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David Graeber
davidgraeber
my wife grew up in the Soviet Union and when we tried to watch .@BBCNews for a while, we had to give up because it reminded her too much of
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Bedivere Bedrydant
bedivere_knight
Putin caught flak for saying the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century, as if he meant that Russia should go back to
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Irène DB
UrbanFoxxxx
Kirov Reservoir, Talas region, Kyrgyzstan (1975) Submerged Lenin sculptures in the 'Alley of Leaders' off the coast of Crimea, an underwater graveyard of busts and statues of erstwhile Communist icons
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Dan Thomas
ItsDanThomas
Soviet bus stop appreciation thread. Ursula-Shulz-Dorburg“Bus stops in Armenia” Ursula-Shulz-Dorburg“Bus stops in Armenia” Ursula-Shulz-Dorburg“Bus stops in Armenia” Ursula-Shulz-Dorburg“Bus stops in
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DGo
Go321D
@akarlin88 The Soviet Union's greatest blunders:1. The creation of a totalitarian one-party regime2. Forced collectivization3. The Holodomor4. Not telling the German Communists to ally with the SPD to block Hitler's
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Adam Casey
adam_e_casey
A decree was signed Monday by Putin to establish a political department in the National Guard (Росгвардия). /1 This is in addition to the political directorate established within the regular
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Lachlan Stuart 🌹🗽
Lachlan_Edi
@sally_hines rather pompously suggests shes saddened that I'm on the wrong side of history. Our history isn't written yet. Neither Sally nor I know how it will unfold. But I
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Bes D. Socialist
besf0rt
cool fact: communism has never existed on a large scale in human history except for the pre-civilization days, if you wanna argue that that was a form of communism but
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אליהו - eliyahu
eliyahulann
I don’t think ppl realise the pain it brings russian & ex-soviet jews when we see communist glorification, and the denial of our ethnic cleansing on this site. My family
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Garry Kasparov
Kasparov63
Good piece. "The demonization mob" in the US isn't centrally controlled like the USSR's, but it's influenced by extremists who see it, accurately, as a path to personal power. They
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Leonid Ragozin
leonidragozin
This is a very strange and a truly post-Soviet, post-modernist monument. Hybrid art. The monument is dedicated to hundreds of thousands who perished in “the meat grinder of Rzhev” -
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Sean Toole
BoltonBasque
As this weekend marks the 83rd anniversary of the Niño’s arrival at Southampton I would like to share a story which links them with those sailed to the Soviet Union
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Fidato
tequieremos
“The Man Who Saved The World”On the night of September 26, 1983, the world almost ended. It was the height of the Cold War, and each side bristled with nuclear
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Maria Chong
mariachong
“Long life and prosperity to our Motherland!” (1949 Soviet propaganda poster) “Glory to the Soviet Teacher!” “We are growing up under the standard of Lenin-Stalin.” (1935) “Glorious Our Free Motherland
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
China-Russia relations have been in the news a lot in recent months. There is a sense that perhaps Moscow and Beijing are moving towards an alliance. Some see them already
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
The testimony this tweet links to is completely off the rails. But my critique would be different from most who see the author Daniel Tobin err in that he projects
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