Comrades, I wish you a heartfelt Happy New Year and may you serve the Revolution in the year to come!

For the Motherland!!!

Santa Marx has just arrived in town with presents for all of us. He brings us hope for a better future.

So, comrades, I wish you a wonderful Christmas with your fellow comrades and family but don't forget to help your compatriots in this time of happiness.

And when you sit near the Christmas tree in your warm room, eating and drinking all the delicacies and listening to music on your audio system, please remember that there are many people who are not as fortunate as you are, who sit in their broken houses, hungry and cold.

Remember that this is what we strive for: Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood.

Almost 85% of the old people regret that the empire, where they passed msot fo their lives has gone. 67% of the  people about 40 years old also think they lived better in the Soviet country.

According to the Russian institute of people's opinion, 57% of the habitants of the country still regret for the crumble of the Soviet Union. For comparison the last year the people that regret were with 2% lower. The rush-hour of the nostalgia was in 2000, when 75% of Russia's population wanted USSR back.

The social layer that regrets the most are the people with low education and low income. And only 28% of the people think that the crumble of the USSR was unavoidable.

This monument is called the "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" (Рабочий и колхозница was made for one of studios at VDNKH and was displayed for the first time in Paris, 1937. A competition was held for the post of chief architect and the winner was then-famous soviet V.I. Mukhina.

After the impressive memorial had been created and shown at an exhibition, it was heavily damaged while being transported from France to the USSR.

This monument is also used for the intro of all Mosfilm movies.

After posting the Soviet Union wallpaper yesterday I thought I'd create a KDE theme showcasing the Soviet Desktop.

The following is KDE 4.3 running on Gentoo Linux x86_64. Click for larger picture.

If you want any details / help on it, be sure to tell me about it.

I've just recently created a soviet wallpaper by merging and tweaking a couple of others that I found lying around on deviantart and google.

The wallpaper can be found and downloaded over here (thanks to KDE-Look).

I hope you enjoy it comrades.

A lot of people still think that little button up in the right corner called Videos leads to an empty space. That is false.

This union does take advantage of the video system, unlike others. Don't forget about that!

Thanks for the attention.

(Russia Today) While touring the Georgian capital Tbilisi, President Saakashvili puzzled bystanders and numerous bodyguards with a sudden outburst of panic. Later he explained he saw a Russian combat plane flying overhead.

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"He won't look me in the eye, won't engage in any small talk, and looks more ill at ease than I feel." Zabiullah Mujahid is one of two spokesmen for the reclusive Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar. In a rare and exclusive interview with CNN's Nic Robertson, he says the Taliban will never be defeated in Afghanistan no matter how many foreign troops are sent in.

As the number of swine flu cases continues to rise around the world, so is a gradual backlash -- with some saying the threat the virus poses is overblown.

I will find some time to upload a couple of videos that I (and hopefully so will you) like.

Users can also upload whatever videos they want, as well as they don't have exaggerated graphical content.

Don't forget the feedback!

Well guys, The Soviet Union is officially here!

It has been a while getting here but now we are here let's fill this union with discussion

Our leader has given us a great banner which looks quite good, and we have a few good threads now to start some good rants/discussions. We are going to make some sigs/tags pretty soon to advertise and I ask everyone to please recruit

~That is all

~Optiow~

~Greetings from VMAN~