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Soviet @hexbear.net Alaskaball [comrade/them] @hexbear.net "Every kitchen maid must learn to rule the state" - Lenin
Poster by artist Ilya P. Makarychev 1925
Credit to Lady Izdihar for posting it on twitter
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Soviet @hexbear.net thelastaxolotl [he/him] @hexbear.net Luna 9 - New General Megathread for the 3th-6th of February 2025
Luna 9 (ะัะฝะฐ-9), internal designation Ye-6 No.13, was an uncrewed space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna programme. On 3 February 1966, the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon and return imagery from its surface.
Spacecraft
The spacecraft carrying on top the lander capsule, weighed together 1538 kg and was 2.7 meters tall. It commenced the main descent, shortly before its controlled impact it ejected the lander capsule. The lander had a mass of 99 kilograms (218 lb) and consisted of a spheroid Automatic Lunar Station (ALS) capsule measuring 58 centimetres (23 in). It used a landing bag to survive the impact speed of over 54 kilometres per hour (34 mph). It was a hermetically sealed container with radio equipment, a program timing device, heat control systems, scientific apparatus, power sources, and a television system.
The spacecraft was developed in the design bureau then known as OKB-1, under Chief Designer Sergei Korolev (who had
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Soviet @hexbear.net thelastaxolotl [he/him] @hexbear.net 102th Anniversary of the foundation of the USSR - New General Megathread for the 30th-31st of December 2024
It was established in 1922 as a union of four socialist republics created after the 1917 October Revolution, namely the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and Byelorussian SSR. The years that followed saw the addition of the Uzbek and Tajik SSRs; the Transcaucasian SFSR was dissolved in 1936 in favor of the elevated SSRs of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. From 1956 to 1991, the union comprised 15 member republics, two of which had their own member seats at the United Nations.
The USSR represented a groundbreaking political alternative for the working class as the first stable socialist state in history. This was remarkable especially in a time period where workers in the Western world were still struggling for basic union rights; the 1924 Soviet Constitution and the 1936 Soviet Constitution represented some of the most progressive political advancements in history.
The Soviet Union developed under extreme pressure from capitalist states and global imperialism;
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Soviet @hexbear.net thelastaxolotl [he/him] @hexbear.net Joseph Stalin - New General Megathread for the 18th-22th December 2024
Painting:The Great Oath
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, was born in Gori, Georgia on 21st December, 1879. was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922โ1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941โ1953).
The son of a humble Georgian shoemaker, at the age of fifteen Stalin entered the Orthodox seminary in Tbilisi on a scholarship, where he proved to be a brilliant student, although he was expelled when he was caught distributing propaganda for the Georgian Socialist Party, which he had joined in 1898.
While studying at the seminary he joined a secret organization called Messame Dassy (the Third Group). Members were supporters of Ge
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Soviet @hexbear.net TheModerateTankie [any] @hexbear.net Bioconstructor - Dancing by video (full album playlist)
Bioconstructor was a soviet synthpop band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1990.
Looks like this album was only available on reel to reel until the mid 90's when it got a full release.
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Soviet @hexbear.net TankieTanuki [he/him] @hexbear.net Soviet Deep Space Network Dish in Kalyazin, Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Deep_Space_Network
In 2010 it was refurbished and is now used by the local observatory.
https://sudonull.com/post/23009-The-forgotten-giant-TNA-1500-radio-telescope
The Kalyazin Observatory is engaged in radio-spectral astronomical research, pulsar research, as well as the search for galactic, extragalactic objects and the acquisition of data from cosmically distant satellites. The observatory has a permanent staff of 10 employees.
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Soviet @hexbear.net Kolibri [she/her] @hexbear.net Soviet Stamps
Just wanted to share some artwork from stamps from the USSR.
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Soviet @hexbear.net HelltakerHomosexual [she/her, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 1963 Soviet Short Cartoon "African Story" (subtitles included)
Soviet art and media was so far ahead of its time its insane. Lots of modern capitalists still depict Blacks with racist caricatures. Soviet cartoons in the 60s and before depicted the truth of imperialism and what oppressed peoples do in order to fight against it heroically.
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Soviet @hexbear.net thelastaxolotl [he/him] @hexbear.net "Comrade Trotsky", painting by Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon, 1920s
Im sorry stalinerds this is one of the most regime paintings