Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Although the official inauguration occurred in 1945, the holiday became a non-labor day only in 1965, and only in certain Soviet republics.
The German Instrument of Surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by Alfred Jodl (chief of staff of the German OKW) for Germany, Walter Bedell Smith, on behalf of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and Ivan Susloparov, on behalf of the Soviet High Command, in the presence of French Major-General François Sevez as the official witness.
Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, and because Susloparov, a relatively low-ranking officer, was not authorized to sign this document, the Soviet Union requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin.
A second surrender ceremony was organized in a surviving manor in the outskirts of Berlin late on 8 May, when it was already 9 May in Moscow due to the difference in time zones.
During the Soviet Union's existence, 9 May was celebrated throughout it and in the Eastern Bloc. Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics between 1946 and 1950, it became a non-working day only in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SFSR in 1965
The celebration of Victory Day continued during subsequent years. The war became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.
Victory Day in modern Russia has become a celebration in which popular culture plays a central role. The 60th and 70th anniversaries of Victory Day in Russia (2005 and 2015) became the largest popular holidays since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Bit idea: Christian Fundamentalist who thinks all Italians go to hell because the Romans killed Jesus
Roman Catholics showing up in the Elysium fields because their ancestors killed another pantheon's god: "Well this is pretty much what we were after anyway"
Yeah why don't they get angry at Italians that's a really good point the Jews literally didn't kill him lmao how have I never interrogated that claim before
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He was executed in a roman fashion (cruxifiction) as opposed to stoning and the Historian Josephus says that it was Pontius Pilate that sentenced him, who was historically recorded as a hardass who frequently executed religious figures in Judea who were suspected of sedition
Crucifixion was also a sentence for treason if you jive with the theory that he was executed for hanging out with sicarii revolutionaires. Sicarii were notorious for walking up to romans and roman collaborators on busy market days, shiving them with a sica dagger (hence the name) then calmly walking away before anyone noticed. There's a good chance that the "iscariot" in Judas Iscariot is related to him being a sicarii.
Oh boy I cant wait to vote in November! Look at all the choices we have! We have the dessicated corpse; we have the bloated corpse, and we even have a corpse infested with worms? So many options to choose from!
The "Hexbear guide to types of guys" provides a valuable resource to gender researchers. After the sudden collapse of the Manosphere in 2027 nearly 95% of guys ecodiversity was lost and the "Guide to Types of Guys" is one of the most complete resources remaining from that era.
\o/ This is my 3 month anniversary of not being homeless. I have established residency rights! I can't be kicked out without notice!
CBT is generally pretty effective for anxiety, but it's a little bit funny the methodology is kinda "you gotta be a facts and logic guy to yourself". Like for health anxiety a part of it is essentially going "look body, you're being ridiculous right now. It may FEEL like a heart attack but that's just statistically improbable for my age and general cardiovascular health"
Bringing up my medical record so my brain can see how silly and owned it is.
Hmm yes too worried about the testicular pain to be worried about anxiety
Testicular pain can be serious. If you're having sudden sharp pain you should go to the er so they can remove them
Testicular pain can be serious. If you're having sudden sharp pain you should go to the er so they can rule out testicular torsion.
The year is 2024 and there are motherfuckers out there who actually believe you could nurture a child "too much" (ie. not abuse them enough, which is conservatives' favorite way to "raise" children)
Where I'm at that's, sadly, the dominant view. I moved back down South (US) and had a small bit of culture shock. There are billboards along the road with the "spare the rod, spoil the child" plastered on them. Sick shit that's way too normalized.
I've had to Uber lately to get to work and the conversations with people tend to turn toward an unpleasant side. One told me how we have to spank (best) our kids "just a little bit"
Off topic, but related to Uber drivers. One talked about how he wants to go to school to study Ukraine (he apparently has 'charities' for Ukraine) and told me how you "can't learn anything" in school nowadays because of "these protestors"
Another talked about all the antisemitism he has been experiencing since the Genocide started
And another guy was an Indian Christian who praised Modi
Every trip is like a ride from hell, and they've been a bit too on the nose lately with their hellishness
I once had an Uber driver in the UK who asked “oh you’re Chinese, what do you think of Falun Gong” and then when I told him they were a dangerous CIA funded cult he said “I just joined last week”
Haha ooi :/ You can't escape seeing them. Walking around a city you'll members of their cult doing their exercises, and every business has a poster for their "China before communism" performance. You'll see billboards for it too. Vile stuff.
