This is almost as sad as the 1967 Soviet time capsules. Opened in 2017.

“The youth of our region is gifting you, the young ones of the 21st century, with Koryazhma that has been turned from a small village into a modern town within ten years, Severdodvinsk that we built on land that used to be swamps, and the colossal wood industry of the North: Kotlass, Solombal and Arkhangelsk factories. We know that you will have better lives than us,”

“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”

“We paid a heavy price of millions of lives for our victory. And today, on 22 June 1969, on the 28th anniversary of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany on our Soviet country, we address you, those who don’t know what war is. We urge you to remember and respect the memory of those who gave their lives in the fight for socialism, who died defending the freedom of the motherland and European nations from foreign invaders. Guard like sacred relics the monuments we have built to commemorate those who died.”

“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.”

“Dear descendants, today you are celebrating a unique day: a hundred years of Soviet rule. […] We know our time is interesting, but yours is much more so. We are building communism and you live it. We believe that you have perfectly equipped our blue planet, colonised the Moon, landed on Mars; that you are continuing the exploration of outer space that we, people of the first 50 years, have begun, and that your ships are sailing across the galaxy. We believe you are holding talks about scientific and cultural collaboration with representatives of other galaxies, alien civilisations. We believe that the work that our fathers and grandfathers started 50 years ago and which we share, you will finish and bring to victory.”

Damn. I appreciate the optimism, but that's the worst prediction of all time.

The only real functions of the house of lords are to block legislation for up to two years and to serve as a retirement home for politicians past their use-by date.

Don’t forget the Shadow Ministry

there's literally bishops and archbishops and shit in there, iirc it's split up into the lords temporal and the lords spiritual? wild shit "democracy"

It's from Two Commonwealths as in the title

Edited it to make it clearer

Just vote out of the CIA bro...

Ah yes in liberal democracies you can vote for the fascist pro-cop party or the even more fascist pro-cop party. This is true freedom.

The cops are spying in real-time on every digital interaction anyone makes but fret not, come election day you can choose between those who loves the police state and those who are sexually aroused by it.