#Soviet

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

It's Victory Day, the anniversary of Germany's capitulation in WWII, which happened 5/9, Moscow time. It's probably been our most meaningful holiday, unfortunately marred lately by Putin's garish & sickening

Sirka Barat

OTownAva

I read a lot of tweets from academic and foreign policy types about modern Afghanistan's history and how we still feel them shape and shake current affairs, and a lot

Max Fras

maxfras

This morning, Dmitry Medvedev decided to post a lengthy letter "On Poland" - it is a curious mix of Soviet and pan-Slavic mythology with mockery, dire criticism and veiled threats

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

A quick Cold War related observation about Tom Cotton and his thing about Chinese students: There's a reason the USSR didn't want its students studying in the United States or

Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳

Aabhas24

15/n One letter [published in a Russian news daily Izvestia on June 27, 1992, in an article by Ms.Yevgenia Albats of Moscow News] was written by the then KGB chief,

Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

DrAlakbarov

Thread: Tahir Salahov is my favourite painter of all time.In 1937, his father was arrested as he was accused of being a member of the counter-revolutionary organization in the Soviet

Oluyomi Ojo

OluyomiOjo

Estonia’s startup community is actually a good thing to behold. With a population of 1.3m (< Alimosho). $30b GDP and GDP per capital almost 10X that of Nigeria. Unemployment is

jessi

dontbroco

here we go, a thread of my favourite tumblr posts and memes: 82. i have come back to this thread,,, to add,,,, this gem i have seen just now 8.

BhikuMhatre

MumbaichaDon

Thread :In spite of President Putin saying that Russia doesn't intend to invade Ukraine....Today Russian Forced have invaded Ukraine.So....Was President Putin misleading world? Actually No.Let me give you 10 reasons

Sherzod Muminov

msherzodm

If and when we can all travel, I would like to go to Tayshet. Here are the reasons why (a thread) Tayshet, in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast, was the site of

John Suarez ن

johnjsuarez

Same Castro regime that wanted to start World War 3 remains in power in Cuba today: Some lessons from 1962 for 2020 https://cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/10/same-castro-regime-that-wanted-to-start.html 1/ "Those who cannot rememb

Zoomer Nation

Sarma_Aalia

The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone was a greater success than the Soviet Union or virtually any other ML project. CHAZ showed us the anarchist spirits that are within the spirits

clark 🍄🌲

bogspectre

Shovel Autism Thread Part 2: Entrenching Tool Collection Edition The MPL-50 is an old design, invented by Danish officer Mads Linnemann in 1869. It was quickly adopted by most European

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derpyminstrel

a thread of questions for non russian oomfs: qrt to answer name at least one russian city that is not moscow or saint petersburg what is this? is this even

John McAllister

john_mcal

Thread of people from Barry who should have statues/plaques: Gareth Jones (1905-1935)Gareth was a journalist travelling to the Soviet Union in 1933. Whilst in the Soviet Union he witnessed and

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

One worry I have about a side-effect of the #COVID19 pandemic is that some our societies might turn into de facto 'technocracies'. I find the current obsession with statistics, diagnostics,