and what do Americans imagine 50 years from now? being the last survivor in their heavily armed bunker
Tbh, being able to imagine a future is a foreign concept to me. I feel as if we are trapped in an unchanging present, waiting for something to break but not knowing what form that will take.
I was never really able to imagine the future, except for one brief delusional moment during the second bernie campaign, now I don’t like thinking about it anymore
What I would give to have that kind of hope and trust in the progress of humanity
……yeah, about that
:stalin-bummed:
yeah I know they were only going to seal them for 50 years yet they are talking about visiting other galaxies and crazy sci-fi like stuff. It was the 60s though so with all the post war new technology and at the peak of Soviet power I understand why they dreamed so big. People don’t think like that anymore.
Would have been kinda reasonable to be so optimistic. Compare 1967 to 1917 in terms of how fast technology and society developed, extrapolate that out another 50 years. We’re living in a disappointment to those dreamers.
Even in the 90s End Of History phase there was still this kind of optimism, we’d have nanotech making everything we need from sunlight and dirt and genetic engineering would conquer human health.
It’s really the last 20 years that have seen those dreams crushed as capitalism stopped looting the Soviet ruins and started looting the core…
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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