#USSR

Dake Kang 姜大翼

dakekang

The Beijing that could have been, if Mao wasn’t so enamored of Moscow on his visit circa 1950https://twitter.com/jmchatwin/status/1293568994755129345 1/ Fun fact: I wrote a thesis paper on this topic.Beijing's city

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HyperBoraean

Gonna do a thread today on #OperationGridlock solely focused on screenshots from the FB group they’re organizing in, just to showcase how fucking stupid your average Trump supporter really is.Here’s

felix's gf

felixvrse

thread about mountain jews/juhurim mountain jews (juhuro in our language, or juhurim) are a mizrahi jewish group in the caucasus, mostly in dagestan and azerbaijan, but with smaller communities in

Brett Holman

Airminded

INTRODUCTION. This is the twitter version of the Zoom seminar on #AerialTheatre I gave yesterday to Deakin @Contemp_History entitled "History from below, looking up: aerial theatre, emotion and modernity": https://www.facebook.com

Shantyman

Boreal_Gael

NEUSCHWABENLAND, the secret war at the bottom of the world. I won't bother you with descriptions of Vrilcraft and a narrative overview of the popular tales surrounding Operation Highjump, here

Heather Pace Venable ✈️

Heather_at_ACTS

I'm back with my second book on China that I've read recently as I try to learn more: Robert Haddick's Fire on the Water, which I assumed would be more

StarMarx Glimmer

SunsetStalin

Ok, I’ll explain why I completely changed my view on Stalin and the Soviet Union.First, how did the Soviet Union “transited” from state-capitalism to “socialism”?https://twitter.com/SunsetStalin/status/1302084706054348800 In which

Prof. Kate Antonova

kpanyc

There's a history to Russophobia. Most Americans have imbibed it unconsciously, it saturated virtually all of postwar western media, subsided only slightly in the 90s and early 2000s. But it

Av*shai אֲבִישַׁי أَبِيشَي

YeOldeAvishai

Perhaps the safest place for a European Jew to have been living in during WWII was, ironically enough, under Axis-aligned powers.While all of Hitler's allies enjoyed their share of antisemitic

Malik Khurram Khan Dehwar

KhurramDehwar

Thread:Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a ruthlessly power hungry despot, who single handedly destroyed #Pakistan’s industrial & economic base & bureaucratic institutions by introducing cronyism, political patronage & corruption in our

Janek Lasocki

JanekLasocki

1/ Across Minsk and Belarus supporters of the opposition are hanging up and waving white-red-white flags – very different to the official state flag, which is red and green. Why

Polla Garmiany ☀️

PollaGarmiany

Ismail Abulfeda, known as Abulfeda, was a Kurdish 13th/14th-century chronicler, geographer, commander, and Emir of Hama. He wrote "The Concise History of Humanity" which was translated early on into Latin,

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/A follow-up thread on Nobel Prizes and Big Questions. Branko asks: Why don't we award prizes for economists who work on the incredibly important question of how China grew so

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛

hamandcheese

Ancaps became white nationalists because they realized the institutions that would form spontaneously in a stateless society would mirror racially separated prison gangs.Murray Rothbard, for ex, supported both the Black

Nazrin Bayramli

nathrine_

what is really happening in Azerbaijan; a thread starting from 12th of july, Armenia attacked the territories of Azerbaijan, which are internationally recognized by UN as a part of our

Raj 🇮🇳

LibtardsKaDoc

#THREAD𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗷𝗶’𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 ?We all know that thousands of Indians at home and abroad gave away precious gold & money to help in Netaji Subash Chandra