#thälmann

[tovarishfungus]

The Class E11 was the first electric locomotive class built in the GDR, with production starting in 1961. Pictured here is 211 001-3 in the Deutsche Bahn Museum in Nuremberg.

The factory where it was built carried the name of Hans Beimler, who among other things served as a political officer in the famous Thälmann-Batallion for the International Brigades in the spanish civil war, where he was killed in action. In his earlier life he was working in a locomotive factory in Nuremberg, where he was part of the works council. His Grandson (also called Hans Beimler) lives in the USA and most notably wrote for Star Trek TNG.

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[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

Coswig (Kr. Roßlau) Ernst-Thälmann-Straße

Reichenbach (Vogtl): BILD UND HEIMAT REICHENBACH (VOGTL) (A 1/B 11/87 IV-14-483 01 08 15 008)

Foto: Kampmann, Berlin

1987

[renest]

Das Hochhaus. / 04.08.2024

[geisterland]

friends hanging out in the void

[based-and-superstructure]

Always weird being at a protest and ending up carrying a banner with the three arrows symbol on it. Aha, whoops! I think I might be one of those arrows that the symbol is against! ↙️↙️↙️

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[sigalrm]

Street Art by Pascal Volk

[quoten-transe]

I met a comrade after getting my nose stabbed

[marxistlesbianist]

rip to ernst thälmann but im different

I have had this ask in my inbox for days now, and I do not understand what it could possibly mean?

[bernhard-schipper]

Monumente Sollen stehen Oder Nichts / 1991/92

Video documentary in three parts

Video documentary in three parts (1991/92) by german artist group Riefenstahl. The video is explaining the role of monuments for east german society before and after the fall of the wall in Germany.

[catgirlstalin]

the SPD (social democratic party) was actively pushing for people to vote for the conservative hindenburg and discouraged people from voting for the communist thälmann because they believed that only hindenburg could realistically beat hitler in the elections (which he did - it just didnt help, in the end). here's a poster by the SPD from the 1932 presidential election

the text says

"Who votes for Thälmann gives his vote to Hitler! Those who want to defeat Hitler, vote Hindenburg!"

they were explicitly telling people that voting for thälmann was throwing your vote away (and therefore equivalent to voting for hitler). the strategy of the SPD was to throw their entire support behind a conservative they believed could realistically win in order to prevent hitler from winning. and it very much didnt work out in the end

ultimately communists aren't even telling you not to vote, the point is that it is completely ineffective action. when you ask 'why shouldn't we vote? we can vote and do other stuff' it is as if you had been proposing prayer as a solution to fascism and scolding anyone who said otherwise - even if your argument is 'there's no reason not to try', it implies an incredible and grave misunderstanding of what is and is not an effective means of political action. like... sure. go ahead and pray, to god or to Democracy, and buy fair-trade while you're at it, but if we're being honest, here, I think the defensiveness over it shows not genuine faith, but a desperation to engage with a system that clearly does not work, but whose alternative appears scary and unclear to you.

[benkaden]

"Sonntag gab es 1 großes Schnitzel mit Spargel, Preis 3,50 M."

Ansichtskarte

SAYDA im Erzgebirge Ernst-Thälmann-Straße.

Zwickau: Fotografischer Verlag R. Kallmer, 95 Zwickau (11247 K 2/297/77 IV-14-483 A 9130)

1977

[mycstilleblog]

Sacharowa: Zerstörung des Denkmals wäre eine zweite Ermordung Thälmanns

Vielen in der Berliner Politik ist es ein Dorn im Auge, das Thälmann-Denkmal in Prenzlauer Berg. Wie es nach außen wirkt, wenn ein Denkmal für einen bedeutenden Antifaschisten angegriffen wird, lässt sich am Kommentar von Maria Sacharowa erkennen. Maria Sacharowa, die Sprecherin des russischen Außenministeriums, hat sich im Telegram-Kanal des Ministeriums zu der in Berlin immer wieder…

[geisterland]

I love having my hatred of people shipping the Nazi and the USSR validated

[proustianlesbian]

this morning i was up very early so by like 4:30 am i randomly watched this "documentary" of 30 minutes from 2005 i've been meaning to watch for weeks about an east german actor who is absolutely unknown today and there were video archives from his movies but also personal photo and video archives from his family. his wife and one of his sons were interviewed as well as two directors he worked with and there was something so sweet about how they talked about him, i could feel all their love and affection for him 🥺. i don't know, there was something so deeply human and heartwarming about it and that made me happy.

i used the automatic german subtitles and the translation but here's the youtube video.