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thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net to judaism@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months ago

"Literacy is the path to communism." A Yiddish poster promoting education among Jewish peasants in the USSR, 1920

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"Literacy is the path to communism." A Yiddish poster promoting education among Jewish peasants in the USSR, 1920

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thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net to judaism@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months ago
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  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Communists 🤝 Anticommunists
    “Literacy leads to communism”

    • jaywalker [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      Does that guy think it’s a flex to have the same ideology as an illiterate old man?

      • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        If committing nuclear self-death was a flex, these people would be up to it, so YES.

  • ProjectCyberSin [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    This is the cover of the excellent book Red Star over the Third World by VJ Prashad

  • SteamedHamberder [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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    Can anyone help with the Russian on the pages? I can make out “proletari”

    • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      “Workers of the world unite” in Russian.

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    The best part about this poster telling people to learn to read is that it presents the viewer with writing in two different languages.

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    he-admit-it

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Fuck, that would be fucking awesome poster.

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