Malcolm X holding an M2, looking cool as hell
Bad trigger discipline though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Standing_by_the_Crematory
This one. The cost of any war summarized in one picture.
It’s a pity that my app only shows the link text to the photograph instead of the image itself, but I’m glad, in some way, that now I am aware of the existence of such an image of loss. It’s pure loss.
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These are great. Is there a good place to get hi res print ready files for some of these and other historical noteworthy photos for personal use? Or at least sources that aren’t charging 300 dollars for something that is or should be public domain.
OP’s photo is my favorite, so I will have to mention my second favorite (though calling it a “favorite” feels off).
This photo was taken in 2003 in Iraq. This man is comforting his son. They are being held in an American camp. IIRC to this day we don’t know what happened to these two.
I think if I had to explain the last 25 years to a time-traveler, this would be the one photo I would choose.
Neocons have been dehumanising Arabs for a very long time.
US Liberals are still doing it to this day. One of their heroes, Obama, dropped an average of 80 bombs per day on the ME and North Africa.
After winning the Nobel peace prize, he dropped an average of 30k bombs / year (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries, 2, 3. In 2016 alone, dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia.
Had never seen that one. Powerful.
The “Pale Blue Dot” image of earth taken by Voyager 1. Carl Sagan pushed to have Voyager take a parting shot before they turned off the camera. The earth is about one pixel in size.
Called “Earthrise”, taken during the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968. Always tried to imagine what it was like to have had that view IRL.
President Taft riding a water buffalo. Always gives me a chuckle.
Free Huey is a great one:
Maybe that time a dove landed on Fidel’s shoulder during a speech right after the victory of the Cuban revolution.
This one really affected me. It’s one of the first images from the surface of Mars. I was quite young, and it clicked in me that other planets actually exists and are out there in space.
It reminds me of places like the Nevada desert.
It hasn’t happened yet. Not much longer though maybe 10 years at most.
Yury Gagarin and Gina Lollobrigida. First man into space and one of the most famous actresses back then.
Great post and I really enjoyed the replies. Mine is of Chavez visiting Castro in 2006 in Havanna, as Castro was dying of cancer. Both men were imprisoned for a failed coup but later rose to power (Chavez democratically and Castro by revolutionary liberation of the country), and both men died in a hospital bed in their respective countries in 2013.
and both men died in a hospital bed in their respective countries in 2013.
A fact the US bitterly weeps about still
There’s a good chance the US actually did kill Chavez with a slow-acting poison of some kind. You can find a lot of articles about his rapid deterioration.
They still would have preferred him rotting at Guantanamo, isolated of his loved ones, with Juan Guaido as president of Venezuela, giving away all the oil he could to American companies. I’ll take it like a win.
There’s a good chance the US actually did kill Chavez with a slow-acting poison of some kind.
Well that fucking sucks.
Indeed! Castro famously opted for a moral vest over kevlar when visiting the US.
Because it’s a nice innocent photo of a man walking with nobody on his left side.
Just a random man, no one important in particular.
It doesn’t look like anything to me, comrade.
Communists defeated fascism.
We won 20th century.
We will win 21st century.
Seeing how things are now, I don’t think communists can take much more of this winning
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The Black Book of Communism was debunked by its own writers. Conquest was described as obsessed with reaching 100 million, and to do so he included Nazis killed during World War II, non-births as deaths, made up numbers, dramatically exaggerated existing events, and more. Citing the 100 million number in the modern day when even those that helped invent that claim have since denounced it isn’t particularly historically truthful.
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Independent scholars across China, the USSR, Cambodia, Ethiopia, and North Korea all documented millions upon millions upon millions of deaths from engineered famines, purges, forced labor camps, and political executions.
Who are these “independent scholars?” No modern historian using data from the soviet archives, or other such reputable source, believes that there were “engineered famines” in socialist countries. Famine existed, and was in all cases a common phenomenon pre-socialism, ended by the communists. The highest plausible death total from purges in the soviet union is around 700,000, though actual analysis shows that this number is simply those condemned to death, when it was common for the soviets to walk back death condemnations, meaning total executions is far below. The majority of deaths in socialist prisons came from starvation during World War II, when the Nazis took Ukraine, the USSR’s bread basket.
Adding on to this, Cambodia’s “agrarian communism” isn’t recognized by the overwhelming majority of Marxists as actually socialism. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge denounced Marxism, and they worked with the US Empire, being stopped by the Vietnamese communists.
To the contrary, millions of deaths from engineered famines have been proven by capitalists, such as the Bengal Famine by Churchill. Churchill had this to say:
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.
There is also the capitalist Nazi Germany, which inflicted the holocaust, murdering tens of millions in around a decade.
Whether the exact total is 60 million, 80 million, or more, the sheer magnitude is confirmed far beyond the Black Book.
The sheer magnitude is confirmed to have been far less both in ratio and in total than capitalism.
Facts: Communist governments were responsible for mass mortality on a historic scale.
To the contrary, communist governments have been responsible for mass uplifting in life expectancy and poverty eradication on a historic scale. From the USSR:
To the PRC:
Communists have been responsible for doubling life expectancy, tripling literacy rates, eradicating poverty, rapidly improving production and distribution, democratizing society, and far more.
All photos are historical photos. That’s a lot to choose from.
Only photos that made history are historical
If they made history, then they are historic, not historical. Well, they’re historical too, to be fair.
