On this day in 1972, inmates at a Washington, D.C. jail seized control of part of their prison, taking hostages and demanding to be released.

The uprising began when an inmate, pretending to have a seizure, drew a loaded .38 pistol on the two officers that came to check on him. After subduing the officers, they freed 50 other inmates and took control of the cellblock, capturing several other guards as hostages in the process.

The inmates demanded to speak to a prison reporter, Washington Claiborne. Inmates issued varying statements to him that indicated a revolutionary fervor among prisoners:

"We don't want nothin' but the sidewalk. What do you think we want, better food? Bullshit. We want the sidewalk, man."

"We want you to understand one thing very clearly. This is not a riot, it's a revolution."

"We ain't bitches, man. We don't mind dying for the fucking cause."

Prison negotiators eventually got the inmates to back off of demanding release, but only in exchange for the opportunity to go before a federal judge to air their grievances about the jail and the promise of no reprisals for their actions. The inmates got their hearing, and a new facility was built.

Despite the promise of no reprisals, all nine inmates who participated in the uprising were prosecuted and convicted on various charges.

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Six Komsomol members volunteered to saw large logs into 1/2-yard logs to heat the school. The three leaders of pairs were Yolodya, Petya, and Vasya.

Volodya and Misha would saw up 2-yard logs, Petya and Kostya, 1 1/2-yard logs, and Vasya and Fedya, 1-yard logs. (These are all first names.)

The next day the school bulletin praised the good work of teams led by Lavrov, Galkin, and Medvedev. Lavrov and Kotov sawed logs into 26 small logs, Galkin and Pastukhov, 27, and Medvedev and Yevdokimov, 28. (These are all last names.)

What is Pastukhov's first name?

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  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    My succdem boomer in-laws have the most horrible politics. Through low-skilled physical labour they have managed to climb the social ladder a tiny bit so they're now one or two steps above the absolute bottom and it makes them feel so insufferably high and mighty about the people below them.

    My GF has had a really hard time finding a job matching her qualifications and her mom and stepdad are horribly nasty to her about it. They can't understand that just because you have a degree it doesn't mean you can work every job requiring that degree. They can't understand that having a degree makes it more difficult to get unskilled jobs because employers expect you to bolt at the first chance of a better job. They can't understand that an eight hour commute is not realistic for a family with three kids.

    My GF, their only daughter, the mother of their grandchildren, is feeling miserable about being unemployed and they do nothing to support her. Contrary they dunk on her for not having had a driver's licence ten years back, for choosing the wrong degree, for being too picky about jobs and spare no excuse for to tell her about how they have always had jobs since they were thirteen. They tell her to her face that she must be bad at her job since nobody wants to hire her. They compare her to her cousins who are doing quite well for themselves but without mentioning how they are only doing so because their dad is a CEO and has used his money and connections to help them every step of the way. They clap their hands like sealions every time the government purposes new and harsher rules for the unemployed. Her stepdad had his back ruined by a work accident and the idiot wears that as a badge of pride.

    I can't stand these people. They are complete garbage.