Openwatermelon

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Comparto este video que lanzaron ayer Silvio Rodríguez y Chico Buarque; los fondos que se recaben serán donados a la Sala de Pediatría del Instituto de Oncología de Cuba, así que si queréis verlo, darle like y compartirlo con otras personas, es un pequeño grano de arena para aliviar la difícil situación en que se encuentran.
El vídeo es precioso y presenta esa Habana tan digna como empobrecida.
https://t.co/AVk6LbJAI7

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

I have compiled a list of 100 accusations I have heard over the years against Joseph Stalin, and I have addressed every single one of them. Since this will be a very long series, I will pin this post and continue adding to it as a thread over the next few days.

Accusation #1:

Stalin personally orchestrated the Great Purge, killing 750,000 or more innocent people in a paranoid bloodbath.

Answer:

The standard Western narrative portrays the Great Purge as the irrational outburst of a single paranoid dictator personally directing mass terror with omnipotent precision. However, once Soviet archives were opened and historians gained access to internal documentation rather than Cold War speculation, that simplistic picture became much harder to sustain.

The reality is far more complex. Much of what occurred during the Purge was driven not only from above, but also from below by regional party officials, NKVD officers, ambitious bureaucrats, personal vendettas, false denunciations, and local power struggles. The Soviet system in the late 1930s was not a perfectly centralized machine where Stalin personally controlled every arrest, interrogation, or sentence across eleven time zones.

Historian J. Arch Getty, one of the most respected Western scholars of the Soviet archives and by no means a Stalinist, argued that the Purge has been heavily mythologized in Western memory. His archival research showed that regional NKVD officials often escalated arrests far beyond central directives in attempts to demonstrate revolutionary zeal and political loyalty. In many cases, the central leadership was reacting to a rapidly spiraling security crisis rather than calmly orchestrating every aspect of it from the Kremlin.

The often-cited figure of roughly 750,000 executions during the peak years of the Purge is tragic, but it also deserves context. During Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign, there were clear political incentives to portray Stalin in the darkest possible light in order to legitimize Khrushchev's own leadership. During the Cold War, Western writers routinely inflated the numbers into the millions. Once the archives opened after 1991, many of those exaggerated claims quietly collapsed.

The numbers commonly repeated in popular discourse also fail to distinguish between executions, imprisonments, investigations, and releases. Many people who entered the system were eventually released after serving sentences. This does not erase the injustices that occurred, but it contradicts the image of the USSR as a giant death machine exterminating everyone who crossed Stalin's path.

Most importantly, the Soviet Union in the 1930s was not operating in a peaceful environment. Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and other hostile powers were actively conducting espionage and sabotage operations against the USSR. Soviet fears of infiltration were not imaginary. Foreign intelligence networks inside the Soviet Union were real, documented, and dangerous.

By the late 1930s, Soviet leadership believed another catastrophic war was approaching, and history proved them correct. Within a few years, the USSR would face the deadliest invasion in human history. In that atmosphere, the Soviet state adopted extreme security measures that often swept up innocent people alongside genuine conspirators and hostile actors.

None of this means every arrest was justified or every sentence was fair. Serious abuses unquestionably occurred, and innocent people suffered. But portraying Stalin as a crazed tyrant murdering hundreds of thousands purely out of personal paranoia ignores the broader geopolitical reality, the role of lower-level officials, the archival revisions after the collapse of the USSR, and the real security threats facing the Soviet state at the time.

It was a harsh and often brutal episode that unfolded in a country preparing for what would soon become an existential war against some of the most destructive forces of the twentieth century.

[Paco Arnau @ciudadfutura]

Mal que te pese, hoy es el Día de la Victoria sobre el nazifascismo.

[Openwatermelon @Openwatermelon]

@vonderleyen

[Rusia en España @EmbajadaRusaES]

📆 Hoy, el 9 de mayo, se celebra el 81.º Aniversario de la Victoria en la Gran Guerra Patria.

