birth of the Soviet Union

nazi demise became inevitable

hard

problem solver

"When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.”

- Josef Stalin [1878-1953]

you think you have problems?

 Part 1

 

Part 2

 

Russian Mafia Advice

 

Wehrmacht

A German prisoner of war escorted by a Soviet soldier with a PPSh-41, 1943.

moral corruption and decay, with money as the object of principal importance.

 

prima ballerina

“To follow, without halt, one aim: there’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova [1881-1931]

forced into exile

"Estimates vary, but experts believe that at least 450,000 Grande Armée soldiers and perhaps as many as 650,000 ended up crossing the Niemen River to fight approximately 200,000 soldiers on the Russian side ... But less than 100,000 were around to retreat shortly after ... and with winter's onset, a small fraction made it all the way home."

how russia wil die

 

no hiding

 

how we got to here

 

defied the Soviets

"The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [1918-2008]

Russia-Ukraine

 

communal eating in the USSR

 

Home kitchens and dining were "discouraged" in favour of cafeterias.

A montage of 80s Soviet television visuals

“Tell me anyway. Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”

“Life is not an easy matter ... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” 

― Leon Trotsky [1875-1940], Diary in Exile, 1935

Anti-Marx

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” 

― Fyodor Dostoevsky [1821-1881], The Brothers Karamazov

Bolshevik

“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”
– Vladimir Lenin [1870-1924]