Commies be like “I can excuse his collaboration with Hitler to invade Poland, his deliberate starvation of eastern Europe, and the gulaging and cold-blooded murder of anyone who questioned him, but I draw the line at an age difference between him and his wife!”
Stalin in the Kremlin after a meeting about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The photographer secretly defied orders to destroy it as it was deemed not to show Stalin in a positive light.
Feeling down Joe? Not nice when yer the one getting yer ass kicked, is it?
Stalin in the Kremlin after a meeting about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The photographer secretly defied orders to destroy it as it was deemed not to show Stalin in a positive light.
Feeling down Joe? Not nice when yer the one getting yer ass kicked, is it?
“Canal Army! The heat of your work will melt your prison sentence.” Motivational poster for GULAG labourers, ca 1940
The White Sea–Baltic Canal, completed in 1933 connected the White Sea, in the Arctic Ocean, with Lake Onega, which is further connected to the Baltic Sea. The canal was constructed by the forced labor of gulag inmates. Beginning and ending with a labor force of 126,000, between 12,000-25,000 of which died.
“Canal Army! The heat of your work will melt your prison sentence.” Motivational poster for GULAG labourers, ca 1940
The White Sea–Baltic Canal, completed in 1933 connected the White Sea, in the Arctic Ocean, with Lake Onega, which is further connected to the Baltic Sea. The canal was constructed by the forced labor of gulag inmates. Beginning and ending with a labor force of 126,000, between 12,000-25,000 of which died.
