#USSR NT

[zahri-melitor]

New(ish) Comics Day

This week’s collection at DCUI was actually kinda mid for me when I was scrolling looking for stuff to read. (I would like to repeat my rant that while YES it’s nice to see Titans being the premier team could we please get ANY TEAM BOOK for any character under 25 to be on rather than OT/NT Titans book #4??) Nonetheless:

Hawkgirl #1: oh damn this is actually good and fun and this is unfair as I have been trying really hard not to care about Thanagarians. (I now need to read about Kendra on the Blackhawks because if Dinah is teasing Kendra about it it’s probably hilaribad) I don’t know why we have a palette-swapped Kory with a talking corgi, but there’s also a palette-swapped Kory with a talking corgi. Also this is uh a very queer book and I’m enjoying it.

Knight Terrors: Shazam! #1: look I know I have very much been avoiding reading Knight Terrors at least until it’s all over, but also this had Mary on the cover and I’m weak. It’s…fine? Mary’s having nightmares about Billy being evil, fires burning the family to death, danger to her siblings and…eating bugs. Ok, I’m on board with this ‘is nobody writing this event actually good at writing horror?’

Warlord #11: This week’s issue is called Flashback! Travis, Mariah and Machiste get chased into a cave by a Triceratops. So Travis decides to reminisce to himself about how he ended up in Skartaris.

As you may recall, Travis Morgan was a US military pilot who was flying a spyplane over the USSR when he had to bug out to get back to the US really fast. So he flew over the North Pole and ran out of fuel.

Compasses don’t work that way, Travis.

Travis sees some land through the clouds as he’s trying to safely crash his empty plane and parachutes out to land in a jungle. Because he apparently flew in through the hole in the world to the hollow earth land of Skartaris. Ta da!

(Travis explaining his Hollow Earth theory. This man would be radicalised by YouTube so fast…)

Has no water, food, hat, shelter or medical supplies. DOES have a knife and a gun with 12 bullets. Sure, everything you need, Travis. (Travis proceeds to drink straight out of a creek and I hope he enjoys his interesting intestinal parasites)

Anyway, with his gun and 12 bullets Travis Morgan sees a hot girl fighting a dinosaur and since Travis has never seen a hot girl in this series without IMMEDIATELY trying to get in her pants, he rushes off to try and ‘rescue’ the damsel. And wastes half his bullets immediately. What was that about having ‘everything you need’, mate? (The damsel, Tara, did not need rescuing and saw off the dinosaur on her own)

They get captured and taken to see Deimos. Travis uses up his last bullet shooting an orb Deimos is focusing through. In reward he…gets taken by a harem of girls to go have a bath and get changed into a proper Skartaris no-clothes outfit. Tara teaches him the local Skartaris language, and we start the never-ending quest to get Tara back to Shamballah, something Travis forgets he is supposed to be doing approximately every 5 pages.

[writingbrainrot]

Hey. Allow me to introduce myself

Member in a system (i dislike roles but i'd technically be a reluctant host)

Neurodiverse af, disabled af and qpoc af

Body is 25*

I need a body double to start writing again ;__;

We prefer discord cus pluralkit but also just easier to have all communication in one place

We suck at replying on other platforms

If you are 22-30 and want to write together and also talk about blorbos and you're accepting of someone saying "hey saying that hurts me, could you not?" And capable of saying it back when you're hurt then lesgo 👉😊👉

(Aka im ok with people making honest mistakes but not wanting to fix them and grow, that just doesn't work with where i am in life atm)

If you identify as conservative, right-wing, anarchist or communist (USSR definition, not US's weird definition that just means empathy=communist) person then please do not message me. Biological family are survivors of the genocides done by soviet so let's just spare us all the pain and not interact/gen

What we write if that's important:

We're self-published and write as diverse stories as possible, in whatever genre we feel like (the main one tends to be slice of life though) that are meant to be accessible to people currently experiencing brainfog aka what we needed and still need/lh

Potential cons of knowing us/dealbreakers depending on who you are:

•Strongly opinionated on the opinions we have solidified based on the best info we can access. Examples:

"don't be a dick, if you are being one, fix that" or "human rights are not up for negotiation" or "genocide bad regardless of who it is done on" (surprised how often i have to state these/gen) but also ones that seem silly and yet i feel strongly about like "having problematic faves". Loving barbie/disney/veggietales while wholly rejecting the companies. Trying to see things in a more nuanced way etc etc

•i'm both spiritual and scientific

•body eats meat cus traditions and health

•may disappear from time to time for a few days up to a week cus crashes happen despite our best efforts

•c-ptsd but like.... i think that's a given on this site/lh

•We're also not good people. Not the worst but not good people, we're just people.

