Nešto se, drugovi, veliko dešava u Rusiji!

Francisco Núñez Olivera (born 13 December 1904), at age 112 years, 324 days, is a Spanish supercentenarian. Since the death of Yisrael Kristal on 11 August 2017, he is believed to be the world's oldest man. He was born in Extremadura and joined the army at the age of 19 to fight in the Rif War. He had his kidney removed when he was 90 and a cataract operation aged 98, and is a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. He was nicknamed "Marchena" after his resemblance to native flamenco singer-songwriter/actor Pepe Marchena.

Zuper wrote:E, pa drugovi, cestitam na velikoj godisnjici.
Pozdravljam vasu godisnjicu prigodnom pesmom

sejlor wrote:Kasne, ovo jos nije online.  






Crisis and Critique
October 16 at 1:13pm · 
Table of Contents of the forthcoming issue (4.2)
...
Lenin and Electricity, Jean-Luc Nancy
...

Kinder Lad wrote:Trebalo je da uspeju Menjševici  

Ali nije moglo...ali trebalo je...ali nije moglo...ali trebalo je...ali nije moglo...ali trebalo je...

Kinder Lad wrote:Ko da je to bitno u socijalno odgovornom parlamentarizmu i demokratiji, pa zasta postoje koalicione vlade 

In 1918, in the midst of civil war, an international economic blockade, and foreign military intervention in the new Soviet Republics, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in “An Open Letter to the Workers”, wrote: “The twin fires of war and revolution have devastated both our souls and our cities.  The palaces of yesterday’s grandeur stand as burnt-out skeletons. The ruined cities await new builders[…]To you who accept the legacy of Russia, to you who will (I believe!) tomorrow become masters of the whole world, I address the question: with what fantastic structures will you cover the fires of yesterday?”

For modernist and avant-garde architects, the enormous budget of the five-year plans provided the opportunity to realize their visions at the level of totality. In the midst of revolution, economic depression, political uncertainty, and the collapse of the old world, the modernists felt they were being granted their deepest wish of erecting a new society on the ashes of that which preceded it. In the words of I. Chernia, “Utopia transforms itself into actuality. The fairy tale becomes a reality.”

In the years of the civil war, avant garde artists frequently celebrated the socialist government in public spaces – architect Nikolai Kolli, for example, symbolised the revolutionary war with the sculpture of a red wedge breaking a white block. El Lissitzky celebrated the murdered communist leader Rosa Luxemburg with a monument in the form of various polygonal shapes flying around a central red circle, and designed a lithographic poster now popularly known as Beat the Whites with a Red Wedge, which has a red wedge smashing into a white-and-black block. Between 1928 and 1937, the most brilliant avant-garde minds of the world gathered in Russia to put forth their proposals of how to construct the cities of a radically new society. It was believed that from this new environment would emerge the new, emancipated man.
 
Meanwhile, the already popular sport continued to grow, and soon, football, alongside art and literature, became an important cultural exponent of Soviet Russia. Football in Tsarist Russia was heavily influenced by the British, and after the revolution, the USSR was restricted from playing foreign sides. Thus, as the world shifted to Herbert Chapman’s W-M formation, teams in the USSR kept playing with a 2-3-5. All that changed when, in 1937, at the height of the civil war in Spain, a Basque national team toured the USSR to raise funds and create awareness about the republican resistance to Franco’s fascist forces. 


...