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Maybe you could look through Russian Wikipedia in the meantime.
Oh my god I can't believe I've been missing the forest for the trees. There's so many footnotes here.
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I appreciate it, comrades. If anything, this also builds a pretty solid case for just removing that claim from the Wiki page outright.
I've been using Citation Hunt recently and (searching for communist-related pages) came across this claim in the [Soviet Union section of the page "Abortion under communism"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_under_communism#Soviet_Union): >In 1920, Soviet Russia became the first modern country to legalize abortion.[18] **In 1933, during the Stalin era, views changed. In the Congress of Kiev in 1932, abortion was criticized for decreasing the country's birth rate. Abortion was finally banned in 1933[citation needed].** The number of officially recorded abortions dropped sharply from 1.9 million in 1935 to 570,000 in 1937, but began to climb just two years later, reaching 755,000 in 1939.[19] On November 23, 1955, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, under Nikita Khrushchev, liberalized abortion restrictions.[20] I'm now down a rabbit hole for the bolded sentences. After some cursory searching, I found a reference to Kate Millett's *Sexual Politics*, which contains the following: >At the Congress of Kiev in 1932 abortion was decried for innumerable reasons, all of which came down to authoritarian state interest in forcing women to bear children, explained as population policy (the birth rate had boomed after the revolution and now a slight decline was interpreted as catastrophic). There was much cant about "preserving the race," "humanity dying out," "morality collapsing," and so forth. The other prevailing rationale was based on an equally authoritarian distaste over the fact women now enjoyed the control of their bodies; functionaries fussed that women were no longer ashamed of abortion and now "considered it their legal right."^40^ — Millett, Kate. 2016. *Sexual Politics.* p. 172. New York: Columbia University Press. That footnote? **^40^ Quoted in Reich, *The Sexual Revolution, op. cit.,* p. 206. The speaker is Stroganov.** Finally, an answer! ...except Reich is quoting a Dr. Kirilov. And Kirilov is given no introduction or context by Reich; he only appears in the index for the pages his quote takes up: >. . . We regard the interruption of the first pregnancy as particularly dangerous in terms of the Woman's possible subsequent sterility. We therefore consider it our duty to prevent the mother from aborting and, at the same time, to ascertain why she wants an abortion. But we find in the answers scarcely anything about an inner struggle and search; in 70 percent of the cases the reason given is a '"love that failed." A brief comment such as ''He left me," "I left him," and toward the end some scornful remark about "him" or herself: "What kind of a man is he anyway?" In the women's answers *we almost never find an indication of a germinating family as the initial unit of society.* >Not free love as a protest against old bourgeois family marriage, not free love as an unconscious selection of eugenics, but a frivolous feeling culminating in the decision: to the hospital! *Unbridled haste to surrender the grown young body*, as a result of the transition to new, not yet crystallized forms that have arisen out of the sexual chaos! . . . *I have to compare work in the field of abortion with the extermination of the first-born in ancient Egypt who had to die because of the sins of their fathers* who devastated man and society. This kind of abortion must be suppressed as a socially negative, misshapen phenomenon of life. It must be replaced by a persistent effort to enlighten. A change in psychological mood, in the sense of recognizing motherhood as a social function, is absolutely mandatory. . . . Conclusions: >Criminal abortion is an evil practice based on the awareness that abortion is legal. . . . >Social abortion often wrongly protects *the distorted caricature of sexual problems* and new forms of life which have not yet crystallized It blocks the road to motherhood and often diminishes the woman's success in public life. Therefore it is alien to true communal living. *Abortion seems to be a mass means of destroying a new generation.* It does not have the inherent intention of serving mother and community and is therefore alien to the dear goals of protecting maternal health. . . . [Emphasis added.] — Reich, Wilhelm. 1974. pp.207–8. *The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-Regulating Character Structure.* Translated by Therese Pol. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I feel like I'm losing it. Does anyone know who Stroganov is? Or Dr. Kirilov? Or any information on the Congress of Kiev in 1932? Everything keeps coming back to Wikipedia or the Millet quote.
Thank you Google, who always has the ~~bourgeoisie's~~ people's best interests in mind
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It's fascinating to see—in real time—the contradiction between imperialist interests (NATO pushing Ukraine into a proxy war) and finance capital interests (ensuring Western powers maintain financial hegemony) work itself out.
