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October 31, 1961: Joseph Stalin’s body is removed from Vladimir Lenin’s Tomb, where his body had been on display. During the interim, Lenin’s body was propped up in the corner.
perpetually haunted by many of the things mr montefiore said in red tsar but in terms of phrases that just utterly blindsided me “Stalin’s feline charms” is still very high on the list
i’m reading this huge book about the 1930s purges and it has the absolute worst picture of stalin on its massive cover like no matter where i sit or how the book is angled his eyes are always on me and to make it worse he has this incredibly suggestive look in his eyes. every time i accidentally make eye contact with him i feel as though he’s sat beside me on the next bar stool and has just slid me a drink and is waiting for me to notice and catch his eyes and i know that if i accept the drink i accept everything else this temptress has in mind. i do not like it at all
i had to recruit help to decipher this and i’m still not entirely sure what to make of what i found. an interesting and harrowing theory. damning evidence.
Marina Raskova (1912-1943) was a Soviet pilot, navigator, and commander who founded 3 famous female air regiments during the Second World War.
Born to a middle-class Russian family, Raskova initially had aspirations of becoming a musician, but eventually abandoned the idea to study chemistry. While working in a dye factory as a chemist she met Sergei Raskov, an engineer, who she married and had a daughter with. She changed careers in 1931 when she joined the Aerodynamic Navigation Lab of the Soviet Air Force as a draftswoman. Aged 19 in 1933 she became the first female navigator in the Air Force and the following year became the first woman to teach at the Zhukovskii Air Academy.
In 1935 she divorced from her husband and focused on her flying career. She become a famous pilot as well as a navigator, setting a number of long distance records. This included the famous ‘Flight of the Rodina’ covering 6000km from MoscowtoKomsomolsk, which she conducted with two other female pilots, Polina OsipenkoandValentina Grizodubova. However the flight ran into difficulties at the end of its 26 and a half hour journey when poor visibility hampered the landing. As the navigator’s pit was vulnerable in crash landings, Raskova bailed out with a parachute while the two pilots completed the landing. She survived with no water and almost no food for 10 days before she found her way to landing site and reunited with her team. All 3 women were decorated with the ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ award, the first women ever to receive it.
With the outbreak of World War 2 the Soviet Union was in need of pilots and many women volunteered. However while there were no formal restrictions on Soviet women in the military, many found their applications were denied or mysteriously delayed. Raskova proposed the creation of women’s aviation units and used her celebrity status to propose the idea directly to the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Following a speech by Raskova in September 1941 calling for women pilots to be welcomed into the war, Stalin ordered the creation of 3 new air regiments, the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment, the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, and the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, dubbed The Night Witches. These regiments were entirely formed of women, from the pilots to the engineers to the support staff. Each regiment contained around 400 women, most of them in their early twenties, who completed 4 years’ worth of training in a matter of months.
Raskova personally took command of the 125th Bomber Regiment, for which she obtained the very best equipment available, including the state-of-the-art Petlyakov Pe-2 bombers, which caused some resentment from male units. The 125th regiment went on to fly 134 missions over the course of the war, dropping over 980 tons of bombs.
Raskova herself was killed on January 4th 1943, while attempting to lead two other Pe-2’s to a safe airfield. She was forced into making a forced landing on the Volga Bank, which resulted in the deaths of the entire bomber crew. Raskova received the first state funeral of the war and her ashes were buried in the Kremlin Wall beside those of fellow pilot, Polina Osipenko. She was posthumously awarded the Order of Patriotic War 1st Class and the regiments she created continued to serve for the duration of the war.
Nationalism is a disease on Earth that prevents the development of the dictatorship of the proletariat and must be wiped out. The only form of nationalism that is acceptable is in the form of Marxist-Leninist national liberation, similar to what the People’s Republic of China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and Cuba has experienced. As the hierarchy of capital grows, nationalism blinds the average citizen of the horrors of imperialism due to an increase in immediate material conditions. Nationalism is thus a coping mechanism for the have-nots, instead of a scientific outlook on the status of socioeconomic and political hierarchies. Nationalism shall not be tolerated in a communist nation and world, but it is important to manipulate and arrange current forms of nationalism to oppose imperialism and western chauvinism.
Snowball inequality is a very disgusting stain on the concept of meritocracy in the United States. The bourgeoisie are able to secure a good education through their accumulated wealth and network their children to universities and corporate internships through their personal connections whether it is through family or friends. This nepotism must be eradicated and instead the true proleteriat and peasant shall be prioritized for quality education. As a personal anecdote in my high school class, it is very disgusting how an average student was able to land an internship in UC Santa Barbara because their family member was a professor there. The existance of bourgeoisie nepotism is a direct action of class warfar, threatening the ability for the proletariat to secure a stable future in a capitalist society. This type of nepotism must be eradicated, and after the revolution the bourgeoisie must face mandatory re-education through the ministry of state security. The proletariat will rise and the homogenization of the bourgeoisie to the proletariat class will birth a nation with true equality, democracy, and meritocracy.
Stalin’s philosophy on International Communism differed from Trotsky’s, but it was imperative to build socialism in one country to improve the material needs for international socialism.
Despite the flaws of Soviet democracy, it was a democracy at its core and was tailored to improve the material conditions of the USSR. Soviet Democracy should not be mistaken as a utopia or a authoritarian hellscape, but a historic forms of government which had its pros and cons.
