#USSR

Had this paper not come about, we wouldn't have know!On a serious note, if the US did not have such a fantastic record of screwing-up on its commitments, Indian military
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A small hopeful story about art, and the 20th Century in eastern Europe; with the help of Polish painter Alfons Kułakowski (1927-2020). #Thread Alfons was born in 1927 in Osiczyn
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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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Lithuania is not a very large country, but did you know that no fewer than 9 different Lithuanias claimed the territory of the present-day Lithuanian state during the course of
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Since the US media is painting the DPRK as an aggressor for the controlled demolition of their own building, but not the US for the invasion, genocide, occupation of Korea
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[HISTORY THREAD]The USSR was a multinational socialist federation, and during the country's greatest trial yet: The Great Patriotic War soldiers of all the nations of the Union served in the
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If you’re an immigrant, there are memories and traditions you have that don’t make sense in the context of your new homeland and identify. For some Russian Jews, one such
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: China is not a social democracy. A social democracy implies liberal democracy, social programs funded through imperialism, no serious desire to eliminate capitalism. China does not check any of
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This statue is private property. Ok so I got curious and am kind of going down a rabbit hole: I was wondering if there were still any statues of Stalin
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I'd disagree with the core premise underlying this paper. We often read stuff to the effect that the Cold War was in a category of its own because it entailed
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#THREAD | Reality check on the current status of Yemeni Socialist Party, Yemeni leftist politics, and "South" Yemen (PDRY): The Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) was originally founded in 1978 after
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Unlike many people I see China as likely to be most affected by Biden's win. Unlike Trump who followed anti-China policies out of spite, Biden can create a very powerful
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Indira Gandhi had neither badassery nor iron resolve.She had massive insecurities and paranoia, so both her inner circle of bureaucrats and the Soviet Embassy worked tirelessly to paper over this
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- minor accident that demonstrated secondary containment works well- the USSR building a graphite pile that everyone else knew was unsafe and then doing real-life Wile E. Coyote science on
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Excellent question. China has studied the USSR failings deeply. One of the lessons they learned was how the USSR interacted with the west. The Cold War in someways was an
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The US wanted to assist Tibetan resistance movements through supplies of weapons, but could not do so because Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru refused to permit such items from being transported
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