PolandIsAStateOfMind

Magnitogorsk was the most important steel production center in USSR during the WW2 and one of the biggest in the world. Monument shows worker presenting the freshly made sword to the warrior.

Which is the same sword being also depicted on two other famous monuments: The Motherland Calls in Stalingrad, where she rises it into the air in the defence of the country (though the sword looks different because of different architect), and the War Memorial in Berlin, where the victorious warrior lowers the sword to the ground.

They shall be our finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to the cause of proletariat. Like clay we shall mould them, and in the furnace of class war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great tank armour shall we clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease of liberalism, no sickness of capitalism will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are our bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are our Red Army and they shall know no fear.

I didn't even had to change this quote very much

It looks familiar but i can't remember where i seen it.

Surprised ONRchu

I often say how horror is to browse bookstores in Poland, so here you have some examples. Cathegory "history", new publications in last month or so.

From the left:

1. "Great disappointment, genesis of solidarność revolution." - i was like "it's understatement of century to call solidarność only disappointment" but then i remembered it's Poland and of course the "great disappointment" in title is about the PRL in 70's.
2. "Crimes of communism are not talked about" - uh huh, dozens of books overflowing in every bookstore and probably thousands in catalouges don't exist.
3. "The hell in eastern front. Diary of a German soldier" - likely clean wehrmacht myth
4. "Freedom, Equality, Genocide" - not even French Revolution is safe in Poland
5. "Hostages of hell" - a tale of three poor innocent Polish soldiers who volunteered to invade Afghanistan and were so traumatised by that hell so they signed up for another tour and now they tell us how bad it was. Typical vet propaganda like in US.
6. "Gramsci, that is the suicide of revolution" - Main thesis is that Gramsci was really a fascist and thus every modern marxist is also a fascist.

There's also around dozen of less suspicious books. And i'm not even covering other cathegories like philosophy (zero materialists), biographies and diaries, political science, sociology etc. etc. You will find nazi normalisation and casual anticommunism en masse in literally every genre even in romance books. Maybe except children's books, but i wouldn't bet on it.

And that's every month, for 33 years by now. Actually this one is on the tamer end of spectrum, the "cucumber season" (summer slowing of the publishing market) is clearly coming.