Tag: Moscow
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Radio Moscow Nights and Time Zones
I know Radio Moscow not so much from my shortwave exploits (although a little, I was a World Wide Catholic Radio kind of girl…so much death, gloom and hypocrisy translated in stilted language, so little time!) but more from Time Zones by Negativland. But a friend posted about Moscow Nights by Vladimir Troshin, which I…
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Soviet posters get the pride treament
In Soviet Russia, The Pride Parades YOU! Putin yer pipe and smoke it! Love these altered old Soviet posters given the LGBTQ-friendly treatment by Pride Propaganda. (via Have A Gay Day)
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Russia – don’t go there
Well more St Petersburg, which as well as wanting to be a #1 tourist destination has just passed a Clause 28 type law banning all homosexual propaganda – yes censorship. In fact it sounds exactly like Section 28 and yes the usual emotive straw man of ‘please won’t you think of the children!’ is being…
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Iran war: WW3?
Fairly balanced video (via Pete Wallace); ignores the socialist/communist drive of the revolution though (see the likes of Persepolis which talks about that, and the ensuing brutal clampdown in the years after the 1979 revolution) and makes it out to be a purely Islamic revolution – isn’t that like saying Arab Spring was purely Islamic-focused…