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goddamnit. 50 years from now we all just imagine a climate apocalypse.
We paid a heavy price of millions of lives for our victory. And today, on 22 June 1969, on the 28th anniversary of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany on our Soviet country, we address you, those who don’t know what war is. We urge you to remember and respect the memory of those who gave their lives in the fight for socialism, who died defending the freedom of the motherland and European nations from foreign invaders. Guard like sacred relics the monuments we have built to commemorate those who died
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The youth of our region is gifting you, the young ones of the 21st century, with Koryazhma that has been turned from a small village into a modern town within ten years, Severdodvinsk that we built on land that used to be swamps, and the colossal wood industry of the North: Kotlass, Solombal and Arkhangelsk factories. We know that you will have better lives than us,” the letter continues. “You will do great things in our galaxy, will make our planet great. We are a little jealous of all you who are celebrating the centenary of our Soviet motherland. But we also know that you will be a little jealous of our restless young generation. We have a clear aim, a great future ahead of us and lots of things to accomplish. We have things that we can invest out hearts, brains, energy and labour in, and this is the source of our happiness.
fuck
“You’ve never had to chant: ‘Shame on the Israeli aggressors!’, you’ve never had to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, read news about provocations in revolutionary Cuba. How far away these events are from you! […] Young crowd of 2017! We are sure that you have justified the trust your heroic predecessors have invested in you, that you have created a new world.”
shit
“We have found in the earth of our peninsula the richest deposits of valuable metals and minerals, we have built towns, cities, factories and power plants in the tundra, laid roads, built a navy and learned how to reap a harvest from this meagre polar soil. We have only made our first steps into outer space, and you are probably already flying to other planets. You will uncover many natural secrets, curb nuclear power, tame the forces of nature, improve the climate, grow gardens in the Arctic Circle. Remember us, your predecessors, who built your city and whose lives were sacrificed for the struggle to build communism.”
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Don’t get too pessimistic with this one, everyone. The sixties certainly weren’t lacking in issues, and even if we haven’t totally solved humanity’s problems, we’re far better off than we were then. Things will get better, if it takes ten years or a hundred. Don’t lose that hope.
If you were born in 1900 and lived to be 70 years old you would be around to see:
-Film
-Human terrestrial flight
-Communism become a world dominating force
-The average life expectancy double
-Radio
-Human space flight
-Nuclear power
-Cars
-The end of monarchy
-Man landing on the Moon
-The green revolution
-and much, much more
Now let’s compare that to being born in 1970 and living till now:
-The internet (a thing that is only a net negative)
-Death of communism
That’s about it. We are stagnant
What the fuck are you talking about plenty of amazing advancements have happened the last 50 years.
Here’s just some for each decade
80’s: artificial hearts, the space shuttle, the start of GPS (not available to the public much until 2000s tho)
90’s: DVDs, the internet (which despite what you think has been an amazing tool in connecting people all around the globe and allowing us to explore history and culture far better than ever before), Human Genome Project, in vitro fertilization becomes readily accessible.
2000’s: Great advancements in our understanding of the age of the universe, the Mars Exploration Rover first lands, the bio-artificial liver.
2010’s: 3D printing, a surge of open source technology, New Horizons the first spacecraft to reach Pluto, the discovery of the (admittedly already known but not yet found) Higgs boson particle.
What!? More stuff happened in 70 years than in 50 years!?
Summing the entire computing revolution - from making central planning finally possible, to being able to solve previously intractable planning problems, to the early internet, to global access to a huge variety of information - as “internet (a thing that is only a net negative” - makes the last 50 years sound like nothing happened in technology?
Focusing on the doomed Soviet Union and ignoring the still thriving communist China makes it look like communism is dead?
No shit.
Go outside and have a picnic you absurd doomer.
It’s just kind of hard to feel good about china’s progress when all the western countries are still in the grip of neoliberalism and trending towards conservative nationalism/fascism.
ignoring the still thriving communist China
I don’t live there and they aint coming here so why should I?
This entire article was painful to read. Man, they had such hope for the future :deeper-sadness:
