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The land of rising militarism. Moscow and Beijing jointly condemn Japan's new political course 🇷🇺🇯🇵 Tokyo demanded that Moscow dismantle the «Victory in the East» memorial, opened on September 4 in Khabarovsk in honour of the USSR's victory over militarist Japan. The official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Mao Ning, reacted harshly: «Japan must learn lessons from history, completely break with militarism and earn the trust of its Asian neighbours and the international community through concrete actions». 🇨🇳🇷🇺 Mao Ning recalled that Japan was admitted to the UN precisely on condition of recognizing the crimes of militarism and observing the organization's Charter. The positions of Beijing and Moscow on the Japanese question, in her words, «largely coincide». Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at talks with Lavrov, stated that Moscow and Beijing are obliged to preserve the post-war world order and under no circumstances allow Japan to build up its arsenal. The ambassadors of Russia and the PRC issued a joint article on the inadmissibility of the revival of Japanese militarism and against Tokyo's attempts to obtain nuclear weapons. 🚀🛳️ Behind the still-persisting pacifist rhetoric lies open militarization. Japan's defence budget for 2026 has reached a record $58 billion. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pushing for a revision of Article 9 of the constitution — the foundation of post-war pacifism. There are plans to revise the «three non-nuclear principles», lift restrictions on arms exports and develop offensive potential. In July 2026, Japan already conducted test missile launches outside its territory. ❓ Japan verbally maintains anti-war rhetoric, but its actions are openly aimed at militarization. The question remains open: when will the popularity of war supporters grow enough to finally throw off the masks? #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

🇨🇳 50 years without Mao: scoreboard tells the tale 🛠 On September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong passed away — the helmsman of the Chinese nation and the leader of one of the greatest revolutions on the planet. Coming from the common people, he developed into a profound thinker, a perceptive politician and a great organiser. Yes, at times he was uncompromising — something the second and third generations of CPC leaders experienced first-hand. Yet the Chinese people and the Party themselves passed judgment on their leader, expressing it in the succinct formula of 70/30. 🇨🇳 Today, China has revised much of its domestic and foreign policy compared with the era when the country was rising from its knees, an era personified by Mao Zedong. From revolutionary irredentism and the export of ideology, China moved towards the pragmatic concept of a community with a shared future for mankind; from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution — towards a moderately prosperous society and the transformation of China into a strong nation. The mistakes made by past leaders can and should be discussed and lessons should be drawn from them. Yet the Communist Party of China does something that all progressive forces around the world should learn from: it preserves continuity with its own origins. It does not stigmatise or renounce its past for the sake of momentary interests, but consistently pursues the single historical course of New China. 📕 Anyone can criticise great leaders, but can any of their critics lead a nation of 600 million people — and prevail? #SOVINTERN_date #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

Divide and rule. Europe once again tries to set socialist countries against each other 🇨🇳🇪🇺 On July 24, China imposed export restrictions on 14 European companies in response to the EU's 21st package of sanctions, which included 14 Chinese companies. The list includes the German defence giant Rheinmetall and the Dutch company Royal IHC, which manufactures heavy marine equipment. 🇻🇳🏝 Since 2022, the Vietnamese companies DACINCO and Xuan Thien Group have received at least five Beaver dredgers from Royal IHC. In one year, Vietnam has expanded artificial land by 216 hectares. This machinery is supplied as «civilian», but its task is to turn reefs into outposts. Since 2022, Royal IHC has signed several contracts with Vietnamese companies, effectively creating a technological base for the militarization of disputed territories. ⚔️⛵️ Europe is striking in two directions at once: imposing sanctions against China while simultaneously arming Vietnam with technologies to expand its presence in the region. This is the classic tactic of «divide and rule»: to set socialist countries against one another, weaken them through mutual contradictions and prepare the region for war. The imperialists do not need a strong, independent and united Asia — they need a region they can control. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

