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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
A quick thread comparing Soviet motivations for intervention between 1956 and 1989.1) Poland. 1956. After Gomulka, whom the Soviets considered a nationalist, gained power and tried to force out pro-Soviet
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Avinash Paliwal
PaliwalAvi
1. NSA A. Doval in Kabul in 2021 reminds me of former-R&AW chief A.K. Verma’s visit in ‘88. He was sent by R. Gandhi to assess the ‘sustainability’ of the
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Shashank Joshi
shashj
Good @jststs essay on the historiographical wars over the second world war and the Soviet role in it. "It is increasingly hard to write anything of consequence about this war
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plaind0sa
Random history facts thread part 2: The first Mc Donald's in Soviet Russia. The first Mc Donald's opened up in Soviet Russia on 31 January 1990. While the opening of
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Alex
JewishWonk
A couple of thoughts on this tweet in a quick thread because this is a public forum and not everyone shares my assumptions underlying this.https://twitter.com/JewishWonk/status/1351592938246168583 1) When assessing cabinet picks
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Sam Hirst
Samuel_J_Hirst
Smokestacks and Pipelines. @Onur_Isci_ and I have written an article that argues for an economic approach to Turkish-Russian relations over the past years and engages with recent discussions of
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RoS
ohwhatawaytogo
Thread on revisionism, because a lot of people, I think, either misunderstand what it is in a Marxist sense or have very rudimentary understandings. Revisionism, when referred to in a
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Sarah Patrick
Sarah99691151
USSR Constitution 1977Chapter 8, Article 71 lists all 15 Union Republics and Chapter 8, Article 72 immediately after in black & white and very clearly reads: "Each Union Republic retains
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Slava Malamud
SlavaMalamud
Bud, let me tell you something about words.My dad, a Soviet Jew, was once called a racial slur by an NCO. After which he felt obliged to lay him out
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Irène DB
UrbanFoxxxx
An extreme form of 'kamikaze loggias', informal structures characteristic of post-Soviet Tbilisi. Anarchic, vernacular extensions of Soviet buildings have been created since the 1990s, and now preside over the collective
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(((Sultan-Caliph says Palpatine was Right☃❄🇵🇸)))
abdallaha92
Ok so I saw a tweet claiming anti-Zionisim was a right wing ideology. I want to explain why the whole premise of that is wrong, but I don't feel like
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Ned Richardson-Little
HistoryNed
#GDR #OTD 1953 – June 17th Uprising: thousands take to the streets across East Germany (1) East German austerity plans demanding increased work norms without pay rise sparked initial protests
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ⒶmžinⒶ
Makno20
Nazi Germany could never even have BEGUN world war 2 without Soviet and US help. (more US, than soviet, but still considerable soviet resources and raw materials) The nazis wouldn't
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Samo Burja
SamoBurja
When an institution fails, nobody seems to have seen it coming. The collapse of the Soviet Union came as a shock even to the Soviet dissidents.Why exactly are we always
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Faith Hillis
FaithCHillis
An experiment in open-source education: I've decided to make the reading list for the class on the Soviet collapse that I'm teaching with @leahmfeldman open to the public, along with
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Pradheep J. Shanker
Neoavatara
I read this a second time last night, and I got even angrier. The evidence that the Japanese would have surrendered in August is slim to none, even in retrospect,
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