https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Deep_Space_Network

In 2010 it was refurbished and is now used by the local observatory.

https://sudonull.com/post/23009-The-forgotten-giant-TNA-1500-radio-telescope

The Kalyazin Observatory is engaged in radio-spectral astronomical research, pulsar research, as well as the search for galactic, extragalactic objects and the acquisition of data from cosmically distant satellites. The observatory has a permanent staff of 10 employees.

Just wanted to share some artwork from stamps from the USSR.

Spanning 700 metres (2,300 ft) in length and 150 metres (490 ft) in height, the Duga (Russian: Дуга́, lit. 'arc' or 'curve') was an over-the-horizon system used in the Soviet Union as part of its early-warning radar network for missile defense.

The duga system was extremely powerful, reaching over 10 MW, and emitted in the shortwave radio bands. It was given the nickname Russian Woodpecker by shortwave listeners for its emissions randomly appearing and sounding like sharp, repetitive tapping noises at a frequency of 10 Hz.

Soviet art and media was so far ahead of its time its insane. Lots of modern capitalists still depict Blacks with racist caricatures. Soviet cartoons in the 60s and before depicted the truth of imperialism and what oppressed peoples do in order to fight against it heroically.

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Im sorry stalinerds this is one of the most regime paintings

Nina Andreyeva is a name all should know and be educated. She was at the front of the true communists agitating against perestroika and glasnost, and for the restoration of socialism in the USSR. This essay divided the Soviet Union when it was published, and heightened the communist resistance to the perestroika reforms as half the soviet union cried for socialism! This should be read by every Marxist Leninist as a source of hope and inspiration. The Soviet Union did not go down without a fight! They were fighting until the very end.

Advocate for Restalinization, a return to socialist economics, and a against opportunism and subversion. She is an inspiration to all for standing against revisionism and socialist deconstruction. The last Chairman of the CPSU(B), and die hard communist until she died in 2020. Nina Andreyeva, Grigory Romanov, Boris Pugo, Gennady Yannayev, and other true communists who fought for the preservation of soviet socialism should be honored for all time.

I want to learn more about the resistance to gorbachev and what sectors enabled the right's rise to power. betrayal from within the party is disastrous and learning from this is necessary to help make sure we dont repeat their mistakes.

Since insight into how the eastern bloc actually functioned and existed is quite rare even among communist circles, it is important we learn all we can about them. We should imitate its successes and solve its issues, not discard something so important.

Im doing an alternate history scenario with a friend and this is my map for 1980. I wanted some fresh eyes to look at this and give some history changes.

the only relavent alteration of history i have here is that I changed the result of the Ecuadorian elections which made it less dependent on the USA.