Shishnarfne [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to art@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 years agoAlexander Samokhvalov - Soviet Woman Building the Metro (c. 1937)hexbear.netimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageAlexander Samokhvalov - Soviet Woman Building the Metro (c. 1937)hexbear.netShishnarfne [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to art@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 years agomessage-square0fedilink
minus-squareShishnarfne [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettopolitics@hexbear.net•I was reading about Brezhnev and came across this Guardian article from March 6th comparing Biden to Brezhnev and it's pretty interestinglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 years agoGood article, though it’s a bit unfair to call Brezhnev “frail and confused” when he won the trust of the nomenklatura: he was quite young really. He held power for 18 years and when he died he was still younger than Biden is now. linkfedilink
minus-squareShishnarfne [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettomain@hexbear.net•Yeah, I read theorylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 years ago Marxist Antifa-progenitors first arose in the Russian Revolution starting in 1917 So… anti-fascism predates fascism? What foresight, my admiration for Antifa keeps growing. linkfedilink
Good article, though it’s a bit unfair to call Brezhnev “frail and confused” when he won the trust of the nomenklatura: he was quite young really. He held power for 18 years and when he died he was still younger than Biden is now.