Jamie Fox took some advice from the 1980’s Soviet Government in his song Blame It (On the Alcohol) when he says: Blame it on the vodka Blame it on the henny Blame it on the blue top Got you feeling dizzy Blame it on the a a a a a alcohol The Soviet government in the late …
“Surely you can’t be serious” ” I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.”
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All Airplane! jokes aside, the first round-trip flight from New York to Moscow was a huge step forward for US/ Soviet foreign relations. Aeroflot and Pan Am were symbols of Soviet and American airline strongholds respectively. Both had previously operated exclusively for their country of origin, so the partnership between the two marked a remarkable change in the …
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Zhukov and the Rise of the Generals
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Image source: Pavel Korin: Marshal Zhukov (1949) Source: Tarakhanov, Aleksei and Sergei Kavtaradze: Architecture of the Stalin Era. New York: Rizzoli. 1992. Stalin had a major problem on his hands: Germany was attacking from the west, and Stalin had purged or demoted most of his competent Generals. Fueled by fear of succession, Stalin attempted to rid …
The “Shocking” Workers of the USSR
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“Do you want to fight against the cold? Do you want to defeat hunger? Do you want to eat? Do you want to drink? Hurry and join the shock group of model labor!” Image Source The First-Five-Year Plan brought about many social, economic and cultural changes and it called for higher production rates among the …
Life in the USSR الحياة في روسيا
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Lenin Speaks to a Crowd of Muslim People in 1925 It’s no secret that Russia is surrounded by diverse cultures. To its West there is Europe, to its East there is Asia, and to its South, there is Central Asia and the Middle East- what was formerly the great Ottoman Empire. The Soviet Union comprised …
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Bloody Sunday: Massacre to Manifesto 20th century Russia was full of bloodshed. Between the World Wars, revolutions, and purges brought on by Stalin, millions of Russian lives were lost. Though civil unrest in Russia had been simmering for hundreds of years, the grievances of the working class came to a boiling point at the turn …
From Shackles to Sanctity
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Image source: PHOTO TAKEN BY SERGEI MIKHAILOVICH PROKUDIN-GORSKII (1863–1944) From its authoritative beginning to its revolutionary end, The Romanov Dynasty was synonymous with exile and death. The above photograph, taken by Sergei Gorskii in 1910, is of the iron shackles that bound Boyar Mikhail Nikitick Romanov during his 1601 exile in Nyrob. It was Tsar Boris Godunov who …
First Blog Post
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First blog post
