It was thrilling in 1991 when Russians tore down "Iron Felix." But, under Putin, Russia has now been re-Sovietized.
A city in Russia’s Far East unveiled a new statue to Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky to the sound of the main theme from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Russian city unveils monument to Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky to the sound of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ — Meduza
The city of Nakhodka in Russia’s Far Eastern Primorsky region has become the latest locality in the country to put up a new statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet secret police.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It was thrilling in 1991 when Russians tore down "Iron Felix." But, under Putin, Russia has now been re-Sovietized.
Still recognized as one of the indigenous minorities of Poland, something which have benefitted new diaspora wanting to integrate, and old diaspora wanting to revitalize Armenian culture among Sovietized immigrants. Down to a school in Kraków teaching Armenian as primary part of cirriculum.
May 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Still recognized as one of the indigenous minorities of Poland, something which have benefitted new diaspora wanting to integrate, and old diaspora wanting to revitalize Armenian culture among Sovietized immigrants. Down to a school in Kraków teaching Armenian as primary part of cirriculum.
remember when obummer sovietized general motors?
August 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
remember when obummer sovietized general motors?
No, they did not!
The 1941 Sovietized 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹countries were nationalized and primed for war utilization.
Exactly what Nazi Germany needed.
In the 3 year German occupation, they changed the names of some departments, changed the language on the forms to German and continued on.
The 1941 Sovietized 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹countries were nationalized and primed for war utilization.
Exactly what Nazi Germany needed.
In the 3 year German occupation, they changed the names of some departments, changed the language on the forms to German and continued on.
July 29, 2026 at 7:17 AM
No, they did not!
The 1941 Sovietized 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹countries were nationalized and primed for war utilization.
Exactly what Nazi Germany needed.
In the 3 year German occupation, they changed the names of some departments, changed the language on the forms to German and continued on.
The 1941 Sovietized 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹countries were nationalized and primed for war utilization.
Exactly what Nazi Germany needed.
In the 3 year German occupation, they changed the names of some departments, changed the language on the forms to German and continued on.
Frozen conflict AND "Watch out everywhere else that borders Russia" is the most likely result of all this.
Effectively, this is eventually going to firm up as Cold War style defensive lines all the way around a fully re-Sovietized Russia...and wherever else they can turn into a satellite state.
Effectively, this is eventually going to firm up as Cold War style defensive lines all the way around a fully re-Sovietized Russia...and wherever else they can turn into a satellite state.
January 25, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Frozen conflict AND "Watch out everywhere else that borders Russia" is the most likely result of all this.
Effectively, this is eventually going to firm up as Cold War style defensive lines all the way around a fully re-Sovietized Russia...and wherever else they can turn into a satellite state.
Effectively, this is eventually going to firm up as Cold War style defensive lines all the way around a fully re-Sovietized Russia...and wherever else they can turn into a satellite state.
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Only Soviet and neoclassical economics assume we live in a computable world, and so they converge on the same, grim statecraft. A Sovietized public sector and a private sector presumed to be efficient = stupidity. If the whole economy isn’t planned, what are doctors supposed to do about weak demand?
February 25, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Only Soviet and neoclassical economics assume we live in a computable world, and so they converge on the same, grim statecraft. A Sovietized public sector and a private sector presumed to be efficient = stupidity. If the whole economy isn’t planned, what are doctors supposed to do about weak demand?
Is Russian economy becoming more Sovietized? Can market instrument be enough to manage war-time challenges?
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Gosplan 2.0 or the Market: Is Russia Heading Toward a Soviet Economy? – Riddle Russia
Mikhail Zhadovsky on Market Mechanisms and Elite Interests as Barriers to a Planned System
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September 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Is Russian economy becoming more Sovietized? Can market instrument be enough to manage war-time challenges?
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Trump has Sovietized the Republican Party.
June 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Trump has Sovietized the Republican Party.
I don’t think so. More like turkeys response to Syria. Azeris are pretty Sovietized in the way the Iranians aren’t so it would be like Ukrainians rushing to save Manitoba from Americans.
