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Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Although the official inauguration occurred in 1945, the holiday became a non-labor day only in 1965, and only in certain Soviet republics.

The German Instrument of Surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by Alfred Jodl (chief of staff of the German OKW) for Germany, Walter Bedell Smith, on behalf of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and Ivan Susloparov, on behalf of the Soviet High Command, in the presence of French Major-General François Sevez as the official witness.

Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, and because Susloparov, a relatively low-ranking officer, was not authorized to sign this document, the Soviet Union requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin.

A second surrender ceremony was organized in a surviving manor in the outskirts of Berlin late on 8 May, when it was already 9 May in Moscow due to the difference in time zones.

During the Soviet Union's existence, 9 May was celebrated throughout it and in the Eastern Bloc. Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics between 1946 and 1950, it became a non-working day only in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SFSR in 1965

The celebration of Victory Day continued during subsequent years. The war became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.

Victory Day in modern Russia has become a celebration in which popular culture plays a central role. The 60th and 70th anniversaries of Victory Day in Russia (2005 and 2015) became the largest popular holidays since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Does anyone remember Heavy Metal magazine? What the fuck was up with Heilman? That shit was weird.

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There really is a genre of music that’s covers made with a slow beat and no charisma to shop at fast fashion stores, huh?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

OK so the highschool teacher you wrote to groom and stalk his highschool student was "not weird" ok lady.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I finally have a phone again cri

about frickin time

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why must porky be like this?

Can't live in cities because the rich decided they like cities again, and living there should be a luxury. Suburbs are now "for poor people" but even they are still prohibitively expensive. Not only is it boring as shit, but you'll be forced to use a car which is also expensive as shit.

I don't even think I'm that much of a radical, I just want a job that's reasonable to get, pays reasonably, and have reasonable rent.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Got called for a gig tonight 🥳

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It does boggle my mind that the times when people drive tend to be when people are the most groggy or exhausted

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You can look at any existing socialist country— if you don’t want to call them socialist, call them whatever you want. Post capitalist— whatever, I don’t care. Call them camels or window shades, it doesn’t matter as long as we know the countries we’re talking about. If you look at any one of those countries, you can evaluate them in several ways. One is comparing them to what they had before, and that to me is what’s very compelling. That’s what so compelling about Cuba, for instance. When I was in Cuba I was up in the Escambia, which is like the Appalachia of Cuba, very rugged mountains with people who were poor, or they were. And I said to this campesino, I said, “Do you like Fidel?” and he said “Si si, with all my soul.” I remember this gesture, with all our souls. I said “Why?” and he pointed to this clinic right up on the hill which we had visited. He said, “Look at that.” He said “Before the revolution, we never saw a doctor. If someone was seriously ill, it would take twenty people to carry that person, it’d go day and night. It would take two days to get to the hospital. First because it was far away and second because you couldn’t go straight, you couldn’t cross the latifundia lands, the boss would kill you. So, you had to go like this, and often when we got to the hospital, the person might be dead by the time we got there. Now we have this clinic up here with a full-time doctor. And today in Cuba when you become a doctor you got to spend two years out in the country, that’s your dedication to the people. And a dentist that comes one day a week. And for serious things, we’re not more than 20 minutes away from a larger hospital. That’s in the Escambia. So that’s freedom. We’re freer today, we have more life.” And I talked to a guy in Havana who says to me “All I used to see here in Havana, you call this drab and dull, we see it as a cleaner city. It’s true, the paint is peeling off the walls, but you don’t see kids begging in the streets anymore and you don’t see prostitutes.” Prostitution used to be one of the biggest industries. And today this man is going to night school. He said “I could read! I can read, do you know what it means to be able to read? Do you know what it means to be able not to read?” I remember when I gave my book to my father. I dedicated a book of mine to him, “Power and the Powerless” to my father, I said “To my father with my love,” I gave him a copy of the book, he opened it up and looked at it. He had only gone to the seventh grade, he was the son of an immigrant, a working-class Italian. He opens the book and he starts looking through it, and he gets misty-eyed, very misty-eyed. And I thought it was because he was so touched that his son had dedicated a book to him. That wasn’t the reason. He looks up to me and he says ‘I can’t read this, kid” I said “That’s okay dad, neither can the students, don’t worry about that. I mean I wrote it for you, it’s your book and you don’t have to read it. It’s a very complicated book, an academic book. He says, “I can’t read this book.” And the defeat. The defeat that man felt. That’s what illiteracy is about, that’s what the joy of literacy programs is. That’s why you have people in Nicaragua walking proud now for the first time. They were treated like animals before, they weren’t allowed to read, they weren’t taught to read. So, you compare a country from what it came from, with all it’s imperfections. And those who demand instant perfection the day after the revolution, they go up and say “Are there civil liberties for the fascists? Are they gonna be allowed their newspapers and their radio programs, are they gonna be able to keep all their farms? The passion that some of our liberals feel, the day after the revolution, the passion and concern they feel for the fascists, the civil rights and civil liberties of those fascists who are dumping and destroying and murdering people before. Now the revolution has gotta be perfect, it’s gotta be flawless. Well that isn’t my criteria, my criteria is what happens to those people who couldn’t read? What happens to those babies that couldn’t eat, that died of hunger? And that’s why I support revolution. The revolution that feeds the children gets my support. Not blindly, not unqualified. And the Reaganite government that tries to stop that kind of process, that tries to keep those people in poverty and illiteracy and hunger, that gets my undiluted animosity and opposition.

—Michael Parenti

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Now that Kendrick left the strong implication of Drake being a pdf file, someone should tell him about israel

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ds9 rewatch for like the 10th time or more, just got to Bar Association. Hell fucking yeah!

Here's to you, Sean Alocious OBrien

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All the big left twitter accounts saying rip Steve Albini...

You dont have to rejoice that hes dead or anything, but like, please dont openly praise people who

CW csawrite articles about how much they love child porn

Even if it was 40 years ago, even if they apologized for it later, there are things that you shouldn't be able to come back from and thats one of them.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

for some reason i was unable to use the site for like the last week. the homepage would load but none of the posts would appear, and i couldn't use the menu to get to my profile page either. great bit by the admins rat-salute-2

Death to America

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Please come back.

or, failing that, grant me the strength to convince even a single lib that murdering landlords is a clear moral and ethical good and we should do it all the time.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I am STRESSED about the potential mask ban in North Carolina and I am trying NOT to think about it but it is NOT WORKING

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm craving a slushy badly for some reason. Like I just woke up, wanting one. and I dont even drink slushies. I'm also really wanting some water with lots of ice in it to

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

"Well I could do [literally anything] but uhhh why bother?"- Me every single day

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Remember Quiznos? I swear to god that was a thing or am I having a life long hallucination? lenin-confused

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Sorry boss, I didn't get much done today. I was too busy daydreaming about the Timberwolves winning tonight.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Victory Day pilots flew with the flags of the allied nations.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

My man was born with 8 balls, kept 2 and the rest became the infinity stones. undyne-joy

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