11/29 is my birthday pog. Short paragraph mega for myself w/o giving personal information ig
Lydia Karch, born on this date some years ago, formerly known as none of your business, is an American trans woman, communist, and extremely cool person. Her notable achievements include megathread making and :posting: and stuff that would be easy to doxx her with. She's been playing piano for the majority of her years, and plans to do it semi-professionally, with some career in Mathematics as her main option. She also plans on starting hrt in like a year and half pls :pray-against:
Lydia Litvyak, a :hero-of-socialist-labor: , was born in Moscow on the 18th of August 1921. She was a fighter pilot during World War II, becoming the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft, the first of two female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot. Historians estimate for her total victories range from five to twelve solo victories and two to four shared kills in her 66 combat sorties.
Lydia became interested in aviation at an early age. At 14, she enrolled in a flying club. She performed her first solo flight at 15, and later graduated from the Kherson military flying school. She became a flight instructor at Kalinin Airclub, and by the time the German–Soviet war broke out, had already trained 45 pilots.
Litvyak flew her first combat flights in the summer of 1942 over Saratov. In September, she was assigned to the 437 Fighter Regiment, a men's regiment fighting over Stalingrad. On 10 September she moved along with Yekaterina Budanova, Mariya Kuznetsova and Raisa Belyaeva, the commander of the group, and accompanying female ground crew, to the regiment airfield, at Verkhnaia Akhtuba, on the east bank of the Volga river. But when they arrived the base was empty and under attack, so they soon moved to Srednaia Akhtuba. Here, flying a Yak-1 carrying the number "32" on the fuselage, she achieved considerable success. Boris Yeremin (later lieutenant general of aviation), a regimental commander in the division to which she and Budanova were assigned, saw her as "a very aggressive person" and "a born fighter pilot".
Restored Messerschmitt Bf 109G: The first fighter shot down by Litvyak was an aircraft of this type, flown by Luftwaffe ace Unteroffizier Erwin Meier. In the 437th Fighter Regiment, Litvyak scored her first two kills on 13 September, three days after her arrival and on her third mission to cover Stalingrad, becoming the first woman fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft. That day, four Yak-1s with Major S. Danilov in the lead attacked a formation of Junkers Ju 88s escorted by Messerschmitt Bf 109s. Her first kill was a Ju 88 which fell in flames from the sky after several bursts. Then she shot down a Bf 109 G-2 "Gustav" on the tail of her squadron commander, Raisa Belyaeva. The Bf 109 was piloted by a decorated pilot from the 4th Air Fleet, the 11-victory ace Staff Sergeant Erwin Meier of the 2nd Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 53. Meier parachuted from his aircraft, was captured by Soviet troops, and asked to see the Russian ace who had shot him down. When he was taken to Litvyak, he thought he was being made the butt of a Soviet joke. It was not until Litvyak described each move of the fight to him in perfect detail that he knew he had been shot down by a woman pilot. But according to other authors, the first air victory by a female pilot was achieved by Lieutenant Valeriya Khomyakova of the 586th Regiment when she shot down the Ju 88 flown by Oblt.
On 14 September, according to some authors, Litvyak shot down another Bf 109. Her victim was probably Knight's Cross holder and 71-kill experte Lt. Hans Fuss (Adj.II./JG-3), injured in aerial combat with a Yak-1 on 14 September 1942 in Stalingrad area, when his G-2 fuel tank was hit, his plane somersaulted during the landing when he ran out of fuel flying back to base. He was critically injured, lost one leg and died of his wounds 10 November 1942. On 27 September, Litvyak scored an air victory against a Ju 88, the gunner having shot up the regiment commander, Major M.S. Khovostnikov. Possibly Ju 88A-4 "5K + LH" of Iron Cross holder Oblt. Johann Wiesniewski, 2./KG 3, MIA with all crew members. Some historians credit it as her first kill.
Litvyak, Belyaeva, Budanova and Kuznetsova stayed in the 437th Regiment for a short time only, mainly because it was equipped with LaGG 3s rather than Yak-1s, that the women flew, and was lacking the facilities to service the latter. So the four women were moved to the 9th Guards Fighter Regiment. From October 1942 till January 1943, Litvyak and Budanova served, still in the Stalingrad area, with this famous unit, commanded by Lev Shestakov, Hero of Soviet Union.
On August 1, 1943, Litvyak did not come back to her base at Krasnyy Luch. It was her fourth sortie of the day, escorting a flight of Ilyushin Il-2 ground-attack aircraft. As the Soviets were returning to base near Orel, a pair of Bf 109 fighters dove on Litvyak while she was attacking a large group of German bombers. Soviet pilot Ivan Borisenko recalled: “Lily just didn’t see the Messerschmitt 109s flying cover for the German bombers. A pair of them dove on her and when she did see them she turned to meet them. Then they all disappeared behind a cloud.” Borisenko, involved in the dogfight, saw her the last time, through a gap in the clouds, her Yak-1 pouring smoke and pursued by as many as eight Bf 109s.
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Happy birthday lydia :party-sicko:
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The world is ending and I'm scared all the time someone pls hug me :ohnoes:
made my chud uncle cry at thanksgiving lol I told him he deserved to get fired for not getting vaccinated
I just sold a beautiful painting on craigslist to an older guy who turned out to be a leader in my small-town local radical union chapter, whose strike fund I had donated to in 2020. He was super stoked to hear it. I've looked him up and he's in some local papers giving interviews on the picketline. Just a fucking super wholesome encounter and I've been smiling all day about it :cat-com:
EDIT: He also asked me if I was in :DSA: which is pretty sick to hear
"Barbados is set to become the world's newest republic on Tuesday.
The island nation will remove the Queen as its head of state and swear in its first ever Barbadian president. "
:isaac-pog:when I lived in a major European city, getting groceries was just an activity I did, usually on my walk back from work
in every major US city I have lived in, its been an awful chore that has to be done and I put it off until the very last moment because I have to get in my car and drive 5-25 min to the grocery store and then drive back and risk dying to either a person going 30 over the limit and on their phone or a 1000 year old boomer that cant see who has to drive because there are no reliable busses or trains and because there is only one grocery store in 15 mile radius and because-
I have reached the "not knowing how to cook is misogyny" part of leftist Twitter and I want to get off this wild ride
I don't want to go to work today someone break my legs pls so I don't have to
"You'll get more conservative as you get older."
Is a line said by people who chose to remain ignorant on things they don't know. In my 30's I actually sat down and looked into leftism, what leftists believe and want, and sure enough, it clicked with me and aligned with my views! I think that quote really means that ignorant people will never bother looking into anything they don't like and as they get older will dig their heels in even more.
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Shoplifting groups are funny because any notion of a social contract is dead so assaults on large profitable companies by poor marginalized people can be viewed as an act of revenge against a society that, in so far as it can even be called a society, exists only to do violence to the poor and marginalized. It is what the comedians call punching up.