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Timothy Snyder
TimothyDSnyder
Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe. 1/16 In normal times, Ukraine
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Joy Bhattacharjya
joybhattacharj
My annual thanks to Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov who on this day, thirty seven years ago, probably saved our planet. Petrov was the officer at the command center for the
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Agha_Bayramov
AghaBayramov
1) Personal observation: some Dutch media e.g., @NOS @nrc, and politicians do not have strong background information about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Thus, they constantly highlight the religious aspect of the
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Tanvi Madan
tanvi_madan
This was a lot of fun to do. Thanks v much to @ORF, Dr. Nilanjan Ghosh & @ananthkrishnan. As promised, on Twitter I'll answer some of the questions that we
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Ali A Olomi
aaolomi
I didn't even know there were tweeps whitewashing the Soviet-Afghan war until @suraiasahar tweeted/rt some stuff. Afghan historians worked too hard to push back on US narratives only to have
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🏴 Exceedingly Unseelie 🏴
der_bluthund
The thing that people get wrong about me is I am not left wing, not in the traditional Socialist sense. I am not right wing or centrist either. I am
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Advaid അദ്വൈത്
Advaidism
The Chinese don't care about anything beyond their Borders. Not even Communist Nations.They had a huge dispute with Soviet Union. China even invaded Communist Vietnam (Sino-Vietnamese War) in 1979 after
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Papa Dora
crunchybedsheet
23rd August marks the 31st anniversary of the Baltic Way and a missed opportunity to make a Baltic sandwich.A thread 1/10 What and where are the Baltics? I ask myself
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Irkutyanin
Irkutyanin1
Will post some excerpts from this as I read it whenever it has something interesting to say. But why Stalin’s War, and not Hitler’s? For McMeekin, the war begins in
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Loïc Frémond, Homo Politicus 🌐🏳️🌈
LoicTheStoic
Right, time for a thread on what life was like if you were LGBT in the Soviet Union:Part I I'll try and do this by decade:1910s:After Bolsheviks formed the RSR,
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Gillian Dempsey
catedempsey
The new Australian curriculum will only teach multiplication tables in year 4 (when kids are 9/10 years old). Australia is dumbing itself down SO much that I am tempted to
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Maven
free_oscillator
Currently reading Yuri Slezkine's *The House of Government* because (1) @Scholars_Stage recommended it and (2) *The Jewish Century* was very good, and a striking thing I am finding is that
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valifestivali
updates abt the chernobyl even no one cares. pripyat didnt get touched the situation is somewhat under control but its stabilising!!! radiation ( not that high YET) reached belarus already
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عبد الصمد التركماني القيصري
TurkmaniAnsari
I really don't like to talk about this in public, but firstly I advise every sister to mute the words 'Khabib' and 'UFC' as some brothers who usually tweet about
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Robert Glennie 🇳🇿
RobertGlennieNZ
World War 2 entered 75 years ago today with Japan's surrender. Whilst much of the credit goes to the Americans in terms of the Western response to Japanese aggression, they
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Antonio García Martínez
antoniogm
If you'd told my grandparents in 1958 Havana that the most pro-capitalist, pro-US, highest-living-standard country in Latin America--the country they'd left Europe for--was soon to become a totalitarian Soviet proxy
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