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Shaun Walker
shaunwalker7
"Hitler's alligator" has died in Moscow zoo. He was 84!Rus TV says Saturn born in US in 1936, moved to Berlin zoo but escaped in bombing raids. In 1946 British
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Ad Infinitum
Ad_Inifinitum
Soviet poster from 1960 tagging @ShaneSheehy for the propaganda, as is tradition Another Soviet poster that still rings painfully true original https://twitter.com/joqsucks/status/1282775050836258816 This one is from 1978."Terror, Raci
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🌲Ⓐ λ Anarkismus λ ☭ 🖤❤️
Anarkismus_
Here's some stuff about the Soviet Union.A Thread. 1) Some books about the USSR available for free : -Worker's participation in the Soviet Union (Mick Costello, 1977) : https://archive.org/stream/WorkersParticipationInTheSovietUnio
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tia
damascusbaby
today i learned that the fall of communism in the 80s is what caused the massive explosion in the human trafficking market “this expansion was related to globalization, with its
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Dylan Levi King
dylanleviking
A film by Sang Hu 桑弧 about industrial policy, The Second Spring 第二个春天 (1975) focuses on the '60s and the exodus of Soviet expertise after the Sino-Soviet split, while being
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Oren Cass
oren_cass
1/ Let's discuss this remarkable article in @nytimes about the importance of universal daycare. No, not the @KathaPollitt op-ed from Sunday. An article from 1974 about conditions in the Soviet
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Kevork Oskanian
DrKevorkO
Just for the fun of it, I'm putting the relevant verses in a thread below. Enjoy.https://twitter.com/drkevorko/status/1273897952315129857 Armenian SSR:«Great Russia extended to us the hand of friendship,We created a strong new
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Destroyer of Bad Takes Hulk
_Credible_Hulk
One of the most impactful classes I took in college was Russian Economic Transition with Dr. Richard Ericson. Dr. Ericson must be one of the foremost experts on the Soviet
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Dog Who Bites 🌉
dogwhobites
1. These threads glorifying the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan pop up like clockwork complete with orientalisms like calling every Afghan who resisted the invasion a "religious extremist" & conflating Afghan
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Julian Gewirtz
JulianGewirtz
US-China relations are endlessly compared to a new "Cold War"—but I think we need more creative analogies. One analogy that I've been considering recently is less well known to Americans
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Sasha Jason
sashasjason
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl/Chernobyl disaster. Despite more awareness in recent years, I don't think Americans truly feel the gravity of the event as a tragedy. This
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Misha Saul
misha_saul
At dinner tonight my (ex-Soviet) uncle expressed his deep concern at the political terror sweeping the US (and bleeding into other Western countries)Pointed out a key difference between the Soviet
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michael "Dual Range Summicron" o.
michaelouz
Listening to the Arctic Monkeys, looking at this chart, and it occurs to me: of course culture has been stuck in a hauntological retrograde for the last 15-20 years. Boomers
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
Re-reading the records of the 1945 Potsdam Conference. One thing that strikes me is how the Soviets defended their gains in E. Europe. When the Americans refused to recognise the
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Georgy ☭
oktyabrvperedi
Nadyezhda Krupskaya and the development of the Soviet educational system, a thread. Krupskaya, apart from being Lenin's wife, is the author of numerous works on communist education and pedagogy and
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Vishnu Prasad 🌗
weshnoo
TIL that Shah-i-Zinda complex, a necropolis in Samarkand, Uzbekistan was formed over eight centuries(from 11th to 19th) Also a fascinating fact about the Curse of Taimur, great great great
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