•so many special interests, obscene amount because of above c-ptsd/masking

•oh also if you're drawn to talk to me but currently think you're NT.... you may discover you relate to me a bit too much and realise you were less NT and more ND than you thought. Many a friends have discovered their diagnoses solely by us sharing our symptoms so like, if you don't want a/another diagnosis, steer clear?/lh

•learning to unmask so we get more and more "blunt" every week

•we also like to talk, v social and we will penguin pebble because sending things to friends is fun ^__^

•when triggered, our communication dramatically gets worse and more frantic (i think this is normal but at this point i'm not sure anymore)

Fave quotes:

"Let the world we dream about be the one we live in now"

"What would you take from a burning building?

Anyone can answer that, the fire"

"I feel weak

You've never looked stronger"

"Tu fui, ego eris"

"Fortuna favet fortibus"

[jerdle-typology]

Justice and Rational Types

To start with, rational types are more oriented towards justice than irrational types, simply by virtue of their rationality. All rationals want the world to fit some form of law (it’s more evident in the Ejs, but Ijs have their principles).

Next, I will need to define two concepts of justice. They could be called liberal and progressive, direct and systemic, or naive and corrupt. I will call them democratic and aristocratic, because that’s what they are in socionics.

Democratic justice is about everyone having the same opportunities and playing by the same rules. It is the simplest and most evident variety of justice, and has dominated until very recently, society having been Gamma. Justice applies to all, rich and poor alike.

However, there is a flaw. As Anatole France put it, “In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread”. And so, aristocratic justice comes into play,

Aristocratic justice is more hierarchical. Justice here is not equality of rules, but a more complex concept involving equality of outcome and compensating for discrepancies. In general, those who are better off are treated more harshly, while those who are worse off get more leeway, although this is sometimes reversed in Beta. If the word “privilege” is used, you’re probably looking at this variety.

However, this is also imperfect. A failure mode here is the Oppression Olympics, where people compete to be the greatest victim in order to get the most benefits. Democratic justice would avoid this by not allowing more leeway for those worse off.

Democratic justice focuses on whether the system is fair, aristocratic justice focuses on whether the results are.

Now, as the names suggest, I see democratic rationals as highly focused on democratic justice and aristocratic rationals as highly focused on aristocratic justice. The irrationals also focus on that variety of justice, just less so.

This is weird, however, because the process-result dichotomy seems to have entirely flipped. It is the result types that care about a just process and the process types that care about a just result.

Stratiyevskaya points to this on a societal level, although LSI is described as actively unjust rather than merely using a different system of justice. This is probably due to her being ESI and growing up in the USSR.

As can be seen here, the idea of a fair re-construction of society (forwarded by LII, Robespierre), during which all “social units” turn into “workers” who equally and actively work in the field of social work (on example of ants or bees), finds its development and evolutionary implementation into practice, but not in the framework of linear, egalitarian, “democratic” (“questim”) logic of relations of LII, Robespierre (-Ti), but in the framework of a hierarchical model (“declatim”) logic of relations of LSI, Maxim (+Ti), implemented by aspect of volitional sensing (-Se) and founded of eco-expedient basis of a nonlinear system that has been formed evolutionarily (along a spiral).

While this only talks about LII and LSI, I see similar with other types. For example, I see the integral type of the social justice movement (a very clear case of aristocratic justice) as EII, while libertarianism (a clear case of democratic justice) is very much a Gamma NT thing.

Personally, I see democratic justice as truly just and aristocratic justice as a Goodharted form of it, using a proxy for justice as the goal, rather than justice itself. While it achieves that proxy much faster than democratic justice, it does so at the expense of actual fairness.

[uroki-memologii]

"Intim" shop moved to "Child's world" behind the firearms section.

Context:

Stores with names like Intim (from the word intimate, so it's ee-nt-eem) are essentialy sex shops (but like. not the good kind).

Child's World is what most children's stores were called back in USSR, and a lot of stores that sell toys and children's clothes are still named that (again, the old-fashioned name indicates that you probably shouldn't buy anything there).

