@AssociatedPress reports: "The Russians indicated it came down over the Indian Ocean, but some experts were not so sure of the precise location."

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https://www.europesays.com/uk/94512/ Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashes into Earth 53 years after its failed mission to Venus #Kosmos482 #Science #soviet #Space #spacecraft #UK #UnitedKingdom

A failed #Soviet Venus lander's long space odyssey has come to an end.

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today after circling our planet for more than five decades.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/failed-soviet-venus-lander-kosmos-482-crashes-to-earth-after-53-years-in-orbit

https://www.europesays.com/uk/90524/ Soviet Spacecraft Crashes To Earth 53 Years After Launch — What To Know #Cosmos482 #Kosmos482 #Science #soviet #Space #U.S.S.R. #UK #UnitedKingdom #USSR #Venera