#Lviv

I hadn't planned to post this image, but it's been gnawing at me all day. My people are not traditionally a quiet people so CW: the next tweet contains a
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[Thread] Ok, I suppose I should talk a little about this whole Gina Carano/Cara Dune #Holocaust cancel situation.She shared this image (among others) which led to her censure (not censor)
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It's Holocaust Memorial Day. This is a photograph of my great-grandparents, Joachim and Amalia. Before the war, they owned a woodwork factory in Krakow. By the time this photograph was
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Today would have been my granny’s hundredth birthday. She died in 2009. I remember her as a loving grandmother who spoiled my brother, sister and I. But I also recall
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Although I managed to do a few great trips in 2020, it also made me realise how lucky I was this year to live a life relatively unaffected by the
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America's collusion with neo-nazis: a looong & detailed thread on white nationalism in ukraine, the Nazi Reichskommissariat dictatorship of 1941-1944, the azov battalion, the euromaidan coup d'état, and the US
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This week we look at the highly original and influential work by the rationally-inclined Muhammad Asad: “The Message of the Qur’an”.#qurantranslationoftheweek Born Leopold Weiss in 1900 in Austria-Hungary (modern-day
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I was listening today to a lecture (on youtube) on Covid by Russia’s famous pneumonia expert, Academician Alexander Chuchalin. He was for years one of the top Kremlin doctors: he
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Recently in Kyiv, right-wing nationalists protested the Ukrainian president Zelenskiy by staging a mock funeral for "justice." Far-right orgs like National Corps, Democratic Axe, and C14's Society of the Future
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Stanisław Wyspiański, was born #OTD in 1869.One of the most prominent members of the Young Poland art movement, Wyspiański's polymathic body of work encompassed paintings, pastels, stained glass windows, plays,
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[Thread] I've been inspired by a couple things this week to share a piece of my current book project on the Janowska concentration camp outside of Lviv, Ukraine.In particular, it
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In einer Zeit, in der die ganze Welt über Rassismus und Rechtsextremismus in der Polizei, über Polizeigewalt und rassistische Tötungsdelikte durch Polizeibeamte diskutiert, macht die größte deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft folgende Geschic
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@SilenceInPolish is doing her excellent August series on the Polish 1st Armored Division. The beginning of their campaign as a division coincides with the Warsaw Uprising in Poland.This first thread
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Fini d’apprendre par coeur les capitales grâce aux coupes d’Europe ! Donetsk, Cluj, Debrecen, Ludogorets, Plzen… C’est désormais la province qui domine le football à l’Est du continent.Analyse en cartes
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THREAD sur la saison 2010-2011 du PSGSaison historique pour le PSG puisque le club de la capitale fête ses 40 ans ! Nous allons consacrer ce thread sur cette saison
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Not sure if anyone is tracking the number of Russian intelligence officers who have been declared persona non grata recently, so I'll go ahead and start a thread. Colombia PNG'd
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