[drsycz]

Damn, it's something that I was thinking about too

I personally don't use tone tags mostly for three reasons:

I'm from a post-USSR country, and first joined social media 10 years ago. Tone tags were not a thing on dominantly-Russian side of the internet at that time, and I have developed other accomodation strategies for myself

I probably have alexithymia, it's really hard for me to identify and describe my emotions in words (however, I'm somewhat capable to match an emoji or a meme to my feelings)

Tone tags are often difficult to identify just by logic, without learning them, especially when English is not your first language

Those reasons lead to me mostly utilizing emojis and memes as an alternative to tone tags. And switching to actual tone tags is really hard for me, because 1) it's breaking already established accomodation pattern, 2) I genuinely struggle with learning them, and 3) to use a proper tone tag, you must know exactly what emotion you want to express, and I'm incapable of it.

But each time I say I genuinely struggle with tone tags, people act like I'm the ableist one. They make me the problem while in reality the problem lies within tone tags as a concept. Tone tags are not for everyone, and we should accept it instead of going after the throats of those who can't use them.

Yes, it was originally a good idea, but it ended up heavily fucked up. It genuinely would be much better to just write the whole word, especially considering that NTs sometimes do it too - at least on Russian side of the internet, it's fairly normal to write "joke" or "sarcasm" in a separate sentence after you wrote something what's supposed to be a joke or sarcastic statement.

When people say they struggle with keeping track of all the tone tags (the ones like /j or /gen), everyone who disregards that by responding "it's just memorizing some abbreviations/acronyms, it's not that hard, stop complaining" is ableist and a fucking hypocrite. If you're going to advocate for accessibility, advocate for accessibility for all of us.

You can't claim to be an ally to neurodivergent and disabled people and then shit on us for our symptoms. If you actually care about helping us, why aren't you listening when we say we struggle with something? It's never okay to tell disabled people they should be able to do something they can't, that it's not that hard, but it's especially not okay if you do so while pretending to support disabled people.

Also, in addition to the "it's not that hard" statement being ableist, it's utter bullshit. There are so many tone tags to keep track of and memorize. I did a quick google search and one of my top results had ninety one tone tags. That's a lot. That's probably a lot even for a neurotypical person, and I'm not a neurotypical person. I struggle to remember a lot of basic, necessary tasks, so I really can't memorize ninety one tone tags.

Especially when some of them are incredibly ambiguous- only one letter? Acronyms or abbreviations at least give you some clues, one letter tone tags are so incredibly confusing. Like, what does /t mean? There are a lot of words that start with T! (This is a rhetorical question. I know /t means "teasing," but I only know the answer because figuring that out was a memorably frustrating experience.)

And /t is just one example of a tone tag I learned because I kept seeing it in conversation and not understanding and being really confused and frustrated. I can't tell you the number of times I've been messaging someone on discord, and they say something with a tone tag I don't recognize, and I just open a new tab to google the meaning, which is where I find lists like the one above. I usually rely on google instead of asking the person what they meant, because I feel stupid and embarrassed for not knowing this code that everyone else seemingly gets.

Which is exactly how it feels when I don't understand someone's tone in real life! Confused and frustrated and ashamed. And tone tags were supposed to help neurodivergent and disabled people not feel that way, so I don't know how we reached a point where they cause those feelings in many of us.

I can't deny that tone tags are a useful accessibility tool for some. If you find them helpful, it's genuinely good that you have that resource. But they're not accessible for all of us. It's incorrect to act like tone tags are a perfect way to communicate, and it's ableist to disregard our struggles with them and tell us to just try harder.

Either listen to those of us who say they have trouble understanding tone tags, or stop pretending you actually give a shit about accessibility.

[ancelottieyebrow]

Lev Yashin, World Cup 1958

[official-cisphobe]

ppl: *use the USSR flag unironically (or even as a joke)*

me:

[eludum]

punchrolled replied to your post: tal ussr you c*nt how dare you get all three of...

it’s simple, my friend. I was blessed with a ginormous mind

you:

[shooting-tsars-3bc19-blog]

Category: Political Opponents

Source taken from : https://www.romstudio.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-ussr-life-under-stalin.html

(russian) In the food shop Nt 5 of the district of Stalinsk region, stop the first sale of goods at reasonable prices

What we can infer from the source: The life of the political opponents were tough during Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union. The Soviet people are crowding around in the shop for food and if they are unable to get food, it will lead to starvation and in the end, death. The source shows the people crowding in the food shop, getting the first sale of goods at reasonable prices that they can afford, there are more people at the back will have a competition on getting the first sale of goods such as food.