I did see one anti Fulan Gong stand set up in NYC though, it warmed my heart.
Based on important theory text "tower of the elephant" by extremely not racist guy re howard (i am lying he was super racist) i think it should be okay to invade cults, kill their high priest and their giant murder snake, set the drapes on fire, then escape with all their silverware and jewels.
There are billboards along the road with the "spare the rod, spoil the child" plastered on them. Sick shit that's way too normalized
I’ve seen these while visiting family in rural Texas and it’s just wild to me that someone was like “hell yea let’s devote a few hundred bucks to remind people to beat their kids!” lol tf
It's a tragicomedy driving through the south and seeing giant JESUS signs on every dilapidated barn. But then it takes a dark turn with signs like "HEAVEN HELL Do you know where you're going", and billboards that actually promote "white pride". Sick place :(
lot of racism
I’ve never seen it personally but urban legend has it in vidor Texas, famously a sundown town, they used to have a billboard that said something to the effect of “don’t let the sun set on your black ass in vidor Texas”
Idk how much of that is just urban legend but what is for sure is the klan had a pretty strong political presence there with several members sitting in local governance positions and of course the police
I wouldn't put it past them. The racism is very casual and nobody thinks twice when speaking that way. I wouldn't be surprised if s small down has a sign like that. My own small town has a "All Lives Matter" sign up on entering. I have many stories from growing up down there, and I've heard some bad shit from my own family. I've been having a minor culture shock with how ... different.... (white) people are down South after returning for some time. Though I don't want to come across like I'm saying only the Southern US has these problems, and my experience is just a small sliver of it all.
Alright betting pool on who the next driver from whell will be, I'm betting it all on Falun Gong
I heard somewhere that the "rod" is the shepherd's crook used to guide sheep, pull them out of thornbushs and ponds, and fend off wolves. To spare the rod is to deprive them of guidance and protection, but somehow christian fascists made it about physical abuse.
I haven't studied the Bible so I don't have authority to speak about the original text. I've heard that before, but I've also heard that this interpretation is a "explanation" and leans more toward apologetics. It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure myself. I may look into it. There are other verses too in the Bible about physical abuse of children though, e.g. Pro 23:13-14, but idk of the original interpretations of those either.
But regardless, fascists will twist whatever can be found in the Bible.
r*ddit is the fucking worst. site already sucks and is borderline unusable, but now there's a smug fedora mascot that stops you if you try to view anything without being signed in
fuck landlords
fuck cars
fuck USA claiming they won WW2 and not the SovietsExplaining to my fucking lib cat that she should stop meowing at her treat bag when there is already existing treats (AET) in her bowl.
Howwwwwwwww do yall have energy at any point in your lives? I'm so. Tired. All. Of. The. Time. 6 hours, 8 hours, 10 hours of sleep, I usually feel just the same, slogging through everything. I'm taking a super extended vacation from work and even then it seems to have done nothing for my energy. I woke up today motivated to go ride my bike or go to the gym and get out, but I woke up already ready to go back to sleep, so fucking exhausted. How do I fix??? I'm autistic and believe I have adhd but I'm unmedicated and it's kinda like not really worth being alive if I can't even muster the energy to do this I enjoy
Can we talk about how much worse Google Drive has gotten at file organization? I swear that ten or twelve years ago you’d open google drive on your computer and there it’d be, with all your files and folders laid out like windows file explorer.
In 2024 google drive that google file explorer is still there, but it’s not the first thing I see when go to the drive. Instead it has me on something called “home” which has all my files there, no folders. You can also switch to folder, but now you can’t see your files. Why? Ah, but you can still click on “My Drive” so all’s well. But you better not click the wrong option or else we’ll take you to an entirely different app called Google Docs, which has all the docs in your drive in it.
It’s just as bad on IOS. If I open my google drive it opens to home, and I’ve got to actually tap files to see my files arrayed in a way that makes sense. Then if I actually open a doc it has to open the Google Docs app. On the main screen of the google docs IOS app I can see all the docs from my drive, arrayed in a completely different way from how I’d like. I hate it all. On IOS why isn’t the word processor built into the google drive app? Why does google insist on showing me a big list with literally all my files on it, that’s not helpful.
