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Reminds me of that painting of a Red Army soldier gazing in amazement at the interior of the Winter Palace.


Twenty-nine years after this photograph, the Soviets started the Space Race with the world's first artificial satellite. sputnik

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Man: What is this WITCHCRAFT!? scared

Woman: God, is that you? biden-horror

Girl: This kind of slaps. kirby-jammin

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Yo. I absolutely love that we can have thing like polygonal animations in the comments. How do I do this?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

It's possible only with the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Emotes on hexbear can be animated

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Just embed a gif

[-] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago

If the Soviet Union was truly communist, they wouldn't have peasants.

Checkmate tankies

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago

Soviet peasants listen to Cumtown for the first time

[-] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

Listening to the classic bit "gay Charlie Chaplin"

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

"Petrushka, wtf is this {redacted} shit!?"

[-] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

That one guy has a thousand island stare

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's a thousand yard stare, you gourmand.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

It’s five spice stare, actually

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Scary, Sporty, Baby, Ginger, and Posh?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Exactly!

And what other thing is Scary?

The CCP China party!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Thousand meter stare, down with imperial system.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Cumtown 1927

The Bearded Alcoholic: What if Tchaikovsky was gay?

The Greek: cackles

[-] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago

Great photo honestly, the gentle absurdity of it makes it feel extra real somehow

[-] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

liberalism "But the Romanovs were just smol innocent beans and the peasents were just fine before those mean ol commies tricked them into doing a revolution."

[-] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

The lady has a look on her face like she's having a vision of the horrors of the future that this new contraption will bring. The man is looking at it like the gears are turning and he's envisioning cool new shit he could do with this.

They're seeing the same thing stuff

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

they are both listening to Joe Rogan talk about how Mayans invented cell phones to a guest who is a former MMA fighter / pornstar who wrote an app that uses satellites to measure black peoples' skulls from space.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

those are suprisingly slim and form-fitting headphones for such an early stage of the technology

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I immediately thought they looked like Grado headphones.

My first pair of "good" headphones was the Grado SR-125 in 2006.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

they got a podcast?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Take bets on what you think they were listening too.

My guess is Total Eclipse of the Heart.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Video Killed the Radio Star (Time Travel Russian Remix)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

The CIA used its infinite budget and resources to develop time travel so that they could pollute early radio broadcasts with "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions, another twisted form of pollution that came from the aforementioned infinite budget. It was all they played on Radio Free Pangaea.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Wonderwall.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Hope they're not listening to RFE

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

They're listening to talk tuah, they were shocked by its deep philosophical debates.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Oh, totally! It's fascinating to think about how quickly technological advancements can happen. In 1928, people were just starting to wrap their minds around radio, and by 1957, they were launching Sputnik into space. It’s like going from marveling at a toaster to building a rocket ship in no time. Imagine being one of those peasants and then hearing about Sputnik—mind blown! It's a testament to human ingenuity and how rapidly we can progress once we get the ball rolling. It's almost like we're living in fast forward!

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I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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