[randomaccessmemory]

NTS Radio - Mishka w/ Ma Sha - 19th August 2019 by Ma Sha Had a pleasure to record a mix of jazz, funk, folk, soul, disco and pop songs from USSR & Eastern Bloc countries for @mishkadj show on @nts_live !

[bujoloveme]

Skripal poisoned 1 case … – Russia 100 years of poisoning – Soviet KGB officer and assassin Nikolai Evgenievich Khokhlov has granted asylum …

KGB poisons – by Anna Zechenter

"Putin's people have finer resources than those sent by Stalin, Khrushchev or Brezhnev".

Political opponents of Colonel Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin fall ill with mysterious diseases. Usually, after their escape from their homeland, it happens to them, hoping that nothing bad can happen to them in the West.

The Russian secret service uses various poisons to get rid of unfavorable people, as in the Soviet era, except that Putin's people have more sophisticated means than those of Stalin, Khrushchev or Brezhnev sent murderer of the day. This happens to journalists in the broad daylight, so there is no doubt that anyone can awkwardly escape writing the truth about the atrocities of the Chechen war or about a possible comparison between the rulers. Political enemies get sick – for years like Victor Yushchenko, the candidate for the Ukrainian president in 2004, who was poisoned with dioxin – or for months like Alexander Litvinenko, the federal security officer escaped from the West, died in 2006, after the deadly effect of polonium radiation was exposed.

During the Soviet era, the KGB murdered the person he wanted in silence, without unnecessary advertising and leaving no trace. The secret service resorted to refined methods of murder.

Infection of Josip Broz Tito

When Josip Broz Tito, the leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia announced in 1948 that his country would "build National Socialism" and "go his own way", he denied the Moscow rule in the eastern camp. To insult the injury, he decided to found his own Balkan Association. Angry, Stalin ordered his assassination so that the vulnerable Soviet hegemony would not be violated. The most famous assassination attempt on Tito was organized by Josif Grigulevich – the same man who in 1940 led the first unsuccessful attempt by another communist heretic, Leon Trotsky, in Mexico.

Agent Grigulevich visited many spy missions in Yugoslavia and had good relations with Tito's people. He was even promised a private audience with the leader of Yugoslavia in 1952. In early 1953, he proposed several variants of the assassination during the consultation with the emissaries of the Soviet Security Ministry in Vienna. One of the variants envisaged Grigulevich spraying a dose of plague bacteria on the visit of the leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The silent atomizer would hide under his clothes, and Grigulevich would immunize himself before attempting the plague. Another idea that was taken into consideration was a jewel box in gift box for Tito, which would give off a deadly gas when opened. The information that the attempt did not work reached Stalin unexpectedly on March 1, 1953. A few hours later, he suffered a stroke and died on the morning of March 2nd. Tito's problem has been solved.

Brezhnev prefers cyanide

In later years, immigrants became the subject of attacks by Soviet services in the West. Gyeorgy Okolovich, one of the leaders of a Russian migrant union – the National Union (NTS – Narodno-Trudovoy Alliance) in West Germany – was to be assassinated by Nikolai Khokhlov. Khokhlov was trained by Judo Master of the USSR, Mikhail Rubak, and Lieutenant-Colonel Godlevsky, a five-time winner of Soviet shooting competitions.

The NTS was founded in 1930 by Russian immigrants in Yugoslavia to start an armed resistance against the Soviets. The NTS worked together with the Germans during the Second World War, among other things, by issuing newspapers on Russian territory occupied by the Third Reich.

After 1945, the NTS began working with the Special Forces of the United Kingdom and the United States of America, at a time when there were survivors of the so-called second wave of Russian emigration to the West, ie people who survived German captivity and later Operation Keelhaul "survived. During Operation Keelhaul, the alliance handed over hundreds of thousands of Russian prisoners to Stalin. These prisoners captured by the Germans were citizens of the USSR, who were taken to the Third Reich for forced labor. They were also members of formations fighting on Hitler's side. NTS agents were sneaked into the Soviet Union until the mid-fifties. There they gathered information and recruited new agents.

Even then, there were initial assumptions that the inner circle of the group was infiltrated by the KGB. Accidents occurred one after another, although the organization worked in a deep conspiracy and maintained centralized structures. The Soviet secret services penetrated the inner circle of heads of state and used the NTS to deal with Russian dissidents. The intelligence used various forms of incitement. For example, a "secret" courier came to Moscow, who offered the opposition to blow up Lenin's mausoleum or found "five-man assault parties" that would arm the system.

