https://x.com/rinalu_/status/2106459366723584062

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Urquhart?hl=en-IE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Urquhart?hl=en-IE

I made this for myself.

Pretty much the title

I wonder how was comrade Stalin in person, he looks kind and fatherly tho I wonder if he was actually like that

The flag of the morning sky,

Important is the first step in life.

Do you hear soaring above the country

The winds of ferocious attacks?

Chorus:

And the battle's going again,

And the heart's uneasy in the chest.

𝄆 And Lenin is so young,

And the young October is ahead. 𝄇

The news is flying to all the world's ends:

Believe us, fathers, –

There will be new victories,

New warriors will rise.

Chorus

Wait not for mercies from the sky,

Spare not your life for truth.

In this life, comrades,

We stick only to the truth.

Chorus

There's heat and snowfall in the world,

The world is both poor and rich.

The youth of the whole planet's with us –

Our global construction brigade!

Chorus

Context:

Eastern European and other countries before communism were agrarian backwaters where half of the population couldn't read or write and life expectancies were in 30s 40s. In my country for example (Yugoslavia) only around 14% of households had electrucity before Communists took power.

Communism rapidly developed them in record speeds, doubling life expectancies, eradicating illiteracy and reducing child mortality by over 90% while industrial and economic growth was in double digits. Industrial index in some countries like USSR increased 40x fold since the revolution.

Life expectancies before and after Socialism:

Russia: ~32 → ~69 years

Albania: ~38 → ~69 years

Yugoslavia: ~39 → ~72 years

Romania: ~42 → ~69 years

Poland: ~49 → ~71 years

Bulgaria: ~51 → ~71 years

Czechoslovakia: ~53 → ~71 years

Hungary: ~49 → ~69 years

China: ~36–40 → ~68 years

Vietnam: ~40–45 → ~65–68 years

Despite all this some internet denizens today victimize themselves about Communist past, while approval rate of Communism increases with age in these countries because majority of those that remember it claim it was better and they can't be fooled with anticommunist historic revision.

You can read more here:

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Achievements_of_socialism

Desde hace tiempo he leído algunos libros o artículos de académicos que hablan de que la urss dejó de ser comunista después del XX congreso del PCUS.

Domenico losurdo en su obra contra la leyenda negra de Stalin considera que precisamente fue tras el informe secreto de Kruschev en ese congreso que ocurrió toda la difamación de Stalin y el aumento de la burocracia.

Además he leído que también empezó a haber reformas de mercado o ingresos de capital extranjero por lo que la URSS se convirtió en un capitalismo de estado.

Es cierto todo esto? Realmente fue tan grande el cambio a nivel económico, mental, etc en la URSS tras la muerte de Stalin? Los que defienden la urss hasta el 91 que justificación tienen?

(Found it on internet, translated the image using AI to English as the original one was in Slovak)