May Day pride, a photo from Zachodniopomorskie, West

Photographer's Note

May Day... May Day...
Observing the parade..

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them …
V.I. Lenin

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we are. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, is to help the working class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
V.I. Lenin

Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political freedom and social liberties should be disposed entirely… All that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering without any meaning… We should get away from those phrases.
V.I. Lenin

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ymrk, faubry, zmey, Jackos, Traczewska, Clairedelune, ninaL ha puntuado esta nota como útil.

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ymrk (15099) 2009-05-01 5:06

Hello Dear George,
You have a magnificent photo gallery in TE.
I affectived portrait,beautiful BW edits with different framing in there.
Have a good week,best compliments,

Yağmur

elkab (3780) 2009-05-01 5:36

Bezcenne te Twoje zdjęcia...
pozdrawiam
elka

faubry (35447) 2009-05-01 5:49

i like these old picture from you, fantastic atmospher captured george!
freedom.... now is feedom?? yes
but another problem is money!!
no freedom with money.... more, more,
more money!!!!!!
francine

zmey (7335) 2009-05-01 12:04

Hey Georgie-pal, thanks for another 'blast from the past'. as to those citation: don't you agree, for better or worse, there is a significant grain of truth in them. As a class, bourgeoisie IS many times stronger than the working (salaried) class just by the sheer amount of resources they (as a class) control. In liberal western societies, through this control of resources, the richer part of the society also controls what information and packaged in what form the population receives. And, information flow (control of it) determines how the masses vote in a democracy. Look at the US, the bastion of democracy. How many senators or congressmen have you seen who at the time of their respective elections were earning what the average American earns? Heh, V.I. Lenin might have been a monster, but he sure was not an idiot.

Just playing the devil's advocate here. ;)

K.

Jackos (3542) 2009-05-01 12:30

Świetna seria!!!

Traczewska (14) 2009-05-01 13:20

Wyniesienie czlowieka prostego na piedestal.. Gloryfikacja twarzy prostej, nie-szczegolnej.. szarego prochowca, czarnej teczki.. rownosc, wolnosc i sprawiedliwosc.. jaki pech, ze nic sie nie udalo urzeczywistnic, o ironio, wszystko bylo dokladnie odwrotnie..
Napis "telefon" za plecami naszego bohatera przypomina mi, ze najpierw go nie bylo, potem byl po znajomosciach, potem byl podsluchiwany, wreszcie raz obudzilismy sie a on ogluchl.. no a potem, na szczescie zaczelo sie zmieniac.. i teraz zawsze nosimy go przy sobie..

Sprawiedliwosci nie ma i kazdy musi walczyc o swoje, a jak mu nie wolno to sie w swoim usrednieniu czlowiek dusi.. tak mi sie mysli gdy widze ten pierwszy rzad przygladajacych sie pochodowi.. zmeczone i zgasle twarze, nawet usmiech, przy najwiekszych staraniach, jakos nie wyszedl..

Bardzo cenny flashback.. trudny ale wazny, Polakow portret wlasny, rok 1978..

z pozdrowieniami, agn

worldcitizen (14290) 2009-05-01 13:52

Hey George,
Here's another good one...interesting faces...like something from an old spy movie. I like how the man on the left has his sights set on you. You must have looked very suspicious. :-)

bantonbuju (51815) 2009-05-01 14:52

mialem kiedys bliskiego mi czlowieka, ktory zmarl wierzac w komunizm... nie wazne z jakiego powodu ta wiare otrzymal i od kogo... wazne, ze pokazal mi jedno - odrzucajac wiare w boga a przyjmujac wiare w idee komunizmu pokazal mi, ze w cos wierzyc trzeba... wybral jak wybral... przesiadywal na tych prezydialnych stolkach, dostawal kwiaty, usmiechal sie i cieszyl z tych sztucznyc serdecznosic tlumu, pewnie wierzac, ze sa szczere i mu nalezne...

pewnie moglby byc ktoryms z tych siedzacych...

mocne, mocno osadzone w rzeczywistosci tamtych lat...

j.

Clairedelune (4923) 2009-05-02 11:35

Oh Gosh! Oh boy! Oh man! Oh ... God!!!!!
I am sitting so small in my chair. Feeling the irresistible need to crawl on the floor. This photo is overpowering me, making me a dwarf. I'm afraid of that overTowering man, who seems so proud of himself.
This is an extraordinary photo, George. Truly.
Invaluable... again.
Sorry for parroting my own self. But looking at your photos, I feel like being a baby who can only stutter "ba... ba... ba..."
Ok... I only wish his fingers were all there. ;)
Claire
N.B.: I'm torn. I still think that you don't belong to TE, but TE needs you desperately.

noborders (1010) 2009-05-04 11:50

Fantastic, yet very normal faces... I like the names of your themes written above and the sarcasm of the note as well, - but BTW where is your intro photo that you are still commenting, "From the times when the photography wasn't even invented yet..." :

I liked a lot the mischievous smile and the irony in the eyes, same irony that one can spot in so many of your photos ??? Please, put it back again, it said a lot about you and it announced already the spirit of your gallery - with a very communicative smile !

Best,
Katarzyna
(PS : agree totally with what Claire wrote above, specially the last sentence : well put !!!)

ninaL (21348) 2009-05-07 22:36

Super.
Spojrzenie z lewej i teczka.
Spojrzenia w strone imprezy i dzieciak.
Ludziska asystujacy z balkonu.
Te plaszcze...
I to w najgorszym gierkowskim momencie.
Wtedy zaczynal sie prawdziwy kryzys, ktorego inicjacja bylo wprowadzenie wpierw w 1976 kartek na cukier.
To nie wroci. I dobrze. Ale bylo...i ty tam byles.
Buzka goraca. G.