Fun fact: IS3 (the tank in picture) despite being probably the best tank of WW2 era, was only 10% more expensive to produce than an ordinary Sherman, and was nearly half the cost of Pershing and half the cost of Tiger.
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Yeah, a rare Soviet L, i guess there were troubles in tax collection during NEP, since iirc it was implemented around that point. Still, the context of this tax in socialism and capitalism is kinda different, right now indirect taxes in general are main part of overall regressive tax system (like in Poland poor people pay total around 60% tax, rich one 20-30% and richest who know how much, probably even less). And Poland for example did not had VAT in socialism.
Most likely VAT tax, an old tsarist fiscal trick to fleece the poor. Or maybe just the new trick to fleece the poor by creating aspulled link between dominant and vassal imperialist currency, since VAT isn’t constant in EU, it’s from 17% (Luxembourg) to 27% (Hungary)
Widzę że poddałem towarzyszowi pomysł, ale wyrób czegoś takiego chyba zajmie krócej XD
But a lost opportunity to make the dildos on the shelf have heads of Hoxha
Oh so this is how Musk became richest man
12·1 month agoTell this to them, it’s almost 600 comments now.
Just look at those nuggets:
10·1 month agoOriginal Cyberpunk 2020 rpg game that came in 1988 had that sidebar bit about people lending their brains (physically) for 5 years to became cybersoldiers, and that was presented as hyper dehumanising.
Probably for the same reasons any other corpo is sitting silent about China:
- It’s a huge huge market, much money to be made
- Chinese judiciary is often like that for western corpos silly demands:
The history of Chinese Lego is btw really fun. Lego for years hesitated to build a factory in China, but ultimately stonks syndrome got them and they did. Shortly after, Chinese started to produce strangely similar bricks which are only minimally different by plastic composition, just enough to avoid lawsuit. Since then they also expanded offer on miniblocks (75% of size of ordinary) and microblocks (50% and still look great but dammit they make the fingers hurt).
And most importantly, they got not only copies of many rare lego sets but also many sets Lego never had, like the military including Soviet ones (tanks, planes and helis are relly good). They also make some from animes, movies etc, yesterday i seen complete model of Thousand Sunny from One Piece with all crew or the famous Pirate Ship from old Lego, but even bigger.
No idea, i’m not even really into Lego, from what i seen it’s pretty expensive in Poland, so the best option would be probably to buy something similar on aliexpress and convert like in your picture. Socialist figures would be mostly pretty easy, since they don’t involve any weird or huge pieces (though it would be fun to convert Kakashi to Stalin).
Nice, definitely handpainted with some green stuff on his head visible too.
Awesome Stalin, i searched there for Stalin, Lenin and Tito but only minifigures clearly based on real socialists i found are those two above.
Oh in the same link i posted there’s also Lidya Litviak, as “White Lily”, first female fighter ace:
Alibaba is Aliexpress, at least in Poland. Other huge online portals are Wish (it sucks, not recommended), Temu (they have slightly different things than Aliexpress so it’s worth a check) and Shopee (closed in Poland so idk how it is).
Afaik they don’t have many books, i barely found Little Red Book there and it’s shit edition with boxes, typos and weird fonts. For books unfortunately Amazon seems to be best option, especially in Poland where we had literally 5 socialist books published in last 35 years.
Yeah, or maybe just old, currency devaluated, isn’t now just having your own house is like half to entire step to being a millionaire?
Yes, i specifically didn’t said “WW2” but “WW2 era” because it seen little combat, but it was definitely tank entering production in time of WW2 and based on experience from WW2. Also, while it was relegated, it incorporated many revolutionary solutions and was instrumental for later development of soviet MBT.