Then the whole country is an American base.

Literally an ordinary delivery rider turned writer, writing about ordinaty people’s lives.

To complete the collection, Wang interviewed about 140 delivery riders and offered small payments from his own pocket to encourage them to take part. In the end, he collected dozens of valid questionnaires.

He wanted the poems to reflect the everyday lives of delivery riders as truthfully as possible.

For him, the journey from delivery rider to award-winning poet is not simply about personal recognition. It shows that more people from different backgrounds are finding opportunities to share their stories.

Not entirely wrong for sure, but sounds like something someone who just lost their meticulously built popularity would say.

The US spent enormous resources since WWII to portray itself as the good guy on the world stage.

two Russian news agencies

Looks like he instead decided to help end the war by dying.

The official announcement DID say that the “illness” was “brief and sudden”.

Andromeda Nebula by Ivan Yefremov.

It ostensibly begins as a space exploration sci-fi, but the real focus is on exploring how a future communist society would be organized and the psychology of future communist people.

That’s technically Polish, but close enough I guess.

DPRK

The question remains, why Ukraine and not a more influential country first?

Ukraine was engaged in an ethnic cleansing campaign of Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians on Russia’s border. For years.

Yeah fuck those evil authoritarians improving people’s lives in order to trick them into supporting their comically evil agendas.

They should learn from Western Democracies that the way to rule a country is to keep alternating unpopular leaders every four years so the declining standard of living can be blamed on The Other Guy™ while simultaneously generating enough desperate people to “try something new” (a far-right party).

A much better system.

There’s still plenty of Jews outside Israel. They just need a couple well timed false-flag antisemitic incidents and they will flow into Greater Israel like moths into a lamp.

Over 1.5 billion people governed under Marxism-Leninism is not enough of an alternative?

Why not throw slavery into the mix while you’re at it.

Sounds like a target to me!

If that was the criterion, they all would be calling Trump daddy right now like a certain NATO official.

someone who is progressive at home but imperialist abroad is simply an imperialist.

Yeah, they might do some good investigative journalism on internal UK politics but they are ultimately western liberals, politically.

You are not the first person having a misguided opinion on the Soviet Union.

Shocker, I know. But it’s not necessarily your fault, obviously the bourgeoisie, who controls most of the media you have access to, makes sure to propagate those beliefs, and not only in the obvious and crude ways.

But seriously, Cowbee is one of the most prolific posters here, he has those posts ready on a couple different subjects.

I guess lemmy world will declare DW as Russian propaganda now. No other choice.

The magnets that passed the tests are 100% domestically produced, from raw materials and structural design to equipment and manufacturing processes.

Incredible pace of development, really. Even just a couple of years ago that would be impossible.