The Baja doesn’t exist in Europe so wouldn’t really be possible over here. There have probably been people that have converted a Baja for the Baja.

Yeah, they would make the new Brat massive compared to the original.

Subaru MP-1 Utility aka Subaru Brat.

No its not for the name, rather that it is one of 2 Group B rally pick-up trucks and that is really cool to me. (Other one is the Peugeot 504 pick-up)

If they weren’t so rusty I would love to make rally version for myself.

I could also put in the other cars in the Group B categories. Group B rally being split into 4 categories: B9, B10 and B11, (B12 was the category everyone thinks is Group B). Cars like the Škoda 130 LR, Lada VTFS, Daihatsu Charade 926T and others I can’t remember. Personally I find them to be cooler because they were ordinary production cars that the manufacturers modified heavily rather than the homologation specials that Group B12 was.

They look amazing!

I’ve read through this chapter but don’t have anything to say that which has already been said.

There was so much optimism in the Soviet Society, regardless of where you go and who you encountered. The USSR gave a fresh start to practically everyone regardless of who they were before as long as that person chose to put in the effort to change themselves. A majority of the responsibility to rehabilitate a person imprisoned was on them but they were able to do that because of the resources given to them by how the Soviet Prison system , compared to under capitalism where people are have everything taken away; given nothing; then expected to rebuild in the themselves into something ‘acceptable’ for society in the horrible prison system: which rarely happens and the cycle ends up repeating.

Congrats as well for yours a few weeks ago!

Thanks!

It has been tiring but it has very much been worth it.

Hell Yeah back to ya!

I’ve made it to my 1st HRT Anniversary today!

On the other hand the physical changes that have happened are decently euphoric. I do at least have boobs, measuring at 36B, and my sexuality has been figured out.

I’m AroAce! And actually really happy with that. The stress of having no clue what my feelings of other people are gone, I just like other people and want to be around them, forever.

I’m gonna go celebrate by trying to get my ears pierced. I’ve had the idea after seeing people with their ears fully covered with piercings and really liking that to the point of wanting that done to me. Hopefully I can get the first piercings reasonably soon, and making sure everything is healed before starting on the next ones.

Is that Dan Hentschel?

Amateur arts is shown to be so easy to start up, collect members and produce meaningful art. Making art for themselves seems to be the main goal of this, not to gain immense fame or money but to memoralise the everyday in art, plays and song.

Soviet writers today, if they would be popular, must not confine themselves to delving in the depths of a single human soul; they must depict the vast variety of changing social relations.

How the Steel was Tempered definitely follows this, a book I need to read again and finish.

The Vakhtangov Theater invites the audience to discuss plays between the scenes and at the end with the actors; witty and fruitful discussions occur.

Theatre is more than just entertainment that ends when the final curtain falls and the audience leaves. Discussion with the audience and the actors/artists is something that sometimes happens in grassroots events but its not a planned part of those performances, at least from my experiences.

The page about the political editors and ‘censorship’ was interesting. As it it wasn’t censorship rather more like experts to consult with. For example, similar to a teacher or professor reviewing an essay a student is in the midst of writing and has asked for a check up on. If what is has been written is good they will notice that; if something needs improvement they will help. And if what has been written is actually complete nonsense that has to be pointed out. Its not an explicitly malicious process that the west loves to prance around with as ‘censorship’.

Yes there is censorship but the ‘military matters and material likely to injure the Soviets’ international relation is something that everyone country does and not exclusive to the USSR and AES states.

Only got a bit of time to read this chapter so not really able to say much but also that the chapter really spoke for itself.

The Masses actively engaging with science compared to under capitalism being largely skeptical again showed the significant differences between life under socialism and capitalism. People really do want to be educated, intelligent and curious; and giving people that opportunity builds a stronger society.

Time to raise the Jolly Roger up the Radio Mast, We are sailing the (Air) Waves of the High Seas!

I’m back from my overseas holiday to visit family and it went fine but also exhausting.

My main worries turned out to not happen but on the other hand separate worries popped up.

