Stalinist realism. We've all heard of it. Well, most of us anyway. It's an architectural style that still defines large swaths of urban territory across East Europe, parts of Asia and even Africa and Latin America. Wherever communism has set foot at least for a while, we see gargantuan concrete mastodons. We've talked about life in those monsters ( Read more... )

Hi, all you nuclear mutants environmentally aware fellows! Awesome lettuce salads for Easter, May 1 parades under the open sky and all that, while in blissful ignorance about what had just happened not more than a thousand km away from our homes - that's what I could say about this time of the year back in 1986...

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Most former communist countries in Central and East Europe dump their monuments from the communist era into special museums that look more like theme parks, where older people can indulge in their nostalgia. But the West Romanian town of Timisoara has gone one step further, and opened the first Museum of the Communist Consumer.

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I know that this is about 18 hours late but...

25 years ago today the Antifaschistischer Schutzwall (Eng: Anti-Fascist Protection Wall) separating East Germany from West came down administering an ultimately fatal gut-wound to the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union.


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Greetings, comrades folks! Yesterday marked a quarter of a century since the fall of the Berlin Wall. As for today, no doubt November 10 is a very symbolic day for my society. On this very day, exactly 25 years ago, democracy "exploded"  here in Bulgaria. Well, maybe not exactly. But it felt like it at the time, at least for a while. One thing is ( Read more... )

Greetings, comrades & comradesses dudes & dudettes! In the name of Marxism-Leninism, here's a glimpse of a time long past... Eh, well, perhaps not so long. We might be giggling now when we look back at those days, but we sure didn't feel like laughing back then. Nah, that's actually not true. If there was one thing that kept us going at the time, ( Read more... )

How would some of the most famous corporate logos in the world have looked like if they were to be made by a commie?

Here we go, then.


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O, hail, you proletarian comrades and comradesses freedom & democracy maniacs! You do know what GULag is, right? Well, a recent poll among our very local youth reveals a curious picture: a large number of them believe GULag is actually an internet search engine, and the communist regime that had held our part of the world in its grip for half a ( Read more... )

During an interview with a young revolutionary I asked why the proletarian class would make good leaders. She gave me food for thought when she described a nineteenth century manufacturing environment. She seemed to be unaware that manufacturing techniques had advanced in the past hundred years. She also recommended Lenin's rationale in favor of ( Read more... )

Greetings, comrades fellas! What you're gonna read may sound kinda funny to you right now, but people used to take this stuff pretty seriously at the time. And what's this time that I might be talking about, you'd ask? Well, COMMIE TIME of course!

Well, not really. Actually, people used to make all sorts of funny jokes with themselves and their own ( Read more... )