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Federico Italiano
FedeItaliano76
Just a reminder that Arseniy Kotov's is one of my favourite photographers of the post-Soviet world—a few more here https://instagram.com/p/CFB9jrZjGNL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Arseniy Kotov's fascinating and insightful post-S
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Alex
JewishWonk
29 years ago today the Soviet Union ceased to exist. It's a celebrated day in the West. It's more complicated for those who lived through it. We went to bed
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Dov, wall collapse enthusiast
lituainianach
This is technically correct, if you consider that "the majority of people living in the USSR" means Russians.Who had absolutely no right of input into whether Ukraine or Belarus should
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鍾翔宇 Xiangyu
notXiangyu
Anti-Trotsky Thread:1. People who hold up Trotsky as some kind of heroic revolutionary genius must deliberately forget that time in 1918 when Lenin sent him to Brest-Litovsk to make peace
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Scuderia
GaleWoo41521620
"Americans are touchy about the memory of the Red Army playing the lead role in the destruction of the Wehrmacht. “What about Lend-Lease,” they say, “without our supplies, the Soviet
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Notes from Georgia/South Caucasus (Hälbig, Ralph)
SouthCaucasus
1/ Zaal Andronikashvili @Zaaliko: "I do not know if anyone wrote anything about the wild architecture of the 90s (probably I have not met and if you know, "link me",
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
The new Reagan FRUS / Soviet Union volume has just been released, triggering a new round of debate about how close we came to nuclear war in 1983. See this
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Slava Malamud
SlavaMalamud
Towards the end of this interview, Biden talks about "amelioration of the immigration situation", which means "letting Soviet Jews go."Many of them, who owe their current US citizenship to Biden,
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Georgy
oktyabrvperedi
Thread on the Electrification of the Soviet Union. The "State Commission for Electrification of Russia" or "GOLERO plan" was the first plan for the economic development of the Soviet Union.
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
Spent a few hours reading the Soviet records on the deep freeze in Soviet-US relations in the early 1980s. Moscow resented US pressure on human rights, on Afghanistan, on Poland.
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Samo Burja
SamoBurja
When they eventually write the book about COVID, I hope they use the prologue to explain how Chernobyl came out in 2019. 1/4 That the prestige-TV watching public chuckled grimly
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the go-betweens stan account
od_sobolev
Ilya @Iheartnoise started publishing his translation of alexander kushnir's book "100 tape albums of soviet rock"., a crucial document that was first published (in samizdat) in 1990. it outlined how
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
I hesitated for a bit whether I should post excerpts from the following documents as they can easily be quoted out of context but I've decided to do it anyway.
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Slava Malamud
SlavaMalamud
For those of you not vexillologically minded, let's talk a bit about flags and symbols seen in #Belarus.The current red-green state flag, used by Lukashenko loyalists, is a slightly modified
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Ari Paul ⛓️
AriDavidPaul
In quarantine I've been binging "The Americans", a TV show set in the cold war about a family of Russian spies living in the US. A line by the Russian
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Georgy
oktyabrvperedi
The Soviet Educational System, a thread The literacy rate in the Russian Empire was extremely low (of only 28,4% according to the 1897 census).After the Bolshevik revolution, during the 8th Party
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