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1930's Moscow in colour, and other historical beauties
http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/201...f-moscow-1931/
I love old photographs, and damn Moscow was beautiful. There's so much historical material to go through.
Was? You asshole. My city is the most beautiful in the world.
Stalin was an asshole for destroying all of those historical buildings for no good reason.
Just saying.
...Dok je uprava gore, dronjav žitelj dolje, a vojska grdna zvijer na tankom lancu, bit će buna i pohara...
- Derviš Sušić
I haven't visited Moscow yet, so I'll have to take your word for it.
Thanks for the old photos of Moscow!
Thanks to Smyg for the link to the old photos!
A couple of the pictures were of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which was blown up under Stalin, and what was, reputedly, the world's largest swimming pool was then built on the site, IIRC.
Now the Cathedral has been rebuilt, and looks just like the old photos of the original, except brighter, so not all of the Stalin-era cultural destruction was final, which is nice.
I always wondered what GUM, the state department store, looked like; when I was studying Russian in college, GUM was mentioned in a dialogue we had to memorize.
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"I think the first step is to bail out the banks." Chomsky, on the US economic crisis
For workers' self-emancipation
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What?
How many did "he" destroy,except for Christ the Savior Catedral?
Fuck the old buidlings! It's the new ones that are interesting! Like the workers canteen No. 1. I mean - just look at that!
Or the House of Culture of the 'Kauchuk' factory.
"What is necessary is to go beyond any false opposition of programme versus spontaneity. Communism is both the self-activity of the proletariat and the rigorous theoretical critique that expresses and anticipates it."
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"...Stalinism is eternally condemned to govern capital, and the ideological dynamics of Stalinism are tied to this peculiar type of capital management; it is locked within this framework, reproducing the logic of capitalism under the veil of communism. For this reason, Stalinism, and its various derivatives, cannot accurately be regarded as communist if we choose to define it in materialist terms." - Tim Cornelis
All those new ugly things built since the fall are starting to blight the image, though. Those horrible abomination housing the new rich elites, such monstrous and blasphemous things they are, like enormous ugly acnes ruining the urban landscape. And don't forget that Moscow City development, that thing needs to be blown up.
khad, OHumanista, Smyg, Tenka, tir1944
From the list:
Paraskeva Pyatnitsa church
The Vladimir Gate
Iversky gate
Sukharev Tower
Christ the Savior Cathedral
...Dok je uprava gore, dronjav žitelj dolje, a vojska grdna zvijer na tankom lancu, bit će buna i pohara...
- Derviš Sušić
boo hoo the nasty communists knocked down a church oh no
Formerly zenga zenga !
That Worker's Club and the Canteen look fucking amazing!
One of the captions read:
I wonder what they sold there?
But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on
He had every reason.
Soviet Brutalist Buildings, 1970-1990, by Frédéric Chaubin
Soviet bus stops
Oh the architecture.
Bourgeois buildings built by the old ruling class were dynamited by Stalin! boo fucking hoo.
God forbid that when the revolution comes the English ever dynamite Buckingham Palace, cuz like, it's a cultural icon!
Yes, let's destroy everything ever made by people we don't like, regardless of historical value.
I like how this thread exemplifies the stupidity of the average ML.
Maybe the church (though I wouldn't justify that either. It gives us bad press ;D) But the Sukharev Tower for example.. It was a Moscow landmark, and it did no bad to anyone. Didn't have any religious bullshit tied to it, etc. It was just a building. A pretty looking building with a lot of historical value. And he ordered it to be destroyed.. For bullshit reasons.
Maybe I'm just overreacting because in the Yugoslav Wars, my city's landmarks were bombarded and destroyed, and tbh that hurts a lot. I dunno.
Just because a building was built in that period of time, it doesn't make it "bourgeois".. Bourgeois buildings.. lol.. nonsense.
...Dok je uprava gore, dronjav žitelj dolje, a vojska grdna zvijer na tankom lancu, bit će buna i pohara...
- Derviš Sušić
Yes, you are overreacting.
After the Berlin Castle got bombarded to shit during the war, East Germany chose not to rebuild it but to build the civic center of the nation, the Palace of the Republic, where it once stood.
After reunification, West German capitalists demolished the Palace of the Republic and replaced it with a replica of the feudal Berlin castle. The steel from the civic center was sold to Dubai wahhabis for the construction of the latest monument to their capitalist decadence, that half-mile high skyscraper.
Make no mistake. You demolish the edifices of bourgeois civilization or they will do the same to you and eat your bones.
I see no moral quandary in that.
COMMUNISM !