Hammer and Sickle

Appeal - Burglary, West Kirkby (Merseyside Police)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016

(Source. Merseyside Police). Merseyside Police is appealing for the public's help after jewellery was stolen from a house in West Kirkby. On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 the victim left a property on Column Road at about 11am and returned at 8pm after a house alarm alerted police ... Some were stamped with the numbers 585 and 583, some with a hammer and a sickle inside a star and others are stamped with a face ... (noodl. 34235882) ....

Insider's guide to Tbilisi: protests, free wine and salted fish

Edit The Guardian 20 Jun 2016

Cities is supported by. Rockefeller Foundation. In five words. The city that loves you ... “The city that loves you.” Sound of the city ... Best building. Twitter ... And the worst. Twitter ... The look on the street. Twitter ... Twitter ... Behind a pair of iron doors emblazoned with a large hammer and sickle, visitors can take a step back in time in a museum preserving the illegal printing press used by the young Josef Stalin at the turn of the 20th century ... ">....

The history shop of Herat

Edit Indian Express 19 Jun 2016

Rubab player Abdul Qadir. The entrance to the “history” shop is from a back street behind Herat’s great mosque. Inside, evidence of time lies strewn about, with careless disorder that belies its value ... The history shop is the custodian of the wonders the young prince would have seen ... In the shop, these years are represented too, a brass belt buckle bearing the Soviet Union’s hammer and sickle, old fur hats, and military compasses....

Red Air: Aggressors’ experience provides life-saving training (Eielson Air Force Base)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Jun 2016

(Source. Eielson Air Force Base) EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- ... Pilots from the 18th Aggressor Squadron take the role of 'Red Air' during large scale exercises and train 'Blue Air' pilots during RED FLAG-Alaska. Using a red star, overlaid by a target on the sleeves of their green flight suits and red flags with a hammer and sickle, they're marked throughout the mission as experts in enemy tactics ... Col ... An 'outside' perspective ... (noodl....

Viktor Korchnoi: Chess Grandmaster, Soviet Defector, Pugnacious Competitor

Edit The American Spectator 13 Jun 2016

Almost anything associated with the Cold War appears to be an anachronism these days. Today’s college graduates never saw the hammer and sickle fly over the Kremlin, the deadly wall that cut Berlin in half, or defectors leave home in search of that most precious human commodity, liberty. Even for those of us with a few more years under our belt, such memories are fading. Still, 1989 remains an extraordinary moment ... But I gave up hope ... ....

Unidos Podemos: Spain's leftwing alliance hoping to end political impasse

Edit The Guardian 12 Jun 2016

Grouping of Podemos and United Left (IU) could, polls suggest, beat once dominant PSOE and have chance to form government. Pablo Bustinduy is a typical Podemos MP ... “What happened was nothing short of revolutionary ... There is discomfort in some parts of the Podemos leadership at the idea of campaigning together, with the party’s carefully honed mainstream messaging disrupted by hammer and sickle flags, and anti-capitalist rhetoric ... ....

There’s one thing dividing New Yorkers: Bill de Blasio

Edit New York Post 12 Jun 2016

Here’s the Bill de Blasio arithmetic for New York City. 2-1+1=2. The story of New York is “A Tale of Two Cities,” he said in his 2013 mayoral campaign ... It’s still two cities ... What exactly did white liberals think they were getting when they elected this guy who worked for the Sandinista regime and spent his honeymoon in communist Cuba? The man’s sympathies could hardly be more clear if he had a tattoo of a hammer and sickle on his cheek....

Fear is not Islamic: Reflection ahead of Ramadhan

Edit The Jakarta Post 03 Jun 2016

Some Indonesian Muslims zealously defend the officials who made flippant remarks about the “threat of the hammer and sickle”, while others are sick with the fear of symbolism, perhaps invoked by officials and politicians to silence the critical masses.  A fear of almost everything, from communism to feminism, is supported and ......

Looking into the massacres of Indonesia's past

Edit BBC News 03 Jun 2016

Indonesia has decided to investigate one of the darkest chapters of its own history. In 1965 at least 500,000 people died in organised killings of suspected communist sympathisers ... There is a spot in the middle of a teak forest, the ground covered with leaves, on the outskirts of Pati in Central Java ... Soldiers even briefly detained some students for wearing red T-shirts with a picture of a hammer and sickle inside a coffee cup ... ....

Retired generals to hold anti-communist symposium

Edit The Jakarta Post 31 May 2016

A Historical Approach” ... The retired Army general said the symposium was a move to oppose the “resurgence of the communist movement in the country that could jeopardize Pancasila as the country’s tenet, given the recent discovery of the perceived use of hammer-and-sickle logos nationwide” ... Ryamizard, also a retired general, is believed to be a staunch backer of this event by activists in the capitol ... ( mos ). ....

'What Is interesting in Russia Is the Mixture of the New and the Old' (Higher School of Economics)

Edit Public Technologies 30 May 2016

(Source. Higher School of Economics). Professor Graeme Gill from University of Sydney has conducted the seminar on 'Symbolic politics and social constructions of past' at HSE Moscow. He presented the paper 'Symbols and Post-Communism ... Professor Gill focused on the ways the country deals with the communist past ... A fascination was born!' ... Many buildings retain the hammer and sickle, and some red stars remain on the Kremlin ... (noodl. 33854054) ....

Romania play reminds people of the good, bad of communism

Edit Times Union 26 May 2016

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanians have relived the horrors of communism in a play featuring Lenin and Stalin, set to patriotic songs of that era, played by actors who mime their roles ... "Lenin's Arc" is a visual feast of non-speaking actors dressed in uniforms, waving hammers, sickles and red flags — their faces and clothes daubed with copper, green and brown paint ... "In those days everyone had a job. In those days we had industry ... ....

Julia Rochester: 'My fiction is preoccupied with belonging and exile'

Edit The Guardian 24 May 2016

There was a CND lapel badge we wore (badges were big in the 80s) ... Twitter ... I just start with a place and a couple of characters and let it unfold ... But, just two years later I was back there for New Year in 1990, where thousands of people sat on the Wall, cheering and waving flags with the hammer and sickle cut out, while East German border guards stumbled about drunkenly with streamers around their necks and waving Sekt bottles ... Extract....

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Hammer & Sickle tattoo

Dead Snow - Nazi Zombie vs. Hammer and Sickle (and Chainsaw)