[sergey1973]

Now billions of former Soviet citizens who grew up gnawing on Sakko i Vantsetti pencils will have to be reeducated.

Alongside with bunch of US College professors -:))))) Unfortunately, socialists and socialist leaning liberals are not bothered with facts. For them any crime in the name of socialist utopia is justified.

[annalex]

ambitious Park-City development behind the Ukraina Hotel. The 14.3-hectare site, now occupied by the 120-year-old Badayevsky brewery and Sacco & Vanzetti pencil factory, will be turned into a 400,000-square-meter residential development that will include office and retail components. While the Soviet-era walls of Sacco & Vanzetti will be torn down, Badayevsky's ornate, gingerbread-house-like facades are protected as an architectural treasure and will be preserved.

Turning Old Factories Into Prime Property

This is that factory's backdoor, although the photographer was mostly interested in the locomotive. Which is a very well preserved pencil hauler.

Fly forward, our steamer, next stop is the Commune!
No other way exists for us, in our hands we have a rifle!

[mcvey]

You know, that is an interesting observation. Several months ago I had a department chair in one of the fuzzier social sciences walk up to me and say "isnt't there anything you could give me so that I could tell my students that the founders were not in favor of individualism."

Truly a collectivist turning her students into collectivism of the most mean-tempered and arrogant type.

McVey