#USSR

If you've seen the Oscar-winning documentary Icarus and found the film and related matters interesting / fascinating then there's a fairly significant development about to break, soonish, in this thread.
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THREAD: Causes I sympathise with but were hijacked by the anti-Israel, pro-CCP hard-left:1) Stop the War2) Occupy3) Women’s Movement4) XR5) Labour Party6) BLMThe Left warns the Right to guard against
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A convo in the DMs reminded me of something funny about how neoliberals discuss population & genetics. Namely, how they always switch their position depending on what suits them. The
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Was it possible to prevent the NK conflict in the late 1980s? 1987 was the last year when the war between #Azerbaijan and #Armenia could be prevented. Another long thread:
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1) The Trust was a brilliant Bolshevik counterintelligence operation. It was designed in part to seek out and destroy opponents of the Communists. An element of The Trust was to
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If someone were to write a procedure to make an RBMK reactor explode it would have looked a lot like what happened at Chernobyl in April 1986. The design was
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1. Stop me if you heard this one before. There once was a man who used religion to advance his Marxism/communism. He started a church and preached "Apostlic socialism". 2.
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What kind of healthcare system is #Cuba's? Is it really all milk and honey as claimed by Havana? How competent are Cuban doctors? What's the story of Cuban doctors who
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This is why I don't understand the politics of the Zoomer college kids. They're all either into weird leftcom bullshit or they're tankies. Being a radical in school, naturally you
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Book 1 of 2020: Railways & The Raj by Christian Wolmar. Great read about how the British set about building the railways in India. Also, points out how it was
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WHO said: "5G is a national priority.""Stay out of the way of technological development.""Unlike some countries we do not believe that we should spend the next couple of years studying
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Even though no one voted, I’m gonna tell you about the time I killed everyone in my battalion, and, became the hero for almost a month. Gather around boys and
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Peoples analysis here is so trite—the Nordic states are incredibly pro Capital and renowned for their ‘ease of doing business’—the corporatist style & their unique role of labor unions is
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THREAD Let's start a long thread about how Russian book market prepared Russians for a full-scale war against Ukraine, NATO, the West, and promoted stalinism and nazism, and how this
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On July 17th, 1986, during a televised talkshow between the USSR & USA, a Soviet woman famously exclaimed: "There is no sex in the Soviet Union!"If gays and sex were
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THREAD (Attacks on India after Loksabha Elections 2019)1/nUSCIRF attacks India on Art. 370 revocation and Citizenship Amendment Bill by adding India on Country of Particular Concern (CPC) List.This response by
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