During the trials of Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov, the publisher of independent underground journals, the so-called "Samizdat," the authorities accused the defendant of 1968 "contacts with the NTS," although the defendants had no connection with this organization at all. There have been attempts to treat Vladimir Bukovsky, who currently lives in the UK, in a similar way. The NTS confirmed Bukovsky so eagerly that there was no doubt about her provocative agent role.

The murderer, planned for Gyeorgy Okolovich, was built in the KGB gunsmith shop. It was an electrically ignited, self-igniting firearm hidden in a box of cigarettes. This firearm shot the victim with potassium cyanide. On February 18, 1945 Khokhlov appeared in Frankfurt am Main. Instead of killing Okolovich, he told the alleged victim all the truth and surrendered to the CIA, but at first they did not believe his story. During the press conference he showed journalists the unusual kind of firearm. In retaliation in September 1957 attempted to poison Khokhlov for treason. The experiment took place at the Hotel Palmengarten near the German-French border during an international conference of anti-communist activists from Europe and America. Before giving his speech, Khokhlov drank coffee given to him by one of the participants of the congregation. When he lost consciousness, he was taken to the hospital by his potential victim, Gyeorgy Okolovich. In the hospital he was poisoned with a strong, unknown poison. Khoklov's entire body was covered with black spots, and his face was deformed by heavy swelling. Okolovich asked for help from American military doctors. They identified the poison as radioactive thallium. Khoklov's body was strong, so he survived.

In order to eliminate the "psychological factor of man" in the future, which at the last critical moment might turn out to be disappointing, the Soviets turned to professional killers. This choice had another advantage as it covered the routes leading to Moscow.

A German named Wolfgang Wilprett was hired to eliminate Vladimir Poremsky, the chairman of the NTS. It was a big surprise in Lubyanka that even Wilprett changed his mind and reported his mission to the West German police in December 1955.

Gas atomizers and ricin

It was finally the turn to the elimination of Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera. These two were leading representatives of the Ukrainian emigrants. Rebet was one of the most important theoreticians of the Ukrainian national movement, and Bandera was a leader of the Ukrainian nationalists. The first died in 1957, the second in 1959. Bohdan Stashynsky, a KGB officer, was the executing officer. The weapon used in the assassination was a nebulizer that shot a thin stream of gas after a cyanide-filled ampule was smashed.

Stashynsky's base of operations was at a secret KGB center in Karlshorst near Berlin. In 1960 he met a German woman from the then German Democratic Republic (GDR), which was biased against the Soviets. Stashynsky realized that not only did he fall into disfavor, but he would never find peace because he knew too much. In August 1961, a few days before the closure of the border between East and West Berlin, he fled to the other side. In October 1962 he entered court in Karlsruhe. During the trial he revealed the details of the killings ordered by the Kremlin authorities. For the first time facts were revealed, and Moscow could not refuse knowledge of them. He even admitted that he received a Red Flag medal from Khrushchev for the murder of Bandera. The judge ruled that the main culprit was the government of the Soviet Union, and he sentenced Stashynsky to eight years in prison.

"The Bulgarian Umbrella"

On the evening of September 7, 1978, 49-year-old Gyorgy Markov was waiting at a bus stop near London's Waterloo Bridge. He did not know that a death sentence ordered by the leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Comrade Todor Zhivkov, had already been executed. Markov's death began a few seconds earlier, just as Markov was passed by a random pedestrian. A man with a distinctly foreign accent turned to Markov, and at the same time unintentionally dropped an umbrella, as it seemed. He picked it up quickly and hit Markov's calf with the tip of his umbrella. He hurried into a taxi and drove off.

When Gyorgy Markov was already a well-known playwright, essayist and writer in 1969, he fled communist Bulgaria. In London, he worked for BBC Broadcasting, was a correspondent for the Munich Radio Free Europe and the German channel Deutsche Welle.

He ridiculed the overly sensitive Zhivkov by talking about the villainy of a "village policeman" and the "disgustingly mediocre humor" of the First Secretary. He was a zealous enemy of communism, which could not be turned around or bribed. The authorities decided to eliminate him with the help of the KGB.

He began writing in sanatoriums where he went as a retired chemistry teacher and was constantly suffering from tuberculosis. His first novel "Questionnaire" was published in 1961. At the same time his narrative collection "Zwischen Tag und Nacht" was published. Soon his next book "Men" became a novel of In the sixties he became one of the most popular authors of his country, he published some novels and theater productions and also worked on screenplays.

