Soviet-era spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit.
@AssociatedPress reports: "The Russians indicated it came down over the Indian Ocean, but some experts were not so sure of the precise location."
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A failed #Soviet Venus lander's long space odyssey has come to an end.
The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today after circling our planet for more than five decades.
Space · Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit
A half-ton Soviet spacecraft is about to crash into Earth, but don't panic.
NBC News reports: "Kosmos-482 was designed to land on Venus but instead has spent the past 53 years languishing in Earth’s orbit because of a rocket malfunction." It's expected to enter Earth's atmosphere sometime on Saturday.
NBC News · A half-ton Soviet spacecraft is about to crash into Earth, but don't panic
A two-meter sculpture, “#Putin - khuylo,” has appeared in Poland.
It was brought and presented to the exhibition, held on the territory of the cemetery-mausoleum of #Soviet soldiers, by the author himself, #Lithuanian artist #MartynasGaubas.
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Then Wisner looked for a way to penetrate #Soviet territory. He recruited desperate, homeless #Ukrainian refugees, many of whom had fought with the #Nazis, to parachute into #communist territory and revolt against the #Russians. None of them survived.
My latest design: Brezhnev Was A Communist
Boldly declare a critique on the 20th Century Soviet politician. Is it controversial? You decide.
Red letters for a red leader.
Get it on a baby onesie, or a t-shirt from Threadless:
https://bit.ly/BrezhnevWasACommunist
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@spectrum.ieee.org lovely, just as the #Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacecraft-kosmos-482-plunging-back-earth-what-to-know/
"#russia tries to forget, but!"
From https://t.me/Pravda_Gerashchenko
Two regimes, two names, one face: we tell readers of @Pravda_Gerashchenko how #Nazis and #communists fraternized in #Brest
On September 22, 1939, a parade took place that people in #Russia still don’t like to remember.
Meeting on the Bug
On September 1, 1939, the #Nazis attacked #Poland. Seventeen days later, under the pretext of defending "#blood_brothers," the #Soviet army carried out the same actions.
Today in Labor History May 5, 1882: Sylvia Pankhurst was born on this day. Plankhurst was a leader of the English women's suffrage movement. She was also a left (council) communist activist and follower of Anton Pannekoek. In her “Constitution for British Soviets,” she argued that "Mothers and … organizers of the family life of the community [should] be adequately represented, and … take their due part in the management of society [through] a system of household Soviets..."
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The #VEDay commemorations this year in #Britain, #France, #Canada & other US #allies will mark 80yrs since the end of #WWII in #Europe after #Germany’s surrender.
Trump’s claim that the #US “did more than any other Country” [his capitalization] to defeat #Nazi Germany might be contested in #Russia, which marks #Soviet victory in WWII on May 9. Russian Victory Day, which is meant to honor the 27M Soviets who died, is a national holiday & 1 of the most important days on their calendar.
#idiocracy
Today in Labor History May 2, 1919: Soldiers of the Freikorps murdered Gustav Landauer, anarchist, pacifist, and Education Minister, in the short-lived Bavarian Workers Republic. The Freikorps were right wing veterans of World War I. Many went on to become Nazis. Landauer believed that social change could not be won solely through control of the state or economy, but required a revolution in interpersonal relations. "The community we long for and need, we will find only if we sever ourselves from individuated existence; thus we will at last find, in the innermost core or our hidden being, the most ancient and most universal community: the human race and the cosmos." Landauer’s grandson is the acclaimed film director, Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood). British writer Philip Kerr wrote the novel, “Prussian Blue,” in which Hitler is one of the Freikorps militants who murdered Landauer.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #pacifism #soviet #Revolution #gustavlandauer #fascism #nazis #hitler #film #books #novel #writer #author @bookstadon
Considering how obsessed #Trump ’s top people are with calling everything “ #communism,” it’s ironic how much Beattie's witch hunt at State seems like a page from #Soviet history, with Party commissars trying to identify ideological saboteurs in their midst.
"I'm hoping for the #kremlin!" 
#Soviet satellite "#Cosmos_482" will fall to Earth — #LiveScience
It was launched in March 1972 to explore #Venus. However, due to a rocket failure, the device split into two parts and remained in orbit around our planet.
The first part of "#Cosmos_482" returned to #Earth on May 5, 1981, and the landing of the second is expected from May 7 to 13.
A dead Soviet space probe from 1972 is falling back to Earth.
@popsci reports: "Kosmos 482 poses small risks 'similar to that of a meteorite impact.'"
For similar stories, follow @jaw-dropping-space-stuff-PopularScience.
Popular Science · A dead Soviet space probe from 1972 is falling back to EarthKosmos 482 poses small risks 'similar to that of a meteorite impact.'
Today in labor history April 29, 1919: From April 29 to May 2, government forces in Munich violently crushed the Republic of the Councils of Bavaria. Workers, socialists, anarchists, and sympathizers bravely resisted. However, the Freikorps and the White Guards of Capitalism prevailed. They killed hundreds in the fighting and executed over 1,000 anarchists and communists in the aftermath.
Today in Labor History April, 21, 1913: Andre Soudy and Raymond Callemin, members of the anarchist Bonnot Gang, were executed. Callemin had started the individualist paper "L'anarchie" with author and revolutionary Victor Serge. The Bonnot Gang was a band of French anarchists who tried to fund their movement through robberies in 1911-1912. The Bonnot Gang was unique, not only for their politics, but for their innovative use of technology, too. They were among the first to use cars and automatic rifles to help them steal, technology that even the French police were not using. While many of the gang members were sentenced to death, Serge got five years and eventually went on to participate in (and survive) the Barcelona and Soviet uprisings. Later, while living in exile, Serge wrote The Birth of Our Power, Men in Prison, Conquered City, and Memoirs of a Revolutionary.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #illegalism #BonnotGang #Revolutionary #VictorSerge #Revolution #uprising #barcelona #soviet #writer #author #books #fiction #novel @bookstadon
One day I will organise and process all my photos and be a better person for it. This one is titled #Sunset in #Ashgabat and was taken last May in the former #Soviet Republic of #Turkmenistan #photo #photography #travel #TravelPhotography
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"Putin praises Elon Musk, compares him to father of Soviet space program"
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Oh Mr. #Putin! Mr. Putin sir!
I understand you are buttering up Elon #Musk's manchild ego for... reasons
But just a teensy footnote for you sir:
#SerhiyKorolyov (which is misspelled as Sergei Korolev), the father of the #Soviet Space Program, was #Ukrainian
(here's a nice post I made about Serhiy in January for his birthday:
