Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments to look like Superheroes
Posted: August 20, 2014 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Russia | Tags: Bulgaria, Bulgarian Socialist Party, Flag of Ukraine, Moscow Times, Prague Spring, Sofia, Soviet, Soviet Union 2 Comments
The Moscow Times reports: Russia is demanding that Bulgaria try harder to prevent vandalism of Soviet monuments, after yet another monument to Soviet troops in Sofia was spray-painted, ITAR-Tass reported.
The Russian Embassy in Bulgaria has issued a note demanding that its former Soviet-era ally clean up the monument in Sofia’s Lozenets district, identify and punish those responsible, and take “exhaustive measures” to prevent similar attacks in the future, the news agency reported Monday.
[See also: Bulgarian Red Army Monument Painted Pink in ‘Prague Spring’ Apology]
The monument was spray-painted on the eve of the Bulgarian Socialist Party‘s celebration of its 123rd anniversary, the Sofia-based Novinite news agency reported.
The vandalism was the latest in a series of similar recent incidents in Bulgaria — each drawing angry criticism from Moscow. Read the rest of this entry »
Запрещено! Не считайте это: Inside The Soviet Union’s Massive, Secret Porno Stash
Posted: June 25, 2014 Filed under: Censorship, History, Mediasphere, Russia | Tags: Daily Caller, Genrikh Yagoda, Kama Sutra, Mikhail Kalinin, Moscow Times, RUSSIA, Russian State Library, Semyon Budyonny, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalinist 1 Comment
For The Daily Caller, Emma Colton writes: Locked up in the belly of Russia’s main library is a massive collection of porn and erotica collected by the Soviet Union, and it was allegedly visited often by Stalinist henchmen.
“We chose to preserve it intact, as a relic of the era when it was created.”
During the Soviet’s reign, the Communist Union collected pornographic material from aristocrats that was deemed “ideologically harmful,” and threw it into a padlocked room in the Russian State Library, according to The Moscow Times.
Today, over 12,000 articles of titillating books, paintings, pictures and pornos are locked away from the public in the building across from the Kremlin.
But not everything is explicitly sexual in the collection. In addition to copies of the 1970s memoir “The Happy Hooker,” and anti-homosexuality writing called “Gay is Not Good,” a coffee table book of Picasso paintings and even an album of Beatles photos can be found. Read the rest of this entry »
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