June 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I don’t think so. More like turkeys response to Syria. Azeris are pretty Sovietized in the way the Iranians aren’t so it would be like Ukrainians rushing to save Manitoba from Americans.
We have been sovietized
January 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We have been sovietized
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There have always been young people who gravitated to that shit, like we've both said before maybe it's just the *Idea* of Revolution.
The ones I don't understand and won't forgive are the old Republicans who've embraced Putin and his re-Sovietized Russia even though they're old enough to remember.
The ones I don't understand and won't forgive are the old Republicans who've embraced Putin and his re-Sovietized Russia even though they're old enough to remember.
April 7, 2024 at 1:08 PM
There have always been young people who gravitated to that shit, like we've both said before maybe it's just the *Idea* of Revolution.
The ones I don't understand and won't forgive are the old Republicans who've embraced Putin and his re-Sovietized Russia even though they're old enough to remember.
The ones I don't understand and won't forgive are the old Republicans who've embraced Putin and his re-Sovietized Russia even though they're old enough to remember.
Mind you Riga is not Stockholm (though it looks like sovietized one a bit) or Helsinki, tunneling there is playing on hard, not easy, it's clay and slightly solidified shit, not solid rock...
July 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Mind you Riga is not Stockholm (though it looks like sovietized one a bit) or Helsinki, tunneling there is playing on hard, not easy, it's clay and slightly solidified shit, not solid rock...
America is becoming Russia also in that sense.
The tragedy with Russia is that its people have a sovietized slave mentality. They really do not care what happens to people - sometimes even including family members and even themselves.
The tragedy with Russia is that its people have a sovietized slave mentality. They really do not care what happens to people - sometimes even including family members and even themselves.
April 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
America is becoming Russia also in that sense.
The tragedy with Russia is that its people have a sovietized slave mentality. They really do not care what happens to people - sometimes even including family members and even themselves.
The tragedy with Russia is that its people have a sovietized slave mentality. They really do not care what happens to people - sometimes even including family members and even themselves.
I don't know, to me, Russia scans as a pretty damn "Evil Empire" now, just like it did 40 years ago...and it's effectively not only been re-Sovietized but they seem intent on going full totalitarian with war as an ultimate goal.
That seems pretty evil to *Me* why not to those people, also??
That seems pretty evil to *Me* why not to those people, also??
I think it's really as simple as that, for them. The USA is not just AN evil empire, it is THE evil empire, the world's only one, and Israel is also the USA, it only pretends to be a separate state, so wiping out both states would free the world, and then all good people would do good.
April 15, 2024 at 12:32 PM
I don't know, to me, Russia scans as a pretty damn "Evil Empire" now, just like it did 40 years ago...and it's effectively not only been re-Sovietized but they seem intent on going full totalitarian with war as an ultimate goal.
That seems pretty evil to *Me* why not to those people, also??
That seems pretty evil to *Me* why not to those people, also??
No, I believe tankie is a specific phrase used in the Cold War from 1956 onward to describe communist parties and left flank orgs in big tent left parties (e.g. Labour) who supported the invasion of Hungary and later Czechoslovakia, to the exclusion of ones that de-Sovietized in response thereto.
April 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
No, I believe tankie is a specific phrase used in the Cold War from 1956 onward to describe communist parties and left flank orgs in big tent left parties (e.g. Labour) who supported the invasion of Hungary and later Czechoslovakia, to the exclusion of ones that de-Sovietized in response thereto.
It's always amazed and impressed me how the Eastern European countries managed to come out of the Soviet era with their nations, their history and their culture intact. Most of us in the West really didn't know to what extent they had been Sovietized/russified while behind the Iron Curtain.
February 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's always amazed and impressed me how the Eastern European countries managed to come out of the Soviet era with their nations, their history and their culture intact. Most of us in the West really didn't know to what extent they had been Sovietized/russified while behind the Iron Curtain.
I remember the Batista era of Cuba. A real mafia hangout. Castro was a celebrity challenger to the corruption of Batista before he Sovietized himself and Cuba.
March 7, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I remember the Batista era of Cuba. A real mafia hangout. Castro was a celebrity challenger to the corruption of Batista before he Sovietized himself and Cuba.
