#USSR

Rick Westhead

rwesthead

Really interesting cache of “secret” and “confidential" papers just released by Canadian govt under Access to Information that detail correspondence by Canadian diplomats & intelligence officers during the lead up

Despair HANGOVER & Ecstasy

vaziggy

Thread des guitares qui souhaitent mourir vu leur design atroce :Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird Gibson reverse Explorer L'éclair de ma space pallet n'a rien à lui envier mdr...... Gibson reverse V

CaliCali2000

CaliCali2000

Grown up white American men talk like little boys.Here are some basic truths of life for those folks: 1. No country is the “greatest.” Every country has strengths and

i am in training, don't kiss me

MissPavIichenko

the common narrative about the 1932 soviet famine was popularized by nazi emigres who never even experienced the famine (they were from western ukraine which was part of poland) but

Cdr Ashok Bijalwan

AshTheWiz

An interesting tale about submarines.A Soviet submarine ran aground on Sweden's south coast very close to a Swedish naval base in 1981. They claimed it was due to an emergency

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

Sherzod Muminov

msherzodm

Tayshet, in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast, was the site of an important labor camp complex that served the BAM. Its units held many foreigners, including thousands of Japanese POWs. Among them

Audra J. Wolfe, PhD

ColdWarScience

A thread on today’s Never Just Science, on Lysenko, Lysenkoism, what it means to call something “Lysenkoist.”https://neverjustscience.substack.com/p/lysenkos-ghosts I felt I owed you all this post, if nothing else to explain

ani

anigyulinyan

What’s happening in Armenia? (Thread) HISTORY: Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh) is an indigenous Armenian land which was annexed by Stalin in 1923 to the newly formed Soviet Republic

Joseph Torigian

JosephTorigian

This new piece by Jiang Shigong is remarkable for several reasons. It claims that the US plot to achieve “peaceful evolution” was actually working precisely as DC hoped – engagement

Tito ☭ 🇸🇻 ⛰️ 🐈🐕 #antiwokeleft :)

adxtrjuseniorit

Haters gonna hate.But let's start to remember, starting to remember Hand of God, the goal of Diego Armando Maradona, but was epic this, specially part of victory toto the Argentina

Anirudh Goel

_anirudh_goel_

Thread on #JawaharlalNehruNehru's tenure as Independent India's Prime Minister was one of abysmal failure. He laid the foundation for 3 ideas that would weaken the roots of India, economically, strategically

Robert Steele

rob_steele1

On the morning of 12 October 1971, the 2500th Anniversary Celebrations began at Pasargadae with the ‘Glorification of Cyrus the Great' ceremony’. (1/10) This homage by the Shah to Cyrus

Bryan MacDonald

27khv

Not good. Azerbaijan launched “an offensive” against Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday morning, Armenia has claimed. There have been reports of Azeri aircraft being shot down. Baku says it is taking “retaliatory

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

Ordovician Lenin

Marxozoic

Famous people on Stalin "By the way, there are increasing signs that the Russian trials are not faked, but that there is a plot among those who look upon Stalin