Do the powers that be care more about maintaining forever war, thus bankrolling the MIC indefinitely, or ensuring USD hegemony? This article, as well as the trend of BRICS strengthening, seem to imply the former is more important to the global capitalist class.
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I can't find it, but there's a gut-wrenching excerpt from a Red Army soldier's memoir about them trying to speak different languages to the prisoners upon discovering the camp. They weren't understanding the soldiers until one spoke Yiddish, and then the prisoners' eyes lit up because they realized they were safe.
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I whitelist-enable JS with ublock on a per-site and it's so satisfying being able to fully use a website with JS disabled.
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We used to be a proper society
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I've got one right next to wear I live and it's stuck behind the door of an abandoned storefront so there's nothing I can do
> Addressing a Chambers of Commerce meeting in Boca Raton today, Zelensky thanks BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and others for their support of Ukraine. Adds that sending Ukraine heavier weapons, like Abrams tanks, represents a "big business" opportunity for US corporations
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Interesting, but also not surprising. Like I said, it works completely fine with the exception so this was more about drawing attention to the issue.
I'm running Firefox 109 with arkenfox (mostly default settings). When I try and connect to lemmygrad.ml, I'm given an `SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN` error. Once I create an exception, I can use the website like normal. Is this something going on in the backend of things or are my browser settings just too high? Note: lemmy.ml doesn't have this issue, I can connect with no warning about certificates.
hot take but CA is definitely a contender.
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Ooo I like this a lot
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For some reason TNR is one of those fonts that I don't hate, it just feels like such a "default" font (which it is for many, many people). Seeing it just makes me wish people would branch out a bit.
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gotcha gotcha. making the switch is definitely on my list of things to do.
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oh I thought the bot would automatically convert the link, but that only works with comments.
- Serif: Palatino Linotype, Garamond, Liberation Serif - Sans serif: Noto Sans Display - Monospace: Liberation Mono The sans serif and mono fonts are what I have my computer set to; they're very pleasant to the eye. For writing, I prefer serif fonts because of the improved readability with large portions of text, especially on paper.
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What's supposed to be the difference between the Ancom flag and the Ancom w/the "A"?
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C'est la vie. I added a link to the video in the post (no need to watch, just so people know what it is).
I really want to know why I got this recommended, on a music-related video of all places. Do they not know who I subscribe to? EDIT: Here's the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1DpVYqdI14) (it's a US soldiers coming home compilation).
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Update: watched it with my gf (who hasn't read the book). We both liked it.
It skips over the Cultural Revolution opening pretty much entirely and goes right into Wang's perspective, then ends a little after his first meeting with the military. Subs are solid (a lot of dialogue is directly lifted from the book!) but go a little fast. Looking forward to watching the rest of it.
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How much of the book does this episode cover?
[Tweet](https://twitter.com/SparrowEnjoyer/status/1585782377171030016?t=e8Mdtd1aISwReQ_iKT42_Q&s=19)
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Point one makes sense. The Obama blurb on the back definitely surprised me but so far I've enjoyed the book. Haven't gotten too far into it yet but it'll be interesting to see what happens with regard to point 2.
I just started *The Three-Body Problem* and have really been enjoying so far. That being said, the first chapter takes place during a struggle session at a university, where a professor is accused of reactionary thought by teaching Einstein's theory of relativity and the Big Bang Theory by his own accord in an intro physics class. Is there any historical truth to this sort of backlash, and if so, why? I'm no physicist, but I don't understand how ToR/BBT contradict dialectical materialism.
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Orientalism aside, one of my favorite symphonies. I get why *Scheherazade* gets more attention, but imo *Antar* is a masterpiece of its own, especially the first movement.
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Someone I know who's an an*rchist and vocal anti-AES shared this and I was wondering if any comrades knew more.
> China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says. [[Full article]](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/world/asia/china-covid-death-toll.html)
I currently have subscriptions for *Monthly Review* and *The Baffler*, but I'm always curious about what other people read.
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>In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom.—Michael Parenti, *Blackshirts and Reds*, 41.
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Take a drink every time they use the name "Mr. Kim".
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>the U.S. military has the distinction of being the only U.S. government agency to have never passed a comprehensive audit. >The Navy plans to expand its ship production in an effort to maintain an edge over China, with a particular focus on a new attack submarine and destroyer ship. Ah, there it is.