In the late 1960s, the censors stopped his novel "The Roof" from being released, and two pieces based on his scripts were taken from posters. When he was allowed to travel to Italy in 1969 to meet his brother, he decided not to return. He settled in England and continued to write and was successful. In 1974, his play "The Archangel Michael" won first prize at the Edinburgh Theater Festival.

In the same year Boris Arsov suddenly disappeared from his Danish apartment. He was editor and publisher of the Bulgarian emigrant magazine. He was found after two months – arrested in the prison of Sophia. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. The authorities did not hide the fact that he was abducted by KDS officials (Drzavna Sigurnost Committee) or the secret police. After a year in prison, he was found dead in his cell.

In the mid-1980s, Bulgarian Communists began to get rid of enemies. Arsov's death coincided with the shooting of three Bulgarian immigrants in Vienna. They helped organize the escape to the West, and their names were: Veselin Stoyov, Peter Niezamov and Ivan Kolev. The Austrian police immediately identified the killer, a KDS agent who was able to hide under Zhivkov's wing.

A birthday present for the secretary

Dymitry Stoyanov was a communist politician who died in 1999. In early 1978, when he was Minister of the Interior and head of the KDS, he asked the KGB for help to silence a defiant emigre.

The head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, attended the meeting. At first, Andropov was opposed to any Soviet involvement, but he was convinced that a public ridicule on Comrade Zhivkov had a negative impact on Communist concerns.

"Do not plan direct involvement of our side, give the Bulgarians what they need, show them how to handle it, and send someone to Sophia to train their people, but that's the end of it," said Andropovs Command, quotes Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist. Mitrokhin copied a large number of Soviet intelligence documents and fled with them in the early 1990s with them in the West.

Sergei Mikhailovich Golubev, a toxicologist serving the intelligence service, has been instructed to prepare suitable resources for the Bulgarians. He decided a lethal ricin injection would be the best. A device placed in the pointed tip of an umbrella should be used in the company.

The Soviets chose umbrellas from the US, while the Bulgarians date the assassination: Comrade Zhivkov's birthday.

Markov felt vulnerable because someone called him and was warned that he could be poisoned in the near future. He ate and drank only with his closest friends.

On September 7, 1978, a few hours after the incident at the bus stop, Markov felt ill and was taken to the hospital. He remembered feeling a sting in his leg as he spoke to the stranger. At that time he did not care. He died three days later, on September 11th. During his autopsy, a 1.5 mm diameter platinum ball was found at the injection site. The ball contained a lethal dose of ricin. There were two small holes on the surface of the ball.

After the death of Markov, another Bulgarian immigrant immediately called the hospital. His name was Vladimir Kostov, and he was deeply disturbed by the circumstances of Markov's death when he himself was pierced with an umbrella on August 26, 1978 in Paris. One month after he was attacked, surgeons removed a ball from his back. It was similar to Markov's body. On that occasion, the bullet did not penetrate deep enough into the body of the victim and the ball was intact, meaning that the poison did not leak into his bloodstream. Later, Kostov published the book "The Bulgarian Umbrella", in which he described the method used by KDS.

The details regarding Markov's murder and death are still unknown. Someone from the hospital where Markov spent the last 5 days of his life has destroyed all the documents. No information was found in the archives of the KDS Security Service. It is only known that Francesco Gullino, a Danish citizen of Italian origin, carried out the murder. He was a secret agent of the Sophia regime. His name is also written "Giullino".

Christo Christov from the magazine "Dnevnik" has been carrying out investigations for years. On the thirtieth anniversary of Markov's assassination in 2008, Christov published documents showing that Francesco Gullino, born 1946 in Bari, aka "Piccadilly", was recruited by KDS in 1970. In the same year he was trained. He spent several years in Europe, posing as an antique dealer and visiting the Soviet Union three times. The day after Markov was attacked in 1978, he fled to Italy. As a reward for the murder of the writer, he received thirty thousand dollars. With this reward money he opened a shop in Denmark.

In 1993 he was interrogated several times by the Danish and British authorities and his fingerprints collected. a sample of his signature was submitted for graphological examination. "Piccadilly" has decidedly refused any connection with Markov's case. With no reason to accuse him, the Danes had to release him.

On April 18, 1993 Gullino left Denmark. Two months later, his house and business were sold in Copenhagen and no one heard from him afterwards.

