The Aurora is a Pallada Class protected cruiser, laid down at the Admiralty Shipyard in Saint Petersburg on May 23rd, 1897 and commissioned on July 16, 1903. The Aurora, having taken 6 years to complete, was already obsolete by the time it entered the Russian Navy. Part of the First Cruiser Squadron at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, it was one of only a handful of Russian ships to survive the battle, the Captain having turned around and sailed to the Philippines once it became clear the situation was hopeless.
The Aurora underwent a refit after the Russo Japanese War and spent most of World War One shelling German lines along the Baltic Coast. In 1916, it was moored in Saint Petersburg for another major overhaul. In 1917, the Aurora played its most famous role. Having been seized by a group of revolutionary Bolshevik sailors, it fired the blank shell that signaled the storming of the Winter Palace in the October Revolution, essentially the first shot of the Russian Civil War, and the beginning of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the precursor to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
After the civil war, the Aurora served as a training ship for cadets, briefly seeing action in the Battle of Leningrad in 1941, shelling German positions while docked in harbor before being sunk by air attack. Because the Aurora was in a shallow location, she was raised and salvaged at the end of the war. The Aurora was finally decommissioned in 1948, and became a museum ship in 1956, a role which she fulfills today. Even though she is a museum ship, and almost 120 years old, she is the ceremonial Flagship of the Russian Navy, in the same way that HMS Victory is in the UK and USS Constitution is in the US. Today, the Aurora sits moored in the very spot it was in 1917, with the forward gun pointed at the Winter Palace.
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Man, its so fucking tiring how literally everything trans people do is somehow giving fuel to transphobia, except when a trans person decides to make an argument about how its ok to be transphobic to the bad trans people because of some personal tragedy bullshit reason and then it has to be uncritically respected and coddled and you're a bad person if you just call that fucking bullshit and that there should never be a reason to be bigoted towards someones identity.
Probably sounds like incoherent ranting the way im describing it but long story short, got myself dragged into some unholy and unhealthy discourse off site, will not elaborate.
Nah this is 100% a thing. Dismissing people they agree with is silencing trans voices and citing anyone they don’t agree with is tokenism. And it’s transphobia to push back and not be civil, etc.
It’s word games to make you not only look like a bad person, but feel like a bad person