What opposition?
Since 1974 it's mostly been Communist or Socialist parties ruling the country.
Their own enegetic sector was sold by the government and privatised.
They demolished their own industry.
They regularly chokehold their fishermen to sell fishing quotas to the Chinese.
Sovietized.
Since 1974 it's mostly been Communist or Socialist parties ruling the country.
Their own enegetic sector was sold by the government and privatised.
They demolished their own industry.
They regularly chokehold their fishermen to sell fishing quotas to the Chinese.
Sovietized.
September 14, 2026 at 10:25 AM
What opposition?
Since 1974 it's mostly been Communist or Socialist parties ruling the country.
Their own enegetic sector was sold by the government and privatised.
They demolished their own industry.
They regularly chokehold their fishermen to sell fishing quotas to the Chinese.
Sovietized.
Since 1974 it's mostly been Communist or Socialist parties ruling the country.
Their own enegetic sector was sold by the government and privatised.
They demolished their own industry.
They regularly chokehold their fishermen to sell fishing quotas to the Chinese.
Sovietized.
Some of the drift is because of Sovietization, the USSR was very interested in codifying languages and standardizing them for the purpose of the imperial apparatus having an easier time with cultural control. Places that were never Sovietized didn't undergo the same tampering.
December 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Some of the drift is because of Sovietization, the USSR was very interested in codifying languages and standardizing them for the purpose of the imperial apparatus having an easier time with cultural control. Places that were never Sovietized didn't undergo the same tampering.
After the coup, between 1948–1952, the structure and management of prisons were gradually sovietized. During this time, Czechoslovakia operated 400 judicial prisons, correctional institutions, and labor camps, holding 40,000 people—at least a third of them assigned to forced labor in mines."
February 19, 2026 at 1:10 PM
After the coup, between 1948–1952, the structure and management of prisons were gradually sovietized. During this time, Czechoslovakia operated 400 judicial prisons, correctional institutions, and labor camps, holding 40,000 people—at least a third of them assigned to forced labor in mines."
I mean in the sense of OG tankies. Most Western communist parties de-Sovietized after 1956 and 1968 and shifted to a neither-Washington-nor-Moscow stance. Maki remained Soviet-aligned until after the bitter end (Tamar Gozansky supported the coup attempt against Gorbachev).
February 24, 2026 at 1:42 PM
I mean in the sense of OG tankies. Most Western communist parties de-Sovietized after 1956 and 1968 and shifted to a neither-Washington-nor-Moscow stance. Maki remained Soviet-aligned until after the bitter end (Tamar Gozansky supported the coup attempt against Gorbachev).
Note - just as important, it is what the RUs will have to do - Putin's war has created a great number of UKR patriots. They would have to be broken by horrific persecution, a'la Chechnya for a Sovietized or even "neutral" UKR to function.
This is what russia would do all over Ukraine if it managed to establish control. Anyone who has worked to build the independent Ukrainian state and refuses to collaborate would be vulnerable.
The mayor of the temporarily occupied city of Dniprorudne in Zaporizhzhia region, Yevhen Matveev, who was abducted by russian forces over 2 years ago, was tortured while in captivity.
His body was returned to Ukraine during the latest prisoner exchange.
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His body was returned to Ukraine during the latest prisoner exchange.
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December 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Note - just as important, it is what the RUs will have to do - Putin's war has created a great number of UKR patriots. They would have to be broken by horrific persecution, a'la Chechnya for a Sovietized or even "neutral" UKR to function.
Aggressive toxic masculinity has at its core a hierarchical mindset. All the men sort themselves by assholishness, abuse those beneath him and cowardly appease those above. The exact opposite of the American lone badass individualist archetype. America is fully sovietized now. Congrats.
So weird that conservatives are simultaneously obsessed with projecting aggressive toxic masculinity AND obsessed with groveling abjectly at the feet of Temu Ozymandias.
March 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Aggressive toxic masculinity has at its core a hierarchical mindset. All the men sort themselves by assholishness, abuse those beneath him and cowardly appease those above. The exact opposite of the American lone badass individualist archetype. America is fully sovietized now. Congrats.