u/RussianChiChi

The Soviet Union, actually.

Да здравствует Советский Союз и его память!

Every time I see these fake wannabe “Marxist” NazBol created memes where the main political program is just hating LGBT people, I can’t take them seriously. Brother, Marx did not spend all that time analyzing capital just for you to reinvent 1950s Facebook boomer style conservatism with a Soviet profile picture.

Some of these ACP/NazBol types genuinely spend more time posting about gay people than they do talking about landlords, privatization, NATO, unionization, wages, homelessness, or imperialism. Tbh at that point you are not building socialism, you are just doing reactionary culture war politics and using our aesthetic to confuse and smear. Soviet aesthetics alone do not make someone a communist. Putting a hammer and sickle next to reactionary politics does not magically turn it into dialectical materialism.

socialist movements made have mistakes historically. Serious Marxists should be mature enough to acknowledge that reality instead of panicking every time history gets discussed. We are supposed to STUDY history. Learn from it. Improve from it. That is literally the point of dialectical development. The future socialist movements of the world are not going to survive by acting like every criticism is CIA propaganda, nor are we going to survive by abandoning socialism entirely. The answer is clearly to put our efforts and time into building something stronger, smarter, and more humane FOR EVERYONE!

The funniest part is that these reactionaries constantly accuse communists of being “divisive,” while they are out here trying to split the working class apart over identity and culture war nonsense like every five minutes. LGBT workers are workers. Period. The billionaires and bourgeoisie class does not care if you are straight, gay, black, white, trans, religious, atheist, Russian, American, or Martian. They will exploit you all the same if it keeps profits flowing.

Real socialist movements grow and bloom when people come together around class struggle and human liberation, it will not be when terminally online “patriotic socialists” spend 14 hours a day posting anti LGBT Wojak memes about who they think deserves solidarity. The future of our movement belongs to organizations capable of uniting people, not shrinking themselves into angry internet subcultures that seek to spread hate and division amongst the working masses.

The capitalists do that enough to us already.

One of the strangest products of Cold War historiography is the idea that the Soviet Union was somehow a passive recipient of victory rather than the primary force that destroyed Nazi Germany in Europe. Lend-Lease was important especially in logistics, transport, food, rail equipment, raw materials, and communications and serious historians acknowledge that. The amount is still debated but most land on somewhere around 4-6% of total Soviet wartime output was attributed to lend lease from the USA. But internet discourse has transformed “important support” into “the USSR only survived because America carried them,” which collapses the largest and bloodiest front in human history into a fantasy designed for Western self-congratulation.

The Eastern Front consumed the overwhelming majority of the Wehrmacht. The Red Army inflicted the bulk of German military losses, fought the decisive land battles of the war, and endured casualties on a scale almost incomprehensible today. At the same time, Soviet industry after relocating thousands of factories east of the Urals under invasion conditions produced enormous quantities of tanks, artillery, aircraft, ammunition, and small arms.

What makes the modern retelling so absurd is that it often reduces Soviet victory to trucks and canned meat while quietly ignoring Stalingrad, Kursk, Operation Bagration, the siege warfare, the factory evacuations, and the 27 million Soviet dead.

The United States played a vital role in the Allied victory, but the contemporary need to reframe the Red Army as dependent side characters says more about Cold War political mythology than it does about WWII history. Capitalist historiography is often comfortable acknowledging Soviet sacrifice only when it can also diminish Soviet agency.

The good guys lost the Cold War.

By BATISTA

r/ussr ultimate goal

Can this be considered Praxis?

@grok is a well educated comrade

The funniest thing about modern fascists is they genuinely thought they could rebrand Nazism through podcasts, memes, irony and “free speech absolutism.” Then Nick Fuentes starts talking about “breeding gulags,” Kanye drops a song called “Heil Hitler,” and suddenly everybody acts shocked that the mask came off.

These people want a generation raised ignorant of history because once you actually study what fascism did to the world, the millions dead, entire cities erased, industrialized racism turned into state policy, it becomes impossible to romanticize it unless your politics are completely rotten. Fascism is not the promised rebellion you should seek as a young independent individual. It is the final desperate tantrum of a collapsing capitalist economic system looking for scapegoats. As this has proven to work in the past.

But what do you do when the biggest scapegoat has killed its own self? When it finally gave in and joined your side, just for things to still get progressively worse and worse for just about EVERYONE! You lash out and create constant conflict to keep the military industrial complex churning.

That’s why anti-communists get so mad when people post anything Soviet Because deep down they know the symbol that survived history as the symbol of peace and freedom was not the swastika. It was the Hammer and Sickle. MOST everything anti-Soviet you see online is probably a U.S. government funded cia conspiracy psychological operation.

The new online fascists keep testing the waters because they think this generation is too distracted to notice. But people ARE noticing. Workers are angry. Young people are broke. Nobody can afford housing. Nobody trusts institutions anymore. And the second people start asking WHY, fascists appear to redirect that anger toward minorities instead of the system itself.

We are not stupid, if they want to bring gulags back we can, but not for disgusting degenerate women breeding grounds like these fascists want. These gulags will be to serve justice to the bourgeoisie, to the people who oppress the working class, take and abuse our children and not hold them accountable for doing so can no longer stand.

We need to wage war on them, for they have been waging war against us for far too long with far too little resistance.

He’s running from Berlin to tell, as if it has just happened :)

Forever grateful.

The red flag will fly again soon.

In honor of Victory Day, r/ussr has officially changed its community icon for the following day(s) of May 8th and 9th for the celebrations.

These days are not just about remembering a military victory. It is about remembering the unimaginable sacrifice of the Soviet people. Over 27 million dead. Entire cities burned to the ground. Families erased. Yet somehow, through industrial willpower, collective sacrifice, and absolute sheer determination, the USSR broke the back of fascism and raised the red banner over Berlin.

For all the anti-Soviet propaganda pushed online today, one fact remains impossible to erase from history: without the Soviet Union, the world we know today would look very different.

The new icon is our small way of honoring that legacy and the millions who fought, worked, suffered, and died defending humanity from fascism.

During the heroic assault on Berlin in the final days of the Great Patriotic War, soldiers of the 150th Idritsa Rifle Division of the Red Army carried the Banner of Victory into the Reichstag, the last stronghold of Hitlerite Germany. The mission of raising the flag was given to three men.

Those men were:

-Mikhail Yegorov, A Russian.

-Meliton Kantaria, A Georgian.

-Alexei Berest, A Ukrainian.

Together they raised the Victory Banner above the Reichstag under intense enemy fire.

The red banner flying over Berlin signaled to the world that fascism had been defeated through the sacrifice, unity, and courage of the Soviet people.

The Banner of Victory would become one of the greatest symbols of the 20th century and remains forever tied to the liberation of Europe from Nazi rule.

The Victory Day Flag Reads:

150 стр. ордена Кутузова II ст. идрицк. див. 79 ск. 3 УА 1 БФ

150th Rifle, Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class, Idritsa Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front.

Prove me wrong, I bet you can’t.