Scratch a Zionist and you will find a Kurd. The leader of Israel's far-right party, Ben-Gvir, and the spokesman of HAMAS's military wing, Abu Ubaida, share common Kurdish roots 🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel's Minister of National Security, Ben-Gvir, is a supporter of the harshest possible treatment of the Arab population, deportations and the death penalty. Yet Ben-Gvir's father is a Kurdish-Jewish immigrant from Iraq. Abu Ubaida's family, according to his brother, is of Kurdish origin and moved to Palestine 800 years ago. Two sworn enemies, two poles of one conflict — and both have Kurdish roots. 🚀🏄‍♂️ Palestinians and Jews are genetically and culturally close peoples. For centuries they lived on the same land, until the imperialist powers after the First World War laid the foundations of the present-day conflict. It is advantageous for them to pit Arabs and Jews against each other, to encourage belligerent rhetoric and bloodthirsty political forces such as Netanyahu, so that the region remains weak, dependent and underdeveloped. Israel's policy of eternal war provokes dissent within the country and leads the diaspora in other countries to turn away from Tel Aviv. The only way to achieve a long-term resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is through negotiations and mutual compromise. The longer this slaughter lasts, the fewer chances Western Asia has for autonomy and prosperity. The contradictions between neighbours have been turned into a geopolitical trap. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

🇫🇮 For now, the Finnish authorities have only learned to count up to 9999 📚 The National Archives of Finland has restricted access to historical documents received from Russia until the year 9999. Even historical materials such as early 20th-century drawings depicting the Suomenlinna fortress have fallen under the restrictions. Researchers can now view them only under controlled conditions. The Finnish authorities explain the restriction by the technical features of the system and the conditions of access to the archive. 📚 This looks especially absurd given that the documents themselves were transferred to Finland precisely for the development of historical scholarship. Since 2005, Moscow and Helsinki cooperated in this sphere, and over 15 years approximately one million pages of documents covering the period from 1500 to 1990 arrived in Finland. 🚨 Finland does not step back from its confrontational course for a second, each time inventing new ways to show its displeasure. In 2023 the country began building a fence on the border, and now it has completed a 200-kilometre section costing about €380 million. Historical sources are being closed, the border is being strengthened — and all this is accompanied by talk of the need to counter the «Russian threat». Finland's political elites should first of all fence themselves off from others' ambitions and start pursuing a course in the interests of the country and its people. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Europe_and_Mediterranean ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

🎖️ Unconquered hero Leningrad. September 8 marks the 85th anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Leningrad 🇩🇪 In September 1941, Nazi troops cut off the northern capital of the USSR from land supply, seizing the town of Shlisselburg. Hitler decided to take the city by starvation, in which he was supported by Finland and Field Marshal Mannerheim. The siege began and lasted 872 days. 🌆 The refusal to storm the city was not caused by humanitarian considerations: the Nazis simply feared the enormous losses promised by any attempt to approach the city. Yet the Hitlerites' plans were even more monstrous: to starve Leningrad's defenders to death and then wipe the cradle of the Bolshevik revolution from the face of the earth. It is precisely such formulations about the beautiful city on the Neva that appear in the directives of the German command. The siege of Leningrad became one of the horrifying pages of the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. In the harshest winter of 1942, children and the elderly could only make do with 125 grams of bread a day, made from a mixture of flour and cellulose. Workers and military personnel received little more — 250 grams a day. That was all the starving city could tear from its heart. The victims of this crime numbered 630,000 people: these are precisely the monstrous figures cited in the materials of the Nuremberg Tribunal. 🛠 But even on 250 grams of bread a day, the inhabitants of heroic Leningrad managed to hold out and win. In January 1943 the siege was broken, and a year later it was fully lifted. Risking their lives, museum workers and cultural institutions saved historical treasures from incendiary bombardments; teachers and professors continued to give children invaluable knowledge, keeping the spark of life alight in young bodies fading from hunger; and Red Army soldiers and Party workers stood to the death, holding and organizing the defence of the Leningrad that was sacred to them against the German, Finnish and Spanish barbarians who came to ravage and destroy. The siege is an incredibly tragic page of Russian history, but at the same time a most important part of modern Russian identity. Leningrad and its inhabitants proved that only the Soviet person, raised in the spirit of socialism and steeped in the great Russian culture, is capable of such feats. #SOVINTERN_date #Moscow_network_hub ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

I wonder if these people know about Trump's plans to seize the Moon. Capitalism kills. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_North_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