"Service 7"

Oleg Gordyevsky, a very important American and British spy who managed to escape the Soviets in 1986, confirmed that the assassination attempt was planned and executed by the KGB. Bulgaria is in no hurry to show detailed circumstances. The investigation began in 1990, but a few months earlier, in December 1989, shortly after the collapse of Todor Zhivkov's regime, security services destroyed dozens of files on Markov. There was even a scandal in 2007 when Andrey Cvetanov, head of the investigation team, publicly announced that British doctors were responsible for the deaths of the immigrants because they did not recognize signs of poisoning and treated the victim for the flu.

A year later, Scotland Yard reopened its investigation. According to the British newspaper The Times, five detectives from Scotland Yard went to Bulgaria as new information appeared. Cvetanov told the Dnevnik newspaper that British investigators had asked him to look at the documents on Markov's death, and they also tried to obtain permission to interrogate forty witnesses, including two former police officers.

In 2008, the head of the Bulgarian National Investigation Service, Boyko Naydenov, said the work, to explain what is already clear, would include the services of "young lawyers who are not burdened by the past". His statement was in response to the Markov family's claims that Cvetanov deliberately blocked the investigation.

In 2010, Communist Security Service documents were disassociated from activities of the "Service 7" cell. The group was founded in the 1960s and consisted of professional assassins. They acted on the orders of the secret police and often worked with the KGB to kidnap and murder Bulgarian immigrants abroad. They were led by Colonel Petko Kovachev.

They first started four times in 1963, and a year later Kovachev insisted on "expanding his small department," he wrote. By the time he had nearly forty murderers under his command. A note dated July 1, 1970 was received: "We must execute death sentences," wrote Angel Solakov, the then Interior Minister. "I know it looks like a dirty job, but for us this work is an honor." , The group was apparently formally dissolved in 1972. Nevertheless, Markov's murder is attributed to them. The reason for this is that the alias "Piccadilly" appears in the documents alongside other aliases.

This story is vividly similar to the attempts to explain political murders in various countries of the Soviet bloc. The files are missing, witnesses disappear, the authorities assure that justice is served.

In the meantime, a new phrase appeared in the Lexicon of Special Services: "The Bulgarian Umbrella".

Putin and heavy metals

Years passed, the overthrow of the USSR was proclaimed, the Russian Federation emerged and the authorities in the Kremlin are still reaching for poisons. In 2006, the whole world was able to watch the long agony of Alexander Litvinenko on television. He was a lieutenant colonel in a special unit dedicated to organized crime and later poisoned with polonium in Britain.

Before Litvinenko escaped secretly through Georgia in 2000, he risked – risking his life – evidence that the bloody attacks were carried out by the US security service. These murders served as an excuse to start the second Chechen war. In the West, he collaborated with Yuri Felshtinsky – a Russian immigrant historian – on a publication titled "To Blow Up Russia." The publication should reveal facts and names that no one should ever hear.

The book was published in 2007, shortly after the death of Litvinenko. In the preface, Felshtinsky wrote: "In August 2001, several chapters of our forthcoming book were published in Russian by Moscow's" Novaya Gazyeta. "Since then, several people have died who helped us transport cassettes with the banned documentary" Murder of Russia " Both were shot and Yuri Shchekochichin, also a deputy editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazyeta, followed suit.

Russia refused to deliver Andrey Lugovoy, who according to the British service is the main murder suspect.

In January 2011, the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office stopped investigating the poisoning of the Kalashnikov couple with mercury, the two Russian dissidents. The Germans came to the conclusion that there is not enough evidence to deliberately preserve the deadly element. The fact of poisoning is denied by anyone; Mercury levels in the blood of former KGB colonel and his wife, Marina, exceeded the norm 25-fold. This was discovered in an investigation in a Berlin hospital in early November 2010. Since 1991, Viktor Kalashnikov has worked as a specialist in German affairs in Yeltsin's headquarters and was considered one of the most influential people in Russia. When Putin came to power, Kalashnikov became involved in journalism, and he fell into disfavor for having criticized the policy of the Kremlin. It is known that he had several death threats after his escape.

"Russia is returning to external expansion," Kalashnikov wrote in May 2009. "The whole world is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism, imposed by the Soviet Union on various countries, and Moscow claims to do it all The Cold War has claimed fifty million casualties, and the USSR has been crushed by it, but not completely, and today it is decided how this operation will progress. "

An excerpt from the book "KGB Poisons", Arcana Publishing, 2012

Written by Anna Zechenter

Anna Zechenter works in the IPN Department of Public Education in Krakow, published in "Dziennik Polski", "Nasz Dziennik", "Arcana", IPN Publishing, 1990 – 1997 editor and journalist at "Krakow Times". Author of the following books: "KGB plays a game of chess", "Memorized" – extended interview with Adam Macedoński.

