And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, June 7, 2024
“Жнива в Україні” Микола Пимоненко 1896 / Something Something (harvest?) in Ukraine, Mikola Pimonenko
The Bread Basket
ReplyDelete"There's a hole in the ground were they used to grow",
DeleteSteely Dan, King of the World
Does look like wheat.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a bountiful harvest, until good old 'Uncle Joe' confiscated it all and let the Ukrainians starve.
ReplyDeleteYou mean until Putin bombed it. Don't you?
DeleteA lot of work just to eat.
ReplyDeleteStalin was born in the Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteHe had help doing what he did.
Who profited?
Goojle translate says it's "Harvest in Ukraine Mykola Pymonenko 1896"
ReplyDeleteStalin was a Georgian not a Ukrainian. Black humor is like food, not everyone gets it.
ReplyDeleteThey should be using a scythe, not sickles.
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