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By breaking international agreements in pursuit of a “better deal,” Washington has ended up with war and a nuclear threat. Find out exactly how in our new article. #SOVINTERN_explains #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

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The USSR showed the world the path to space, gave it peaceful atom, and demonstrated how to use scientific and technological achievements for social progress. Soviet modernism is enthusiasm, dreams of space and a beautiful faraway future, embodied in stone, steel, and concrete. Despite all the slanders against the Soviet past, they are the best proof of the optimism with which Soviet people looked to the future. #SOVINTERN_achievements #Moccow_Network_hub ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

We see the speck in someone else's eye but fail to notice the log in our own. Estonia does not know what is in its military warehouses 🇪🇪 Estonia prepared to defend itself against terrible external threats, but unexpectedly discovered a problem where it did not expect it: the authorities cannot properly explain what exactly is held in military warehouses worth €1.2 billion. Prime Minister Kristen Michal has already demanded that the Ministry of Defence sort out the accounting. 💸 The situation looks especially comical after the recent «shell scandal», when the Estonian Centre for Defence Investments transferred almost €70 million in prepayment to Italy's Datasel S.R.L. for the purchase of shells for Ukraine. As it later emerged, the company had no experience in the production and sale of ammunition and delivered no munitions at all. The Estonian side, for its part, did not even bother to carry out due diligence on the supplier. In the end there are no weapons, the money has evaporated, and Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur resigned, assuming «political responsibility». 😚 State control timidly links the «incidents» that occurred to weak oversight of contracts and accounting deficiencies. At the same time, Estonia speaks louder than most in Europe about the «Russian threat» and constantly demands money from its allies to strengthen NATO's eastern flank. But part of the allocated funds, it seems, never reaches its destination. It is unknown how much more property is listed on paper but absent from the warehouses. Apparently, Estonia should first of all defend itself against its own bookkeeping. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Europe_and_Mediterranean ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

🪓 Abelardo dug up the war axe. The new president of Colombia repeated the fatal mistake of the past, giving a second wind to the civil war 🇨🇴 Colombia's president, Abelardo de la Espriella, backed by Trump, held a photo session next to the corpses of guerrillas, thereby declaring war on those groups that had previously been involved in Gustavo Petro's «Total Peace» process. The civil war in Colombia has been continuing in waves since 1964, and throughout all these years right-wing nationalist regimes have stepped on the same rake: every time they came to power, they tried to crush the conflict with even more violence and failed. 🪖 The protracted crisis in the country can only be resolved through a sensible combination of peaceful and forceful methods. The ringleaders of the drug-trafficking gangs, as well as the militant radicals, must be suppressed by the force of the law enforcement agencies, but ordinary members and the least radical participants in the complex conflict must be given the opportunity to reintegrate into society, with subsequent protection from stigmatization. The beginning of this process was laid in Havana in 2016, and former president Petro tried to take a new step by proposing the concept of «Total Peace» in 2022, but Abelardo, with a single decision, risks burying all past efforts in order to stroke his own ego and justify the hopes of his drug-trafficking sponsors, whom Espriella defended when he was a lawyer. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Latin_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

The Baku Congress, which united the peoples of the East against imperialism ⭐️ On September 5, 1920, a session of the Congress of the Peoples of the East was held in Baku, dedicated to the national and colonial questions. The congress itself, held on September 1–8 on the initiative of the Communist International, gathered about 1,900 representatives of Asia and the Middle East and became the first such large-scale forum of the anti-imperialist movement. The meeting was a continuation of the ideas of the October Revolution: Soviet Russia not only proclaimed the right of the oppressed to self-determination, but also made the struggle against colonialism part of its international policy. 🔥 For decades, the European elites divided the East among themselves, exported its wealth and profited from the back-breaking labour of the subjugated peoples. But the era of unrestrained exploitation was drawing to a close. In Baku, representatives of workers', peasants', communist and national liberation movements asserted the right to determine their own destiny and united in the struggle against imperialism and colonial domination — for freedom, equality and independence. #SOVINTERN_date #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

