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I found this quite striking, imagine if a major news source like Time had released this image during the cold war period when communism was the west's big bad guy.
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52246015][T]http://cs6.pikabu.ru/post_img/2017/05/18/8/1495111810181674190.jpg[/T]
I found this quite striking, imagine if a major news source like Time had released this image during the cold war period when communism was the west's big bad guy.[/QUOTE]
Or like 4 years ago when the conservatives were trying their damnedest to paint Obama as a foreign communist implanted into our government by the NWO.
Now we literally have a guy who is in cahoots with Russia. Be careful what you wish for, I guess.
like everyone throughout history, he looked better without the neckbeard
I feel like Simon Stalenhags art has likely been posted here at least once, but I've been really digging it and thought I'd share some favorites.
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Some pictures of Stalin with his daughter, Svetlana:
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[img]http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/130/590x/SvetlanaStalin-582846.jpg[/img]
[img]https://zdf-enterprises.de/sites/default/files/catalogue/posterframes/stalinsdaughterkeyvisualos_1.jpg[/img]
"He would call her his 'little Sparrow.' He made up an imaginary friend for her and invented a game they played where she was his secretary and gave him orders."
I think my heart's going to melt. There's just simply something nice about knowing that even one of the coldest, most ruthless men had a warm, gentle side. Sounds weird, but it makes me want to see the "good" in all people, even if for some that is seemingly just a sliver.
Stalin is an interesting case. And we might owe him a whole lot.
Before Stalin came to power nobody really regarded him at all. He was really just this boring, colorless pencilpusher with a lot of old generals as his friends. Suddenly he was just in charge of everything, turns out he was exceptionally good at biding his time and knowing exactly what he needed to get what he wanted.
By all accounts he was quite a coward though, but he wasn't about to let the fascists get their hands on him, so he set to work organising the soviet people into a big miserable meatshield he could place between himself and hitler. There's a couple good books on the subject.
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52264495]Stalin is an interesting case. And we might owe him a whole lot.
Before Stalin came to power nobody really regarded him at all. He was really just this boring, colorless pencilpusher with a lot of old generals as his friends. Suddenly he was just in charge of everything, turns out he was exceptionally good at biding his time and knowing exactly what he needed to get what he wanted.
By all accounts he was quite a coward though, but he wasn't about to let the fascists get their hands on him, so he set to work organising the soviet people into a big miserable meatshield he could place between himself and hitler. There's a couple good books on the subject.[/QUOTE]
Stalin planned bank robberies, assassinations and hostage taking nearly the minute he joined the Bolsheviks. His previous job was working at a meteorologist's office, he took to planning and carrying out violence rather quickly.
He also let his son die at the hands of the Germans. The Germans wanted to trade Stalin's son for Field Marshal Paulus but Stalin said "Why would I trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant?"
And to give a little more insight on Stalin's personality, here's a quote from Ivan's War by Catherine Merridale
[QUOTE]In 1904 a group of comrades were out for a walk along a river swollen from spring rains. A calf, newborn, still doubtful on its legs, had somehow become stranded on an island in the middle of the river. One man, the Georgian "Koba"[Stalin called himself Koba after a character in The Patricide by Alexander Kazbegi] ripped off his shirt and swam across to the calf, He hauled himself out to stand beside it, waited for all the friends to watch, and then broke its legs.[/QUOTE]
No wonder he dropped out of seminary school
Rare blue lobster got off the coast here in Nova Scotia, Canada
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A typical Turkish classroom back in 1937
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What is that script above the latin text on the whiteboard?
[editline]23rd May 2017[/editline]
It almost looks like Futhark runes but its not and I've seen it before and its gonna bug the shit out of me
[QUOTE=Broguts;52266198]What is that script above the latin text on the whiteboard?
[editline]23rd May 2017[/editline]
It almost looks like Futhark runes but its not and I've seen it before and its gonna bug the shit out of me[/QUOTE]
Old Turkic runes. The phrase below the runes is essentially "God Bless Turkey".
On the topic of the Turks...
The Ottoman empire hosted a variety of imperial, or royal anthems since the 13th century. Generally as sultans came and went there would be different anthems.
However in a wave of reforms the first national anthem was adopted in 1844. It's really quite the piece, very regal and prestigious sounding:
[video=youtube;PSaa2A7csxM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSaa2A7csxM[/video]
Also, have a period recording of the last national imperial anthem:
[video=youtube;C50oYJCfJgM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C50oYJCfJgM[/video]
[QUOTE=Broguts;52266198]What is that script above the latin text on the whiteboard?
[editline]23rd May 2017[/editline]
It almost looks like Futhark runes but its not and I've seen it before and its gonna bug the shit out of me[/QUOTE]
It says "God bless the Turk" in Celestial Turkic.
[QUOTE=Broguts;52264605]Stalin planned bank robberies, assassinations and hostage taking nearly the minute he joined the Bolsheviks. His previous job was working at a meteorologist's office, he took to planning and carrying out violence rather quickly.
He also let his son die at the hands of the Germans. The Germans wanted to trade Stalin's son for Field Marshal Paulus but Stalin said "Why would I trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant?"
And to give a little more insight on Stalin's personality, here's a quote from Ivan's War by Catherine Merridale[/QUOTE]
Yeah i think stalin is in the running for literally the worst human being anywhere ever. Sure you get some way more out there people like Panzaram, but stalin is like if you gave Panzaram Jr a country sized cult to run with absolute authority.
There's some suspicion that Khrushchev and friends actually murdered/poisoned Stalin, because old uncle Joe was actively agitating to start world war 3 for no fucking reason at all.
