Posted on 05/08/2026 11:07:27 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Content evoking the Soviet era is becoming increasingly common on social media...
"Nostalgic content aimed at young people — showing Soviet-era interiors or images of panel apartment blocks, paired with audio and instructions on how they should be viewed — would have seemed bizarre 15 years ago. Now it has become a trend," says Marleen Mihhailova, a junior researcher in semiotics at University of Tartu...
What motivated Mihhailova to study the topic, however, was specifically an interest in young people's nostalgia, since they have no firsthand experience of the Soviet period.
She interviewed 10 young people born after 1990, half of whom spoke Estonian at home and half Russian...
On the one hand, people recognize that certain activities, styles or consumer items have disappeared from everyday use. On the other, recalling shared memories creates a sense of belonging and warmth.
"Nostalgia becomes especially relevant in uncertain times, such as the present," the junior researcher notes.
To a large extent, nostalgic posts contain criticism of modern life.
Looking back at the past highlights values such as slowness, privacy and durability, contrasting them with today's speed, stress and consumer society.
For example, people compare modern IKEA furniture with handmade Soviet-era items...
In a recent conference presentation, she cited the example of tube marmalade.
"I noticed that several social media groups were simultaneously sharing photos of marmalade and Kosmos extract...It turned out that a new tube marmalade product from the Polli Horticultural Research Center had indirectly triggered the wave of memories.
Tube marmalade. Screenshot from a Facebook post. Source: EESTI NSV.
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Lets not forget Old Joe was happy to stroll down the garden path with Old Adolf until Adolf decided he didn’t need a partner anymore.
If it weren’t for the capitalist West, in particular America Old Joe would have been toast.
No argument that Stalin was one of the most cruel and fundamentally evil leaders in recorded history. He came in a close second to Hitler for the number of Russians and Ukrainians he killed or starved. Also the aid the US rendered to Russia was critically important in many ways. However if it were not for the stubborn , resolute willingness of the Russian people to fight where others simply capitulated, the best of the German army would not have been destroyed and the United States would have suffered immense casualties trying to liberate Europe.Hence many of us now living may not have come to exist.
The Germans basically gave them no choice but to resist.
I think had the Germans tried to win over the local populations, they would have won the war easily. Many welcomed the Germans originally as liberators.
Hitler could have given Ukraine, the same treatment as Slovakia. Yes, it would have been a German puppet state, but for the most part the Ukrainian people would be left alone. How many would have taken that over Stalin in a heartbeat?
I am truly sorry for you and your mother.
That would have seemed a never-ending nightmare.
Actually Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler did.
Hitler didn’t tell the Japanese about his plans to attack the USSR, so the Japanese committed to going south into Indochina, Indonesia, and the Philippines. If Hitler had clued them in with his plan there might have been no Pearl Harbor. Or maybe not: FDR cut off their oil, and they weren’t going to get that in Siberia.
Japan was already upset with Hitler, after he signed the Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin, despite the Anti-Comintern Pact.
Then Zhukov and Company whips Japan at the Battle of Khalkhin Gol in 1939, and from that point on, Japan turned its attention south.
The peasants fought because they had no choice, millions had already been murdered by the most murdering white man in history, so when he ordered them into battle and to die by the millions because they were used carelessly and indifferently, they did, or died by not doing it.
We and the rest of the world that hadn’t been conquered and absorbed by that dictator then had to endure the loss of many millions in wars around the world during the decades following his conquest of much of Europe.
Sure, Mr. Dfwgator. That’s what rational people would have done - but when have ideologues ever acted in a rational manner?
The Nazis were every bit as ideology-driven as the Communists - or the wokesters and Islamists of our times, for that matter…
That is a fact which many people in Russia still don’t like to mention…🙁
Putin’s Next Mistake: Trying to Make Stalin into a ‘Hero’
https://www.cato.org/commentary/putins-next-mistake-trying-make-stalin-hero
Six weeks before Barbarossa started.
German Officers in Red Square on May Day, 1941.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8phtzS2jA
Yes.
So bitter. So absolutely bitter to see😞
All that mess…
Still, I say: if only the politicians in the 1910s had been wiser.
Still, we shall never know whether another major conflict might have come some time after 1914 - even without the „firestarters“ Princip and his friends…
It wasn’t about the book. The commie occupation forces did have a list of books to destroy and they did that when they found them in libraries, but they didn’t hunt them.
The mechanism was to have a system where everyone is guilty of something and can be jailed at any time.
Their problem with Dr. Roose was that he hosted discussion evenings at his home. That is why they did a search in his home and by finding this book they now had a reason to imprison him.
My grandmother had books from before occupation, but since she kept quiet they didn’t care.
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