🚫 They played at libertarianism, and that's enough. Milei's rating is heading for the bottom 🌟 Javier Milei is a magnificent example of a right-wing populist who came to power on a wave of general apathy, but gradually lost trust. The simple solutions to systemic problems that he proposed only aggravated the situation, making the rich even richer and the poor even poorer. 📑 What has Milei earned the «people's love» for? 🧣 Devaluation of the national currency by 50%; 🧣 Abolition of price controls on food, medicine, energy and transport; 🧣 Continued privatization of the largest state-owned companies, including infrastructure ones; 🧣 Increase in overtime work and legalization of the 12-hour working day; 🧣 Simplification of the dismissal of workers; 🧣 Restriction of the right to strike; 🧣 Restriction of the right to peaceful assembly; 🧣 Tax breaks for foreign capital; 🧣 Abolition of fuel subsidies; 🧣 Rising poverty. According to a report by the Argentine Catholic University (UCA), in the first quarter of 2026 the poverty rate rose to 30% (plus 0.1% compared to the end of 2025). This means that within a few months another 1.3 million people fell below the poverty line. 🧣 Child poverty remains critical. Among adolescents (13–17 years old), the poverty rate is 42.5%, and among children (5–12 years old), 40.9%. 🧣 Rise in unemployment to 8%; 🧣 Around 13.6 million people work without social guarantees. The level of informal employment continues to grow and has reached 44.2% of all workers. 🧣 Fall in real wages of 16–20%. The wage index grew by 8.6%, while the cost of the basic consumer basket increased by 9.6%. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Latin_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

🇩🇪 As you sow, so shall you reap. In Berlin, hundreds of citizens protested against the authorities' course of confrontation with Russia ‼️ In Berlin, several hundred people took to a rally against the closure of the Russian House. The action was held outside the walls of the cultural centre under the slogan «Bridges instead of walls». It was organized by the BSW party (Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance). The participants demanded an end to arms supplies to Ukraine, a halt to the confrontation with Russia, and the cancellation of the decision to close the Russian representation. 🕊 According to the initiators, they had initially expected around 200 participants; however, after the official announcement by the German authorities about the closure of the Russian House, the number of those wishing to attend turned out to be significantly higher — according to some data, around 500 people. The crowd chanted slogans such as «Peace with Russia», «Peace and friendship», «For the defeat of NATO» and «Hands off Russia». 🚨 Whatever the German authorities do today, it is all to the detriment of the people: social benefits are being cut, military spending is being increased, and long-standing ties with neighbours and with Russia are being severed. The protest outside the Russian House shows that far from all Germans are ready to accept the course of eternal confrontation with Moscow. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Europe_and_Mediterranean ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

David defeats Goliath once again. By repressing its critics, Israel loses the information war 🇮🇱🔗 Historian Artem Kirpichenok, detained on August 2 at Tel Aviv airport, remains in custody. On August 28, the court extended his detention until September 8 — this is already the fourth extension. The historian is charged with «contacts with Iranian officials for the purpose of gathering information to harm the state» and participation in the activities of an organization «whose goal is to harm the state». 🎩🧑‍⚖️ Artem's lawyer stated that the hearings are taking place under conditions of absolute secrecy, where even the defence does not have full access to the case materials. Meanwhile, a campaign in support of the historian is gaining momentum on social media. Dozens of activists and journalists from various countries are demanding Artem's release, publishing details of the case and exposing the political nature of the persecution. 📢 Publicity is the only thing that can influence an illegal process. The more people learn about this case, the harder it will be for the Israeli authorities to maintain the appearance of legality. Israel is trying to intimidate its critics, but every attempt to force silence only draws new attention to the case. Israel is losing the information war — and with each passing day, the repression against the historian turns into an ever more serious blow to the tarnished image of the Zionist state. Speaking about this case means defending the right to freedom of speech wherever it is being suppressed. Artem Kirpichenok should not be in prison for his views. We demand the immediate release of Artem Kirpichenok! #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

