You will do great things in our galaxy, will make our planet great. We are a little jealous of all you who are celebrating the centenary of our Soviet motherland. But we also know that you will be a little jealous of our restless young generation. We have a clear aim, a great future ahead of us and lots of things to accomplish. We have things that we can invest out hearts, brains, energy and labour in, and this is the source of our happiness.

you are the lucky generation: wars are just history

You’ve never had to chant: ‘Shame on the Israeli aggressors!’, you’ve never had to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, read news about provocations in revolutionary Cuba. How far away these events are from you! […] Young crowd of 2017! We are sure that you have justified the trust your heroic predecessors have invested in you, that you have created a new world.

https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/9371/soviet-time-capsules-comrades-1967-2017-russian-revolution-centenery

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

The thing that is so heartbreaking about reading things wrote by communists of that time is the confident optimism they looked upon the world with. They were absolutely convinced that history was progressing and that they had a bright future to look forward to.

Having grown up in the aftermath of the counter-revolutions of '89 and living with the increasingly dire consequences of climate change most people today has never known hope. Not even reactionaries believe that the future is going to be better than the present.