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I find it really strange looking at a face like this and knowing that that this guy is directly and personally responsible for at least 80+ million deaths. One of his wives killed herself after dinner with stalin one night, her letter saying that it was "...partly political, partly personal".
So yeah, not a good dude.
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;52265488]
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Not 100% sure about this, but I read somewhere that they're blue because they are albino.
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52272639]Yeah i think stalin is in the running for literally the worst human being anywhere ever. Sure you get some way more out there people like Panzaram, but stalin is like if you gave Panzaram Jr a country sized cult to run with absolute authority.
There's some suspicion that Khrushchev and friends actually murdered/poisoned Stalin, because old uncle Joe was actively agitating to start world war 3 for no fucking reason at all.
[T]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/496xn/p02mqthy.jpg[/T]
I find it really strange looking at a face like this and knowing that that this guy is directly and personally responsible for at least 80+ million deaths. One of his wives killed herself after dinner with stalin one night, her letter saying that it was "...partly political, partly personal".
So yeah, not a good dude.[/QUOTE]
That picture is edited to make Stalin look more flawless. In reality he had pockmarks all over his face from severe acne as a kid.
Jupiter's south pole :
[IMG]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/17-051.jpg[/IMG]
[url]https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/a-whole-new-jupiter-first-science-results-from-nasa-s-juno-mission[/url]
[QUOTE=Broguts;52273486]That picture is edited to make Stalin look more flawless. In reality he had pockmarks all over his face from severe acne as a kid.[/QUOTE]
still a pretty killer head of hair though
[QUOTE=Cone;52274384]still a pretty killer head of hair though[/QUOTE]
beeeeew.
boo.
[QUOTE=27X;52274467]beeeeew.
boo.[/QUOTE]
you'll have to take my word for it when i say i didn't notice that
[QUOTE=Broguts;52273486]That picture is edited to make Stalin look more flawless. In reality he had pockmarks all over his face from severe acne as a kid.[/QUOTE]
Didn't he have some really horrible illness which disfigured his face, and withered his arm? Rather than just acne.
[QUOTE=Broguts;52273486]That picture is edited to make Stalin look more flawless. In reality he had pockmarks all over his face from severe acne as a kid.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://iliketowastemytime.com/sites/default/files/historical-photos-pt10-joseph-stalin-mugshot-1911.png[/img]
Oh yeah you weren't kidding. Can't deny his sense of style tho
[QUOTE=kittykaty;52274935]Didn't he have some really horrible illness which disfigured his face, and withered his arm? Rather than just acne.[/QUOTE]
No his arm got fucked up in a wagon wheel if memory serves. He was just young enough and it got fucked up enough that it didn't heal right.
[QUOTE=Hauptmann;52274382]Jupiter's south pole :
[IMG]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/17-051.jpg[/IMG]
[url]https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/a-whole-new-jupiter-first-science-results-from-nasa-s-juno-mission[/url][/QUOTE]
i find it so amazing that human history started probably around 12000 years ago, less than 200 years we started using electricity and today we have a machine that is taking pictures of a planet hundreds of millions kilometres away from us. the fact that in 12000 years of history we managed to achieve the progress we have of the last 200 years is mind blowing.
[QUOTE=Pat.Lithium;52276870]i find it so amazing that human history started probably around 12000 years ago, less than 200 years we started using electricity and today we have a machine that is taking pictures of a planet hundreds of millions kilometres away from us. the fact that in 12000 years of history we managed to achieve the progress we have of the last 200 years is mind blowing.[/QUOTE]
Well you can thank the ancient christians for burning the Library of Alexandria and flaying the scholars alive, delaying the rediscovery of classical reasoning by a thousand years. Otherwise you and me would probably be out there by now. Then again maybe it was a lesson we needed to learn.
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277163]Well you can thank the ancient christians for burning the Library of Alexandria and flaying the scholars alive, delaying the rediscovery of classical reasoning by a thousand years. Otherwise you and me would probably be out there by now. Then again maybe it was a lesson we needed to learn.[/QUOTE]
1) Christians didn't burn down the Library of Alexandria, nor did the library suffer "one great, destructive fire", but actual several that lead to its final destruction. The time of the first fire was prior to Christianity entirely.
2) The Library of Alexandria did not contain the sole schematics of countless technologies that were lost in its fires. Nor was "classical reasoning" lost then either. No idea how you came to that conclusion, else the modern day would have never heard of Plato, Aristotle or Socrates entirely, no?
3) Would love a source on the "flaying of scholars alive", let alone a source explain how widespread it was to have seriously impacted western philosophy.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52277389]1) Christians didn't burn down the Library of Alexandria, nor did the library suffer "one great, destructive fire", but actual several that lead to its final destruction. The time of the first fire was prior to Christianity entirely.
2) The Library of Alexandria did not contain the sole schematics of countless technologies that were lost in its fires. Nor was "classical reasoning" lost then either. No idea how you came to that conclusion, else the modern day would have never heard of Plato, Aristotle or Socrates entirely, no?
3) Would love a source on the "flaying of scholars alive", let alone a source explain how widespread it was to have seriously impacted western philosophy.[/QUOTE]
I had an inkling one of you busybodies were going to feel the need to argue.
I'm not that smart, and i'm probably going to get the details wrong. Though you cant fucking argue that the christians didn't smother secular intellectualism following their rise to prominence.
The Christian patriarch of Alexandria, cyril pretty much did nothing when his followers attacked the library and killed scholars, among them Hypathia of Alexandria, who was reportedly flayed alive.
I still don't see a source in that post
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