🇫🇷 French postcard from the Congo, early 20th century It is not at all surprising that Nazism was born in Europe. It rose and swelled because it plundered the rest of the world and put in chains those who could not fight back. The continuation of such postcards were human zoos, the last of which closed only in 1958 in Belgium. But do not think that the European elites have reformed, even though they have begun to lecture everyone on liberal humanism and democratic values. When the USSR was destroyed, «enlightened» Europe rushed with redoubled force to use slave labour on plantations in Côte d'Ivoire and in the mines of the Congo. All this continues to this day. Colonialism is alive. It has yet to be destroyed. #SOVINTERN_teaches #Hub_Sub_Saharan_Africa ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

❗️ With allies like these, enemies are unnecessary. Trump presents Europe with the bill for Ukraine 🇺🇸 Donald Trump demanded that Europe compensate US spending on military aid to Ukraine under Joe Biden: «Hundreds of Billions of Dollars was given to Ukraine and NATO, free of charge, that Europe would have paid for — If they were only asked, but we will be asking for that money, though somewhat belatedly!». 🏳️‍⚧️ The American demands can be realized through increased defence spending within NATO, purchases of American weapons for European armies and for Ukraine, new contracts for American LNG, trade concessions and investment in the United States. Washington has enough levers to turn European dependence on the US into a source of its own gain. 😚 Germany is already showing what this approach looks like in practice: by meeting NATO's demands and increasing military spending, Berlin is cutting social benefits. A similar scenario awaits all European countries if their leaders continue to thoughtlessly follow someone else's geopolitical ambitions. There is one very simple truth — Washington never engages in charity. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Europe_and_Mediterranean ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

🛳 A small and victorious war for the Argentine psychopath. Milei announced the opening of a military base in the province of Tierra del Fuego 😭 Shortly after Trump made ambiguous remarks about the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), his loyal page Javier Milei hastened to act decisively. He announced the opening of a naval base in Argentina's nearest continental province and issued a series of threats against the United Kingdom. 🇦🇷🇬🇧 The last time President Galtieri tried to recover the Malvinas, it all ended in failure and his downfall. Interestingly, the motives for rattling the sabre are very similar between him and Milei, and so is the context. Right-wing tyrants in power, who promised the population mountains of gold, failed to deliver anything and decided to arrange a military fling to save the situation. In 1982, by the way, Reagan also tried to persuade Thatcher not to respond to Argentina's actions, but in vain. The Falklands War claimed the lives of almost a thousand people, and the territorial dispute was never resolved. This is what «problem-solving» looks like by capitalist methods. 🦅 And these people will tell you that liberal democracies do not go to war with one another. #SOVINTERN_date #Hub_Latin_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

In the Soviet Union, housing became a mass benefit. By the 1960s–1980s, «an apartment, a dacha and a car» had become the norm of life for millions of Soviet families. #SOVINTERN_educates #Moscow_network_hub ⭐️Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN

⭐️ Only by riddling me with bullets will they be able to stop me from carrying out the people's programme... On September 4, 1970, Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile 🇨🇱 President Allende's coming to power was perhaps the brightest and most vivid page in Chile's political history. Popular mobilization and the unity of all progressive forces around the most resolute and consistent candidate of the Socialist Party brought about an unprecedented upsurge in the social sphere: workers' wages rose by 40%, a system of public education and health care was introduced, and local communities received official protection. 🤑 Allende stepped on the throat of the North American capitalists. For almost its entire independent history, the country had been a source of saltpetre and later copper for them. Governments changed, dictatorships appeared and collapsed, but US interests in Chile remained untouchable. In Allende they saw for the first time a real threat to their domination, and therefore they used all their strength to overthrow him. The crisis of the Chilean economy, for which Pinochet's supporters blame the socialists, is the result exclusively of US sanctions and CIA subversive operations. North American banks stopped issuing loans to Chilean companies, and exports, which for decades had been aimed at the US market, were cut off. Chilean business was given a condition: either you eliminate Allende or you are left without money. People without a homeland chose Pinochet. 🕊 President Allende's main mistake was his romantic conviction that socialism, for which he died with a rifle in his hands, could be built exclusively by peaceful means. He did not carry out large-scale nationalization, did not expel transnational capital from the country, did not create alternative institutions of power, limiting himself to half-measures. Allende undoubtedly proved that bourgeois elections can bring socialists to power, but socialism cannot be built through them. #SOVINTERN_date #Hub_Latin_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN