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Reminds me of that painting of a Red Army soldier gazing in amazement at the interior of the Winter Palace.


Twenty-nine years after this photograph, the Soviets started the Space Race with the world's first artificial satellite. sputnik

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[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 56 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Man: What is this WITCHCRAFT!? scared

Woman: God, is that you? biden-horror

Girl: This kind of slaps. kirby-jammin

[-] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago

Yo. I absolutely love that we can have thing like polygonal animations in the comments. How do I do this?

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago

It's possible only with the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism.

[-] replaceable@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Just embed a gif

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Emotes on hexbear can be animated

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 46 points 2 weeks ago

If the Soviet Union was truly communist, they wouldn't have peasants.

Checkmate tankies

[-] Vingst@hexbear.net 44 points 2 weeks ago
[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 51 points 2 weeks ago

Soviet peasants listen to Cumtown for the first time

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

Listening to the classic bit "gay Charlie Chaplin"

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

"Petrushka, wtf is this {redacted} shit!?"

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

That one guy has a thousand island stare

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's a thousand yard stare, you gourmand.

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

It’s five spice stare, actually

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Scary, Sporty, Baby, Ginger, and Posh?

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly!

And what other thing is Scary?

The CCP China party!

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Thousand meter stare, down with imperial system.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Cumtown 1927

The Bearded Alcoholic: What if Tchaikovsky was gay?

The Greek: cackles

[-] Poogona@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago

Great photo honestly, the gentle absurdity of it makes it feel extra real somehow

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

liberalism "But the Romanovs were just smol innocent beans and the peasents were just fine before those mean ol commies tricked them into doing a revolution."

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago

The lady has a look on her face like she's having a vision of the horrors of the future that this new contraption will bring. The man is looking at it like the gears are turning and he's envisioning cool new shit he could do with this.

They're seeing the same thing stuff

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

they are both listening to Joe Rogan talk about how Mayans invented cell phones to a guest who is a former MMA fighter / pornstar who wrote an app that uses satellites to measure black peoples' skulls from space.

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

those are suprisingly slim and form-fitting headphones for such an early stage of the technology

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I immediately thought they looked like Grado headphones.

My first pair of "good" headphones was the Grado SR-125 in 2006.

[-] Vingst@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago

they got a podcast?

[-] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

they all look like they're listening to a manosphere podcast thinking "wtf is blud talking about"

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Take bets on what you think they were listening too.

My guess is Total Eclipse of the Heart.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Video Killed the Radio Star (Time Travel Russian Remix)

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

The CIA used its infinite budget and resources to develop time travel so that they could pollute early radio broadcasts with "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions, another twisted form of pollution that came from the aforementioned infinite budget. It was all they played on Radio Free Pangaea.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Wonderwall.

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Hope they're not listening to RFE

[-] frippa@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

They're listening to talk tuah, they were shocked by its deep philosophical debates.

[-] roger_smith@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, totally! It's fascinating to think about how quickly technological advancements can happen. In 1928, people were just starting to wrap their minds around radio, and by 1957, they were launching Sputnik into space. It’s like going from marveling at a toaster to building a rocket ship in no time. Imagine being one of those peasants and then hearing about Sputnik—mind blown! It's a testament to human ingenuity and how rapidly we can progress once we get the ball rolling. It's almost like we're living in fast forward!

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

they all look like they're listening to a manosphere podcast thinking "wtf is blud talking about"

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