#Soviet

Comedy is only ever funny when it punches upwards, that’s why the powerful tend to be targets of humorists. Will be interesting to see what gets axed, & even more
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Hey @alidaaltemburg and @GlennGouldFndn ... it’s time for another #GlennGould #SocialDistancing mood board.. Also I really love this photo of him with his parents after his first tour of the
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We often exaggerate how important the specific US President and US foreign policy is to Russian decision-making, in particular across the post-Soviet space. The 2008 war with Georgia happened under
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Time for some Chernobyl... stuff (I won't say facts cos I don't how much if any of this actually true) we got told on a trip of the Exclusion Zone
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Thread on #Venezuela: Dictators in trouble always offer limited, symbolic "concessions" to play the international community for time and aid. The pattern is repeated so often that it is, well,
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Communism is trending: if you're a lib/demsoc/socdem , I implore you to throw everything you were taught about communism out the window: it's wrong. Everyone should read these books about
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Soviet Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin making a speech in #Wuhan, China in 1927 when Wuhan became capital of China after combined KMT/CCP United Front Northern Expeditionary Force took the city
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Ok as i said yesterday i will bring a thread on cryogenic Technology. I apologize to those who are not interested in this subject, they can skip this tweet.Gonna be
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If one had to pick three villains of 20th century, it would be hard to find worse than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Hitler’s regime ended in 1945. The Soviet Union
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLUZ9qRf5aI i know our fallen world deserves nothing, but for god's sake why can't a single one (1) of our hollywood nostalgia wank movies set in the 1970s be set
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I am pretty amazed that Alberta parents of k - 6 are willing to let Jason Kenney sort their kids according to what profession he thinks they should be stuck
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There are "historians" on either side of the debate, which is always what I find so insulting about this framing. It implies that it's brilliant, REAL historians against the stupid,
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In case you haven't noticed, this autumn has seen an unprecedented number of academic books on Uyghur history, culture, and politics. These are all studies that have been in the
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Back when the Cold War was a thing, the USSR and the US were quite evenly matched when it came to technology after the USSR was able to build its
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35 pages in John Gray's "Seven Types of Atheism". "When they declare themselves unbelievers, atheists are invoking an understanding of religion that has been unthinkingly inherited from monotheism".Modern Western atheists,
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Female Red Army sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, nicknamed "Lady Death", fought mainly in sieges of Odessa & Sevastopol. She has 309 total confirmed kills, including 36 Axis snipers. Pavlichenko now in
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