Book's last page aged like milk (it was published in 1945)
Moreover, with the defeat of Fascism in Europe, and (it is now safe to assume) completely friendly relations with Great Britain and the U.S.A. established, there will no longer be the pressing military need for devoting all the energies of the country to capital construction. It will be possible to satisfy the great and growing demand for consumers goods by a more rapid raising of the standard of living all round. And to this process there is no visible end.
This is almost as sad as the 1967 Soviet time capsules. Opened in 2017.
“The youth of our region is gifting you, the young ones of the 21st century, with Koryazhma that has been turned from a small village into a modern town within ten years, Severdodvinsk that we built on land that used to be swamps, and the colossal wood industry of the North: Kotlass, Solombal and Arkhangelsk factories. We know that you will have better lives than us,”
“You will do great things in our galaxy, will make our planet great. We are a little jealous of all you who are celebrating the centenary of our Soviet motherland. But we also know that you will be a little jealous of our restless young generation. We have a clear aim, a great future ahead of us and lots of things to accomplish. We have things that we can invest out hearts, brains, energy and labour in, and this is the source of our happiness.”
“You are the lucky generation: wars are just history”
“We paid a heavy price of millions of lives for our victory. And today, on 22 June 1969, on the 28th anniversary of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany on our Soviet country, we address you, those who don’t know what war is. We urge you to remember and respect the memory of those who gave their lives in the fight for socialism, who died defending the freedom of the motherland and European nations from foreign invaders. Guard like sacred relics the monuments we have built to commemorate those who died.”
“You’ve never had to chant: ‘Shame on the Israeli aggressors!’, you’ve never had to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, read news about provocations in revolutionary Cuba. How far away these events are from you! […] Young crowd of 2017! We are sure that you have justified the trust your heroic predecessors have invested in you, that you have created a new world.”
“Dear descendants, today you are celebrating a unique day: a hundred years of Soviet rule. […] We know our time is interesting, but yours is much more so. We are building communism and you live it. We believe that you have perfectly equipped our blue planet, colonised the Moon, landed on Mars; that you are continuing the exploration of outer space that we, people of the first 50 years, have begun, and that your ships are sailing across the galaxy. We believe you are holding talks about scientific and cultural collaboration with representatives of other galaxies, alien civilisations. We believe that the work that our fathers and grandfathers started 50 years ago and which we share, you will finish and bring to victory.”
Damn. I appreciate the optimism, but that's the worst prediction of all time.
Very generous of the authors that they didn't include the unelected and objectively anti democratic House of Lords
The only real functions of the house of lords are to block legislation for up to two years and to serve as a retirement home for politicians past their use-by date.
there's literally bishops and archbishops and shit in there, iirc it's split up into the lords temporal and the lords spiritual? wild shit "democracy"
"Voters" needs to be replaced with "Corporate consultants" for the British side
That local level split that socialist countries tend to do is very, very good. Farmers in China for instance express a ton of regional autonomy and have different laws regarding land ownership and use. It reminds me of how chuds try to defend the electoral college, saying it functions basically as a divide between rural and urban people, but in effect it's just stupid
So basically the entire population voted for the entire electorates. Do you have a source on this? Cause I'd love to learn more about it and refer to it if some chud claims it was a totalitarian dictatorship.
It's from Two Commonwealths as in the title
Edited it to make it clearer
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.247783/page/n27/mode/2up
Ah yes in liberal democracies you can vote for the fascist pro-cop party or the even more fascist pro-cop party. This is true freedom.
The cops are spying in real-time on every digital interaction anyone makes but fret not, come election day you can choose between those who loves the police state and those who are sexually aroused by it.
1 quotation, five citations. where does the fucking quote come from? padding your 'bibliography' does not help your case, it makes it look like you don't understand how to attribute a quotation, i do not know which or have any reason to believe all these sources support the quote
Reminds me of when I would pad bibliographies in high school, I'd just copy paste a bunch of sources like this completely unrelated to the essay to make it look like I did more research than I did.
Wait, did teachers not actually check whether your source material checks out or not?
I mean it makes sense from a work stance where you could be dealing with 20+ individual essays with at minimum average of 5 or so sources, the average person may say fuck that lmao
where you could be dealing with 20+ individual essays
They said High School, so that's 20+ per class
Nope. I tested it out, when reference the date I accessed a source, I would put dates like "Porktober" in there, never got any questions from the teacher. This was high school and not like uni or anything, so I'm guessing the teachers didn't care as long as I wasn't plagiarizing.
Man, I could've had an easier time in high-school if I wasn't so damn honest in my laziness back then
Got bored so I decided to check the books/authors.
Book #1 is written by a German who moved to South America after WWII. Fun starter.
Book #2 is from 1955, I can't imagine a Western author would have access to Soviet sources at that time.
Book #3 has one result when I google it, which is the wikipedia page you copied this from.
Article #4 is also before Soviet archives were open to the West, and is from some journal called "Slavic Review", which seems to specialize in Barry Goldwater esque psychoanalysis of Soviet leaders.
Book #5 is a collection of academic articles. Whoever added this citation does not appear to have actually read it, as the citation does not mention which article in the book is relevant.SUMMARY: 0/5, see me after class.
Hey, can we get a kind of ban where the post remains (so it’s easier to understand the dunks), but like we put a dunce hat on it or something? Obv posts that are hurtful to our trans or non-mayo comrades still get the
treatmentmodlog to the rescue:
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However, in practice, between 1936 and 1989, voters could vote against candidates preselected by the Communist Party only by spoiling their ballots, or by voting against the only candidate, whereas votes for the party candidates could be cast simply by submitting a blank ballot. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1642 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7 Carson, George Barr (1955). Electoral Practices in the U.S.S.R. F.A. Praeger. KOGAN, MICHAEL (2012). "SHAPING SOVIET JUSTICE: Popular responses to the election of people's courts, 1948-1954". Cahiers du Monde russe. 53 (1): 121–139. doi:10.4000/monderusse.9370. ISSN 1252-6576. JSTOR 23418027. Getty, J. Arch (1991). "State and Society under Stalin: Constitutions and Elections in the 1930s". Slavic Review. 50 (1): 18–35. doi:10.2307/2500596. JSTOR 2500596 Jessen, Ralph; Richter, Hedwig, eds. (2011). Voting for Hitler and Stalin: Elections Under 20th Century Dictatorships. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-3-593-39489-3.
Sounds almost identical to how American elections work with regards to how people can behave while voting or not voting, but caveat being that American politicians work for the capitalist class whereas Soviet politicians worked for the working class.
All I got from this comment is that Soviet democracy does work in practice because there's still all the dumb shit voters can do still being allowed.
