Today is the 105th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the 143rd birthday of comrade L.D. Trotsky, one of the revolution’s leaders and the founder of the Soviet Red Army.
“The workers’ state must be taken as it has emerged from the merciless laboratory of history and not as it is imagined by a ‘socialist’ professor, reflectively exploring his nose with his finger. It is the duty of revolutionists to defend every conquest of the working class even though it may he distorted by the pressure of hostile forces. Those who cannot defend old positions will never conquer new ones.”
This majestic sphinx of Queen Hatshepsut was created during her joint reign with her stepson Thutmose III. After the death of the queen-pharaoh (1458 BC) he will destroy the sphinx and bury it in a quarry together with other statues of Hatshepsut.