🕯️Más de 27 millones de ciudadanos soviéticos perdieron la vida defendiendo su soberanía y asegurando la paz para toda la humanidad.

¡Su hazaña nunca será olvidada!

#Victoria81

[КПРФ @kprf]

Великая Победа — наша гордость и ответственность!

Поздравление Председателя ЦК КПРФ Г.А. Зюганова с Днем Победы

https://t.co/eln80zU1Vc

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

I heard that one of the 15 conditions set by the U.S. was that we @IraninSA should not publish posts.😁

Don't worry, this condition was not accepted.

Just4fun

[Embajada de Irán en España @IraninSpain]

El mundo sería más seguro si el conejo tuviera el micrófono 😎

[Víctor García Guerrero @VictorGGuerrero]

La destrucción de Naqoura. Israel aplica en el Líbano la doctrina de Gaza ante el mismo silencio de los cómplices.

[Iran Embassy in Cuba @IraninCuba]

Un piloto estadounidense derribado ha acaparado más atención mediática que más de 100 colegialas masacradas por un piloto estadounidense en Irán.

Esta es la maquinaria mediática que pretende narrar la verdad.

[Embajada de Irán en España @IraninSpain]

¿Edad de Piedra!?
Cuando tus antepasados todavía buscaban fuego en cuevas,
El Imperio iraní ya se extendía por gran parte del mundo.
Así que cállate y lárgate.
https://t.co/QIFIZNtNvS
#EjeAgresorEpsteiniano
#EstadoCanalla

[Embajada de Rusia en Cuba @EmbRusCuba]

🫂 Es un deber ayudar a nuestros hermanos cubanos en estas difíciles condiciones!

#CubaNoEstaSóla

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

Сообщения президента Путина и поддержка российского народа вдохновляют нас в этой войне.
Сопротивление и мужество иранског�� народа обещая новые узы, которые обеспечат безопасность Восточной Азии странами региона. От имени народа Ирана благодарю правительство и народ России.

[Embajada de Irán en España @IraninSpain]

@elmundoes Propaganda descaradamente vergonzosa, falsa y burda. Va en contra del sentido común hablar ridículamente de “millones” de iraníes que desean ser bombardeados por un agresor extranjero.

[antonio saceda @sacedator]

Más de 70.000 civiles asesinados por el sionismo criminal en Gaza, 30.000 de ellos niños, hija de puta.

[Pascual Serrano @pascual_serrano]

¿Sois conscientes de que os han convencido de que el de la derecha (Pete Hegseth, secretario de la Guerra de EEUU) es la civilización y el de la izquierda (Abbas Araghchi, ministro Exteriores de Irán), la barbarie?

[errordesconocido @errordesconocid]

El mismo día que Pedro Sánchez se reune con el banderista Zelensky para donarle generadores eléctricos, Rusia envía dos petroleros a un país de nuestra comunidad histórica para que resista un asedio criminal que España ni siquiera ha condenado.

[errordesconocido @errordesconocid]

Lo que tendrían que estar entregando a Cuba, que sufre un asedio medieval, se lo entregan a un régimen de extrema derecha.

[Cancillería de Rusia 🇷🇺 @mae_rusia]

❗️Condenamos enérgicamente los intentos de injerencia en los asuntos internos de #Cuba, las intimidaciones y la aplicación de medidas restrictivas unilaterales ilegales.

Seguiremos brindando a Cuba el apoyo necesario, incluso el apoyo material.

📄 https://t.co/a456Nj43pe

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

"لسنا أفضل من أهل غزة وابني هذا لا يختلف عن أطفالها الشهداء، نحن نقاتل من أجلهم ومن أجل أبنائنا ليعيشوا مستقبلًا أفضل.
فإن لم يقف أحد في وجه هذا الظلم سيستمر العالم في الانحدار، لا بد أن يقف أحد ليضع حدًا للطغيان ويُلجم الطغاة."
- كلمات لسيّدة من إيران