I survived the war. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. No, I wasn’t at the front. At the beginning of the war, I was not yet 11 years old. I wanted to go to the front. But to do this, it was necessary to take a train towards the front. And it was impossible to get to the station at that time. The station was guarded as a military facility. We, the children of soldiers, were determined to fight for our great Motherland.

#What this war was for us

I will not talk about what this war was for us. A lot has been written about this, both truth and, unfortunately, lies. I can only say that war is very difficult, and God forbid to experience such a difficult time again.

I have seen the eyes of mothers, wives, sisters, and children whose loved ones, fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons have remained forever on the battlefield. I saw their eyes dry with tears. It’s better not to see it again.

We won. And we know the price of this victory. We, the children of the warriors, listened every d

Any state has the right to set some conditions for another state. But in this case, the state that sets the conditions must be either stronger or at least equal in military-economic power. In all other cases, you can only politely ask for something. Therefore, setting some conditions for Russia on the part of Salome is either the height of arrogance or the height of political illiteracy. Well, as a historian who graduated from the university in Tbilisi, I understand that Salome has no idea about the historical relations between Russia and Georgia. She was a Frenchwoman and remained a Frenchwoman, and in case of complications, she would run away to France.

The question is, how does Russia threaten Georgia? Russia protected Ossetia from destruction by the Georgians. If you consider the protection of small people as an occupation, then this is your level of development. If Russia leaves Ossetia, then the next day a frenzied crowd of Georgians will break into it, cut all the Ossetians, lo

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/365083

Did people create their own businesses within the USSR? How did they have to work inside the planned economy?

How should we celebrate?

Edit: Wait, I meant the founding of the USSR.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/312848

For walkable cities where you need no cars, you have old cities like Barcelona, Paris, Vienna, etc where you have a bunch of mid-rise buildings placed close together. Or you have cities like Tokyo with tall skyscrapers and large plazas below, or you have Soviet cities, which seem to mostly be mid to tall-ish buildings, but with fairly wide clearances between buildings. I'm really curious about the planning behind this, since as a general rule, buildings tend to get exponentially more expensive per square meter of floor space as they get taller, contrary to economies of scale, so most urban planning circles say that skyscrapers are only really practical if your population is really high, like Japan and China. But, with midrise buildings, you have to make them sufficiently close together or else you sacrifice density and walkability. So, I'm curious as to what the rationale was in planning the building heights, spaces between buildi

The dissolution of the USSR wasn't democratic