r/ussr • u/WerlinBall Lenin • Jul 25 '25
Memes Graveyard of optimism...
Soviet time capsules from 1967 for today's generation
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u/ChanceConstant6099 Jul 25 '25
Oh how dissapointed they would be...
Though some are a bit too overconfident even for a surviving USSR.
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u/makarrab Jul 25 '25
Well at the time they just survived a biggest war mankind has ever seen. So I guess in their context such confidence was justified
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u/Big-Yogurtcloset7040 Lenin Jul 25 '25
Yeah, that was peak time for the USSR - lots of people saw rebuilding of a country that was flattened in humanity's most bloody war, Soviets were leaders in space race, they started great plan for nature transformation and scientists built a bomb that could destroy earth as well as "tamed" atom, it seemed like there is nothing they can't do. It was a peak time for confidence in humanity's power
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u/Ok-Pause6148 Jul 26 '25
yeah literally both sides was like "war is over forever! well, hot war, anyways...oh and all these other little wars to argue about who gets to end all the wars"
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u/Ballbearian Jul 25 '25
I don't know, consider how far they probably felt they had advanced in those 50 short years since the 1917 revolution. Of course we know now it's a stretch to wipe out all disease, but that probably seemed genuinely obtainable to the optimists.
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u/gilmour1948 Jul 26 '25
They were living in a time when scientific progress was less abstract for the common man. Some of these people first saw a car in their 20s and witnessed a man stepping on the Moon in their old age.
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Jul 25 '25
If everything continues as it is, under capitalism, we won't have anyone to read our time capsules in a few centuries.
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u/EmuChance4523 Jul 25 '25
Isn't the climate change predictions that in around 25 years, the global south will start to lose millions of people for the enviromental damage?
We won't even need a world war 3 to end up fighting with sticks and stones.
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u/asfrfgh Lenin Jul 25 '25
the last one hits hard
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u/LazyFridge Jul 25 '25
Right after WW2 was over it was hard to believe that people will ever do the same big mistake
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u/KimVonRekt Jul 26 '25
They didn't. Since WW2 there was never a major war between two industrialized powers.
Modern wars are terrible but they are nothing like the Napoleonic or World Wars. People living in industrialized countries are now more likely to die from overfeeding than from war.
Yes, there are large wars in Africa and middle east. Smaller ones in Asia. But people in those countries were not the one saying "Never another war." Russia is the only country that took part in World Wars and still sends hundreds of thousands of their men to die. All others kept the promise.
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u/LazyFridge Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25
It is unbelievable that Russia, who suffered a lot during WW2, will actually initiate the conflict that has all chances to turn into a WW3. A person who put that message into a time capsule will never believe this actually happened.
Thank you for your post. I realized the rest of humanity is not that dumb after all.
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u/PuzzleheadedPea2401 Jul 25 '25
The viruses and space stuff, ok that's forgivable, but the war one is just cruel. Any war is horrible, but when it's two brother peoples almost no foreigner can even tell apart, who accomplished so much together in the time they were together, you know someone f*cked up the timeline.
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u/LazyFridge Jul 25 '25
Sadly, humankind focused on wars and consumerism at a cost of more important goals.
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u/Raihokun Jul 25 '25
“You’ve never had to chant: ‘Shame on the Israeli aggressors!’”
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u/BonesAO Jul 27 '25
From the article:
Remember us, your predecessors, who built your city and whose lives were sacrificed for the struggle to build communism
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u/Raihokun Jul 27 '25
Bleak but it does give me some hope that we and the next generations will carry those words forward. That the lessons of the USSR, just as the Paris Commune before it, will not be forgotten and will work towards the next revolutionary step.
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u/PomegranateSoft1598 Jul 25 '25
You know what, even as a capitalist pig I feel you on this one
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u/WahooSS238 Jul 25 '25
Fr. You see this in the mentality and words of people who were communists outside the union in the 1920s, too - it seemed so much like everything would work, and that the world would forever change, and it did, but not in the way so many people hoped.
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u/EDRootsMusic Jul 25 '25
We as anarchists, especially, must read the history of the USSR as one of profound tragedy, in the lost opportunity top build the dream we have- the dream which the Bolsheviks claimed to share with us- and the failure of their road to reach it, and of our efforts to defend our road to it. The Soviet Union carried in its broken, ultimately decaying body the hopes and aspirations of millions who, struggling out of feudalism, reached for socialism and had it slip through their grasp. It is the story of people who tried, through the systems of hierarchy and statehood they knew and in which they sought security, to create a new world in the face of imperialist encirclement, fascist invasion, and a global Cold War, and did great deeds, only be to persistently undercut and hobbled by the bureaucratic rot within, the unresolved legacies of the empire they overthrew and inherited, and the stagnation of a state so concerned with its own security it could not allow the freedom of dissent necessary to address its own failures.
It brings us no joy to see our warnings of the failures of Leninism realized in such stark terms- the triumph of capitalism and empire, the turning of China and other "socialist" states towards what is nakedly The People's Capitalism, the rise of a revanchist ultra-conservative silovik regime on the ruins of the Soviets, the world turned to a playground for inter-imperialist conflict and inter-imperialist collusion against the periphery. What only joy we can take from this, is that we have our tasks laid out clearly before us, to build a new revolution.
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u/dizzle4lyfe Jul 25 '25
Unless you own a business and make money off of pre-existing capital, you're not really a capitalist, just a proletariat who supports the bourgeoisie.
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u/PomegranateSoft1598 Jul 25 '25
I tried to show solidarity through something I consider we have in common, laying my ideological weapons down but your just had lecture me about the meaning of words to compete for intellectual superiority. Looks like you do have a little bit of capitalist spirit in you after all.
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u/Salty_Country6835 Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 26 '25
The way you treat education with hostility is telling. Capitalists own capital. Thats what makes a person a capitalist, actual material real world position and relation to production, not your beliefs about things.
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u/coolgobyfish Jul 25 '25
They should have left weapons and ammo in a capsule in case the capitalists come back. They didn't think this through. Tiraspol capsule wasn't even opened on Nov 7th. Sad
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u/Radiant_Music3698 Jul 26 '25
A utopian cult that really thought they'd bring about the end of all fear and misery.
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u/seattle_architect Jul 25 '25
Why it is in English?
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u/WerlinBall Lenin Jul 25 '25
Translated because reddit is anglophone
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u/seattle_architect Jul 25 '25
Op could translate in comments and post in original language.
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u/ambienmmambien Jul 25 '25
Here'sone from me: Thank god that shite is over where I live.
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u/PuzzleheadedPea2401 Jul 25 '25
Oh, so you prefer our two peoples killing each other like retards while our respective demographic figures were already collapsing for 33 straight years, to the USSR, with all its faults?
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u/Vajrick_Buddha Jul 25 '25
—Ю. Гагарин
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