I did manage to relax at least. So that felt pretty good. Visited a few places for some casual sight seeing and plenty of good views of mountains. Way nicer than the flat terrain of solely fields that is around where I live. I did a bit of photography but not much, not really doing tourism and carrying around a camera 24/7.

Dunia was one of those who in the first year of Revolution seized the manager’s house for a day nursery so that her children might have space to grow.

Seizing private property is bad? A day nursery is more important than some manager losing his house.

This chapter was pretty powerful in how it showed the emancipation of women, what it took and what was achieved afterwards. Comparing the rights and expected lives of women in Tsarist Russia to what was achieved in the USSR its hard to believe this much progress was made in 2 decades. Yet, also compared to 100 years later how much has been lost as well.

Both parties are responsible for the care and support of children up to eighteen and for giving the other partner any needed temporary economic aid to establish the independent relation.

Families are much healthier with active parents especially when the caring of children is also engaged by fathers and not the case of a father constantly away with work and effectively a single mother , usually also working, left to care for children alone. The Cuban Family Code is recent times really puts an emphasis on this with modern awareness of that most families do not fall under the rigid format of a cisheterosexual nuclear family. Both parents regardless of who they are must be really should be caring for their children together.

The emancipation of women is not only the work of women Communists but of men Communists also

Men needing to also work in the role of social reproduction (i think thats the term) is real important for the emancipation of women as well as women entering the workplace as equals to men. The responsibilities of men and women needed to be shifted to be shared which really helped form a healthier society.

Casual attitudes toward marriage have been discouraged from the beginning; no one was more emphatic on this than Lenin.

Seeing stories from the 20s and 30s (even today) of people falling in love at first sight and running away to marry and it generally ending in a miserable relationship, divorce or scarily something worse; seeing something like this feels important. Marriage seems to be the conclusion of a highly developed positive relationship between 2 people, not the start to one.

Make it just traa pins and reading group pins then!

No other events of those years will be so long remembered-not the struggles of the League of Nations, nor the American New Deal; not even the world-wide economic crisis which was but one more, the worst, of many crises. Even the rise of the Chinese Soviets and the turning of Central Europe to fascism may receive less space in future history books than the collectivization of Soviet farming, whereby men won the dream of centuries, security on the soil.

Ahhhh why has it been the complete opposite of this!

But on a serious note every time the collectivisation period is mentioned in Western History its always that collectivisation was forced and therefore evil, the Soviet Union starved millions of its people despite evidence showing that the famines during the 1930s were caused by drought and crop diseases; with sabotage by kulaks worsening the situation on top of that. But once collectivisation had been implemented and famines were practically stopped in the USSR (barring the post WW2 one) yet this has always been ignored and forgotten.

Heck you could also throw in the collectivisation of the Soviet sector of Germany immediately post-war that resulted in more food production compared to the Western sectors combined, just for more Soviet examples of collectivisation succeeding (the collectivsation process here were different, organising individual small farms to work together rather than the collective farms).

Anyway the rest of the chapter was fascinating to read, more so compared to the industrialisation process of the USSR. The jump made in agriculture is way more impressive than the improvements made in industry. Not just the technological advancements but the farmers attitudes going from oppressed peasants to proud kolhozniks; seeing people excited and interesting in educating themselves, advancing their social lives and even being aware of the state of the world not just their individual farms feels other worldly. As Capitalism progresses, encroaching and enveloping people they close themselves off in an attempt to save themselves shutting out anything and anyone around them which hinders their stability in a collapsing society.

Yet when Socialism progresses the complete opposite happens, the ordinary person’s life will open up and bring a very real world that seemed fantasy just years before.

By no means all Soviet farms are yet well organized, but efficiency steadily increases. By no means all of them are prosperous, but prosperity steadily grows.

Socialism is a process not a means to an end, the important part of a revolution is what happens after consolidation of power, with land reforms arguably the most important act to complete.

Shouting from my inclined and eccentric orbit

Yeah I guess I have to respect science and its planet qualifications that render Pluto a dwarf planet.

Ahhhhhh!!!

Proceeds to trip and fall into an inclined and eccentric orbit around the sun that crosses through Neptune’s orbit

HI Neptune!!

BYE Neptune!!