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Ecofeminism

WOMEN AND LIFE ON EARTH

Women are mostly viewed by people as the caretakers of the family, the one to cook meals, clean houses, put children to sleep and many more “women roles”.  This article discusses why women are playing a major role and how ecofeminism, can be applied to the area of environmentally-related issues to shed light on the connection between women and the natural environment.

What is ecofeminism?

According to Lois Ann Lorentzen of University of San Francisco, and Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University “Ecofeminism is an activist and academic movement that sees critical connections between the domination of nature and the exploitation of women.... Ecofeminist activism grew during the 1980s and 1990s among women from the anti-nuclear, environmental, and lesbian-feminist movements. The “Women and Life on Earth: Ecofeminism in the Eighties” conference held at Amherst (1980) was the first in a series of ecofeminist conferences, inspiring the growth of ecofeminist organizations and actions”  simple put ecofeminism is a political movement that combines environmental concerns and feminist ones.

There are lots of roles and responsibilities that a woman faces, but what is the woman’s role in the environment? Statistics indicate that 80% of household shopping is performed by women (Berk 1988). Therefore, environmentally-related purchasing is in the hands of the women. She will have a tough decisions to make whether she would buy non-biodegradable plastic diapers or water-wasting reusable ones. She would also be needed to be cognizant of the deceptive fake labels that manufacturers make.

A substantial burden has been placed on women consumers to attend to the environmental crisis. With women's role as primary caretaker still intact within most segments of society (Ferree 1987; DeVault 1987), this is the reason why an additional role is put on women’s shoulders.

Here is a list of the most popular ecofeminist:

1. Carol Adams age 66

2. Helene Aylonage 86

3. Judi Bari Died at 48 (1949-1997)

4. Bernadette Cozart Died at 60 (1949-2009)

5. Mary DalyDied at 82 (1928-2010)

 Ecofeminism grew out of various social movements, the feminist and the peace and ecology movement- In the late 1970s and early 1980s Though the term was first used by Francoise D'Eaubonne it became popular only in the context of numerous protests and activities against environmental destruction, sparked-off initially by recurring ecological disasters.

Importance of Ecofeminism

In the 1950s there was a nuclear arms race between the US (United States) and the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). These countries are detonating nuclear test bombs above ground.

Nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a 1-kiloton-of-TNT (4.2 TJ) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on 27 January 1951. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from the NTS. NNSS is operated by Mission Support and Test Services, LLC.

During the 1950s, the mushroom clouds from the 100 atmospheric tests could be seen for almost 100 mi (160 km). The city of Las Vegas experienced noticeable seismic effects, and the distant mushroom clouds, which could be seen from the downtown hotels, Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests directly through St. George and southern Utah. The radiation did not just stayed in Nevada. Marked increases in cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, and gastrointestinal tract cancers, were reported from the mid-1950s through 1980.

Some of the radiation that spread was Strontium 90, and it got into children’s body and acts like calcium. There was a study called St. Louis Baby Tooth Study and was published in the International Journal of Health Services, they analyzed baby teeth collected during the era when the United States and the Soviet Union were conducting nuclear bomb tests in the atmosphere. They did find in fact Strontium 90 in these baby teeth. This led 50,000 mothers across US to organize, their organization was led by Dagmar Wilson and Bella Abzug, the assembly of the mothers was considered phenomenal that time, because 1951 was a time before Facebook, twitter and other social media, even long distance call is still a big deal.

The mothers’ organization was called Women’s Strike for Peace Lobbying Day. The result of the mothers’ was the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, this treaty is the abbreviated name of the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, which prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground.

If we think about it, this is a very wonderful thing that happened to the world, mothers gather to protect their family and even the world itself. Because of the mothers, radiation no longer spread across the planet for all these years. Mothers, mostly stay-at-home middle class mothers did this for us. Now that organization did a lot for every one of us even for the future generations.

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Lev Yashin arrives in London for the World Cup, 1966

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Lev Yashin, 1966.

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throwback to that one time I saw someone make an edit of Snufkin with the USSR flag and physically felt my soul leave my body because of the absolute lack of self awareness

anyway reminder to not make jokes about Moomin characters (or any fictional characters for that matter!) being part of the USSR, which surprisingly enough is not the same as saying a character is a communist! the USSR flag is not the communist flag! stop fucking using it especially with characters that were created by a Finnish person! thanks I hate you specifically!