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Since insight into how the eastern bloc actually functioned and existed is quite rare even among communist circles, it is important we learn all we can about them. We should imitate its successes and solve its issues, not discard something so important.

Im doing an alternate history scenario with a friend and this is my map for 1980. I wanted some fresh eyes to look at this and give some history changes.

the only relavent alteration of history i have here is that I changed the result of the Ecuadorian elections which made it less dependent on the USA.

Finnish Bolshevik is always a treat!

Lol they look like balls

there's an upload limit for images so I'll get around to putting more in with additional edits

The Russian-language website uses .ru meanwhile.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3112597

not sure if I got the phrasing quite right, direct machine translation is "American-style hunger relief" but that sounds more clunky in a way, at least for a poster

Another really cool shot of the same person, though not as high quality of an image

Over 1 million Red Army soldiers gave their lives for you to rid the world of nazism in 1942/3. Never, ever forget their sacrifice.

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Fun fact: Icebreaker Lenin was the world's first nuclear-powered ship that launched in 1957, exactly 40 years after the revolution. In 40 years the Soviets managed to go from an agrarian feudal state to harvesting the atom for power and just a few years after this ship was launched, traversing the cosmos. :)

You can actually see a bunch of these tiles in Seattle's Tashkent Park still to this day, though they're not as well preserved as the ones in Tashkent which is a shame because a few of the ones I saw in pictures were really wholesome.

Cross-post from c/History