That documentary I watched has now gotten me in the mindset that I want to explore Russian/Eastern European rock music in general during the Soviet era which I have never once listened to beyond a punk band or two. If you know anything about the subject, drop me some recommendations.
#history #music #rock #rockmusic #russia #soviet #sovietunion #alternative #punk #newwave
SOVIET AVIATION 2 ( Perturbator - god complex )
Today in Labor History November 19, 1943: The Nazis liquidated the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt. They typically forced inmate musicians to play Tango of Death during hangings and fox trots during tortures. Simon Wiesenthal was one of the survivors of Janowska. Overall, the Nazis murdered 40,000 in this camp, alone, and a total of 200,000 residents of the Janowska region. The Soviet liberators of the camp found crushed bone buried to a depth of six feet. The photograph shows the bone crushing machine, with Jewish inmates who were forced to operate it.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #nazis #antisemitism #racism #torture #concentrationcamps #ukraine #jewish #soviet
![Survivors of a Sonderkommando 1005 unit stand next to a mill used to crush bones at the Janowska concentration camp following its liberation in 1944. By Jewish prisoners forced to work for a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp ushmm.org [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76080171](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/577/627/242/267/606/original/6630fa6267cc5547.jpg)
CJ Plus – Caucas Groove. II Parts (Rare Vinyl 70s)
#2step #Armenia #Azerbaijan #Electronic #Georgia #Speedgarage #caucasian #ghettotech #hardhouse #raregrooves #samples #soul #soviet #sovietgroove #vinyl #Odessa
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://cjplus.bandcamp.com/album/caucas-groove-ii-parts-rare-vinyl-70s
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1970, the #Soviet #Lunokhod1, the first robotic #rover on the lunar surface, landed at #MareImbrium. It was expected to operate for three months but functioned for almost 11 months. It used a solar array to get power during the day and polonium at night.
Today in Labor History November 17, 1947: Revolutionary and author Victor Serge died. Serge lived in Paris in the early 20th century, where he was loosely associated with the Bonnot gang of anarchist bank robbers, and where he collaborated with Raymond Callemin on the newspaper L’anarchie. He was in Barcelona during their anarchist uprising and contributed to the CNT’s newspaper, “Tierra y Libertad.” He went to Russia in 1918, initially in support of the communists. However, he quickly became disillusioned with the repressive, autocratic rule, criticized the party and was imprisoned. He wrote numerous books, including the classic “Birth of Our Power” and his autobiographical “Memoirs of a Revolutionist.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #Revolutionary #soviet #russia #barcelona #BonnotGang #paris #cnt #author #writer #books #fiction #novel #VictorSerge @bookstadon
Afghan guerillas during the Soviet War in Afghanistan, 1980
On 15 Nov 1988, 37 years ago, the #Soviet #space #shuttle #Buran made its first and only flight.
In 2013, I found an interesting piece of #history of the #ColdWar and wrote why Buran looked like a copy of the US Shuttle. (TL;DR: arms race/paranoia.) #HistSciTech
jmkorhonen.net/2013/11/18/s...
Space system “Shuttle,” part o...
“Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen”*…
We’ve certainly come a long way since the ancient Greek atomists speculated about the nature of material substance, 2,500 years ago. But for much of this time we’ve held to the conviction that matter is a fundamental part of our physical universe. We’ve been convinced that it is matter that has energy. And, although matter may be reducible to microscopic constituents, for a long time we believed that these would still be recognizable as matter—they would still possess the primary quality of mass.
Modern physics teaches us something rather different, and deeply counter-intuitive. As we worked our way ever inward—matter into atoms, atoms into sub-atomic particles, sub-atomic particles into quantum fields and forces—we lost sight of matter completely. Matter lost its tangibility. It lost its primacy as mass became a secondary quality, the result of interactions between intangible quantum fields. What we recognize as mass is a behavior of these quantum fields; it is not a property that belongs or is necessarily intrinsic to them.
Despite the fact that our physical world is filled with hard and heavy things, it is instead the energy of quantum fields that reigns supreme. Mass becomes simply a physical manifestation of that energy, rather than the other way around…
Modern physics has taught us that mass is not an intrinsic property: “Physics Has Demoted Mass.”
* Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
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As we watch all that is solid melt into air, we might spare a jaundiced thought for Trofim Denisovich Lysenko; he died on this date in 1976. A Soviet biologist and agronomist, he believed the Mendelian theory of heredity to be wrong, and developed his own, allowing for “soft inheritance”– the heretability of learned behavior. (He believed that in one generation of a hybridized crop, the desired individual could be selected and mated again and continue to produce the same desired product, without worrying about separation/segregation in future breeds.–he assumed that after a lifetime of developing (acquiring) the best set of traits to survive, those must be passed down to the next generation.)
In many way Lysenko’s theories recall Lamarck’s “organic evolution” and its concept of “soft evolution” (the passage of learned traits), though Lysenko denied any connection. He followed I. V. Michurin’s fanciful idea that plants could be forced to adapt to any environmental conditions, for example converting summer wheat to winter wheat by storing the seeds in ice. With Stalin’s support for two decades, he actively obstructed the course of Soviet biology and caused the imprisonment and death of many of the country’s eminent biologists who disagreed with him.
Interestingly, some current research suggests that heritable learning– or a semblance of it– may in fact be happening, by virtue of epigenetics… though nothing vaguely resembling Lysenko’s theory.
#biology #genetics #history #lamarck #lysenko #mass #matter #physics #science #soviet
The first Earth spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet was launched on #ThisDayInHistory in 1965. The #Soviet probe #Venera3 hit #Venus on 1 March 1966. The failure of systems to operate fully was investigated and later probes touched down correctly and returned data.
#ValeryKhodemchuk died at #Chernobyl NPP in 1986 and there is a cenotaph honoring him in #moscow #russia and now the #nazi #regime in #kremlin has murdered his widow #NataliiaKhodemchuk on the 14th of #November 2025 with a #shahed drone into her home in #Kyiv #Ukraine
This is how #ruzzia awards those who served the #soviet union, the #communist society that they pretend to be the successor state of (legally the soviet unions successor state is Kazakhstan).
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1988, the #Soviet #Buran shuttle made its only flight. A great advance on the American orbiter, it had a larger capacity and was fully automated -- its orbit and landing were unmanned. The collapse of the USSR left no money for space so it was left to rot.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1971, #NASA probe #Mariner9 narrowly beat #Soviet #Mars2 mission to become the first human spacecraft to enter #Mars orbit. During its operational history it mapped 85% of the surface, took 7300+ photos, and identified 20 #volcanoes, exceeding its goals.
November 14, 1973: The Athens Polytechnic uprising began, a massive student protest against the Greek military junta of 1967–74. Up to 420 civilians were killed, including several children. Slogans and banners were anti-NATO and anti-American, and likened the Greek Junta to the Nazis. The pro-Soviet Marxist student groups A-AFEE refused to participate. Leftists and Anarchists initiated a sit-in, demanding the abolition of capitalism. Other student groups only demanded a restoration of democracy.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #greece #anarchism #students #nato #soviet #communism #massacre
Did you know that #Soviet #Russia had more "schizophrenic" people than any other Western country?
Do you think that democratic reform is a good way to update institutions? Do you think that communist ideals are questionable?
If so, you may suffer from "sluggish #schizophrenia", a bogus mental disorder diagnosed in Soviet dissidents.
Other symptoms include: pessimism, optimism, sensitivity, & stubbornness.
It's still used for modern dissidents of #Putin exhibiting "delusions of reformism".
Today in Labor History November 13, 1947: The USSR completed development of the AK-47, or Automatic Kalashnikov, 1947. Today, 70 years later, it remains one the most popular rifles in the world due to its low cost and reliability, even under harsh conditions. This has also made them the weapon of choice for rebel and guerilla armies.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #ak47 #soviet #guerilla #kalashnikov
#Soviet paratrooper Nina Kamneva, January 1936. She was best known for breaking the #worldrecord for a free fall #parachute jump in 1934. Photo by Ivan Shagin.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #Sanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #Progressives
@jakebroe repeat of the #warcrimes that #soviet #russia made in #Afghanistan so nothing new from the #nazi #regime in #kremlin
