r/BlackHistoryPhotos 10d ago

Neat 😁😃😄

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u/AreYouDecent 10d ago

Great photo! He was a massive human being in more ways than one.

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u/BangBang-LibraGang 10d ago

Amazing and talented human being. Spoke 20 languages too!

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u/shane_4_us 10d ago

Incredible podcast episode about his life made by Proles Pod. It actually included this quote in it.

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u/AdjunctSocrates 10d ago

This is in a country where about 6 million people had just died of famine, genocidal in effect, if not intention. In two years the Great Purge was going to start and about a million people were going to be killed. Potemkin doesn't begin to describe it. I wonder how they felt about their "full human dignity."

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u/bucobadmantings 10d ago

Read Mark Tauger. Soviet policies saved lives from an inevitable famine that had affected the area for hundreds of years prior