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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Illustration is OG wojak but substance is OG cereal guy.

He (Soviet power) will never last more than 2 weeks! cereal1

(Soviet system celebrates 15 years) cereal2

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Hahaha this is actually amazing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd love a translation, Cyrillic cursive is hard to read.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

On the left it says something like "Soviet authority will only last two weeks!" and then on the right it says "15 YEARS - the USSR is finally established on the path to socialism"

It isn't really cursive Cyrillic so much as just italic Cyrillic. I struggled with reading italics for a good while too, but eventually you get the hang of it.

Edit: Oh and the heads on the left are labeled "monarchist", "cadet", "eser", and "menshevik".

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cadet

Boot brain was a problem back then too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Boot brain" as in a fondness for licking boots due to a lifetime of propaganda...?

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ahhh, yes the mensheviks. The majority which name was the russian word for minority

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At the moment of separation of RSDRP mensheviks were in fact a minority of the party. And intersting enough, it's not the given name, that's what they named their faction after bolsheviks came up with their name.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They were minority nearly all time among the workers and party supporters in Russia. Mensheviks did attained majority in party congresses several times, but it's because they were usually happening outside Russia and mensheviks certainly had majority among the emmigrant inteligentsia. For example once they got a majority for few years because most bolshevik memebers of Central Comitte were arrested in Russia - something that was not happening to the mensheviks since they weren't in Russia.

They also didn't had the majority during the October Revolution. They did, but only together with SR's, during the February Revolution, but in subsequent months they squandered it by not fullfilling even the most basic promises of that revolution.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't even need to be cursive.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there was a color version of this on goskatlog.ru but the site doesnt work rn for some reason

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

oh, didn't know about the color verison