Charter of the Cyber-USSR

Copyright © 1998, 2000 by Hugo S. Cunningham
First posted 971017
Most recent revision 991208
latest minor change 2009/0417

Koshki vsex stran, myaukajte!
Kitties of all nations, meow!

Webmaster: Begemot2 (Link to current E-mail address)

The original Begemot appeared in Mikhail Bulgakov's humorous modern classic The Master and Margarita. MM was prudently hidden in the 1930s, but gradually released following Stalin's death. Various web-sites discuss it, and perhaps even carry the text.


What's new? (Recent additions to the Cyber-USSR) [updated 20030307]
Skip ahead to Cyber-USSR index.

The following recommended optional background music selections have been put in (quick-loading) MIDI format by Comrade P.K. Volkov of VOkSovProlKompMuz.:
Play L. Revutskii's "Song about Stalin."
Play A. V. Aleksandrov's "Living Has Gotten Better."
Check music index for these and other selections, with words and musical scores.

Mission statement

Due to events too painful even to think about, the earthly USSR no longer exists. Nevertheless, wherever progressive people meet, there will remain the USSR of our fond aspirations, a realm where no kulak goes un-liquidated, no five-year-plan goes un-overfulfilled, and no Great Leader and Teacher goes un-venerated. This land of our dreams exists on the Internet, the Cyber-USSR (po-russki: Kiberneticheskii Soyuz S.S.R.)

We are looking for Soviet kitsch and oddities, especially from the Stalin era.

Do you have links to or knowledge of:

Index and links
Other Russian links back at HSC index page


1936-1938: The Golden Age of Applied Socialism!

"Utro Nashej Rodiny" ("The Morning of Our Motherland," 1948), by F.S. Shurpin.
A radiant Great Leader and Teacher stands in the foreground of a prosperous collective farm and countryside. Some info on the artist and a larger copy of the painting are available at this site:
shurpin.html

The Peace Policy of the Soviet Union (1939-1941) [2009/0805]

Later Years (1941-1953) [990812]


N.I. Yezhov's Home Page
By unanimous demand of progressive trade unions, peasant collectives, and soldier's councils, N.I. Yezhov (1895-1940), police chief at the height of Stalin's Great Purge (1936-38), has been adopted as patron of the Cyber-NKVD.
The Great Leader and Teacher, I.V. Stalin [5 minutes of stormy applause] Pavlik Morozov (ca 1918-1932):
Songs and films

Literature

    Karl Marx

      Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848, when revolutions (mostly non-Communist) were breaking out across the European continent. You can read it in several foreign languages, including Marx's original German.

      The Manifesto's ironical first sentence, "A spectre is haunting Europe-- the spectre of Communism," is recognized by many who know little of Marx. Its last sentence, "Workers of all nations, unite!" has been adopted as a motto by Communist parties around the world, translated into numerous languages, and frequently parodied.

    A glossary of ideologically-correct insults for enemies of the people.

    Sovlit's summary of socialist literature, and links
    "Works of Soviet Literature summarized for those unable or too lazy to read them in the original."
    Postscript 2011/1229Th: Sovlit.com seems to have disappeared.

    A home page of Dzhambul, poet-laureate of socialist Kazakhstan.

Education

    A wholesome reader for 7th-Graders, approved by the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR (1950) (Far preferable to McGuffey's and other reactionary muck).

    Catalogue of Moscow University, 1977-1978

      The core curriculum: a proper grounding in socialism for all students

      Courses on atheism (transcription unfinished)

Philosophy

Russian antiquities:

Archives of the Cyber-USSR (not available yet)

Some sources used in this site

Correspondents

Index by topic
Quicker access to items not directly accessed from the Cyber-USSR home page.
Not completed yet

Visits to old address of this site
1 Mar 1998 to 30 Apr 2002: approx 22,230.

Visits to this address since 1 May 2002:


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