November 13, 1989

[Martin Antonenko]

Erich Mielke and the love...


On November 13, 1989, the Minister for State Security, Erich Mielke, who had been all-powerful until recently, gave a speech in front of the People's Chamber of the GDR that went down in history...:



Mielke, who during his tenure with his all-encompassing spy apparatus had brought hundreds of thousands of sufferings to mostly innocent citizens of the GDR, was initially approached by members of parliament during his speech because he always addressed them as “comrades”. Now he is accused of not only having comrades (i.e. members of the SED) in the hall.

The minister then babbles something about "formal questions"...

In the face of massive accusations from the plenary session and repeated requests to justify his actions, he stammers...:



"I love - I love everyone - all people - well, I love - I'm committed to it...!"

Loud laughter from the deputies can be heard from the hall on tape recordings. The formerly all-powerful Mielke has to break off his speech...

In the first secret election that the People's Chamber had ever held since its inception, Hans Modrow, first secretary of the district leadership of the SED in Dresden, had been elected the new chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the GDR...:



Behind Modrow is the new President of the People's Chamber, Günther Maleuda, who was also secretly elected for the first time.

Mielke's ridiculous appearance in front of Parliament, however, the reaction of the MPs - shows the whole world: The unjust regime of the GDR is at the end...!

https://figure-mad.com/smf2/index.php?action=reporttm;topic=2277.9;msg=118244

 

[Martin Antonenko]

As it became known yesterday, before their hasty retreat from Cherson, the Russians found the bones of Tsarina Catherine II's secret husband, Prince Grigory Potemkin Tavrichevsky (of Tauria).



...who was buried at Cherson...



... dug up, stolen and taken to Russia!

Potemkin conquered the south and Crimea for Russia on behalf of the tsarina.

For this he was given the nickname "Tavritchevsky" by the tsarina and presented with a huge palace in Saint Petersburg.



This "Tauric Palace" stands to this day and played an important role during the 1917 revolution when it was the seat of the Provisional Government and the State Duma (parliament)...





However, one cannot hide the fact that things are not looking much better on the Ukrainian side either - fanatical nationalists are also busy here!

This is how the monument to TsarinaEkaterina II at Odessa...



... on whose orders the city was founded and which survived two world wars and the Bolsheviks unscathed...



... first desecrated by an "artist" named Vladislav Balinskyj...



... then ten days ago covered by the city administration...





... and will probably be dismantled shortly! "The voice of the people" (not the majority but always the loudest screamers!) demands it!

In addition, efforts are currently underway in many cities in Ukraine to change street names reminiscent of famous Russians - especially streets named after Aleksandr Pushkin and Lev Tolstoy, which exist in every Ukrainian (and also Russian!) city.

It is probably useless to recall that both Pushkin and Tolstoy gave infinitely to the world (not only Russians and Ukrainians!) and both stood in strict opposition to the Russian state and were persecuted for it by the secret police - Tolstoy was even hunted down by excommunicated from the Church.

The stubborn iconoclasts on both sides will probably prevail...
Cheers

 

[Nap]

Both interesting to look through

Cheers

Nap