Floral-painted buildings, Zalipie, Poland.

“No loyalty to the bosses

No loyalty to the institution”

Ten promotional cards made by Hergé in 1943-44. 

These cards were first published on the 75th anniversary of Tintin.

Zubtsov, Tver region, Russia. July 2018.

Kola Peninsula,  Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Operation Barbarossa, the Germans encounter the Katyusha multiple rocket launcher for the first time. 

wadi rum - part 2 of 3 - april 2016

Young Man with a Hat 1888

Vincent van Gogh

Leningrad in 1991. Photography by Spiros Staveris.

Word.

The Texan Revolution formed from the anger of these white settlers in Texas, which was still part of Mexico at this time. They had moved from slave-owning southern part of the US and they became upset because the president of Mexico, Vicente Guerrero, abolished slavery. Mexico actually attempted to restrict American immigration into Mexico-owned Texas! The leaders of the Mexican centralist forces that defeated the Texan revolutionary forces at the Alamo were against slavery. If you ever hear a Texan say “Remember the Alamo!” just remember that the Texan settlers that died there had a vested interest in maintaining control of Texas territory so they could continue to use slave labor. 

forget the alamo.

I’ve lived in Texas my whole life and am extremely proud of my Texas heritage. We are required to take a year of Texas history in school. When we learned about the Alamo, they NEVER told us about any of this.

Yeah, the south has a history of erasing history from their textbooks, there was a big push in the 50′s to revise their history books and distort things so that they push the south in a heroic light.

Mother fucker

MOTHER FUCKER

Mother. Fucker.

I often forget this isn’t just common knowledge…

That’s absolute bullshit. Slavery may have played a role in the whole thing, but it was far from the only cause. Mexico had promised autonomy and self-governance to the empresarios, and centralizing forces in Mexico City (ie Santa Anna) reneged on that. Texas was far from the only Mexican territory to rebel at this time, and there were in fact several breakaway republics elsewhere in Mexico (or what constitutes modern Mexico anyways). See the Republic of the Rio Grande (parts of modern day Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Chihuahua), or the first and second Republics of Yucatan, plus rebellions in Tabasco and Zacatecas.

If it were just about slavery, Texas would’ve been the only breakaway. Stop fuelin nationalist bullshit for some misplaced cause.

Check your Texas history. Check the number of native Tejanos, Mexicans, who fought against the Mexican forces in the Texas Revolution. Go to the Alamo, see the list of the dead. Check the identity of the dead at Goliad. Go to San Antonio and see the place names, monuments, street names, etc., etc., and see the Mexican names, many of them heroes of the Texas Revolution on the Texas side. See the identity of the first elected officials of the Republic of Texas (its own nation). The first Vice-President of Texas was Lorenzo de Zavala, who, along with Juan Antonio Navarro, signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.

The problem was that Mexican President (dictator) Santa Anna revoked/abolished the Mexican Constitution of 1824. When he did that, white, and Mexican citizens revolted. It was a mixed citizen uprising against a tyrannical government that tried to revoke the national governing document.

We could see the same thing in our time for the same reasons, and if so, it will have nothing to do with slavery. And it won’t be a white problem, with only white people resisting government overreach.

Here’s a more intelligent, balanced view, and it is certainly NOT a southern textbook with purportedly “erased” history:

>leftists complaining about racist historical revisionism while omitting the fact that Mexico invited wypipo to settle what would become texas in order to pacify via immigration and colonization, the insurrections of the native populations there who were constantly revolting against mexican imperialism in the region

Imagine being vermin like @cloudfreed and thinking historical revisionism is truth.