#Soviet

Meet #HumanRights activist #SarvarTedorov-leader of deported #MeskhetianTurks who began his activism in Soviet #Uzbekistan fighting for right of his people to return to their homeland in #Georgia until violence in
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Hmm with the break up of the USSR approaching its 30th anniversary, I should probably make another historical thread on the what was the long term & short term reasons
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We Brits are a glorious mongrel race. Our roots lie deep within mainland Europe. Saxons, Vikings, Romans, Normans, Hugenots and in more modern times those who escaped Nazi & Soviet
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Unit 8200 controls New York. They are also stationed in Silicon Valley and Boston. Some 350 High Tech Israeli firms currently operate in New York. There are some 5,000 Israeli
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1/This.https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1327820177229180928 2/“You have sisu. It is within the reach of everyone. It lies within you.” THE SISU WITHIN YOU: THE FINNISH KEY TO LIFE, LOVE AND SUCCESShttps://finland.fi/arts-culture/s
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End of year, good time for introspection & looking to the future. Here's a thread covering my reckons from this year about what Auckland needs to succeed in the future
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So. If youve read Briarley by @AsterGlenn that Ive previously hyped up on here, you know that her stories are full of so much heart and kindness and humor. Her
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When we talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we tend to focus on August 6 and August 9th. But August 8th, 1945, is one of the most important dates for understanding
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ummm guys america's most popular video game made an entire trailer promoting a fascist named yuri bezmenov pushing a far-right conspiracy theory. I don't know a single american male who
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The latest attempt to smear #Churchill again, esp. with responsibility for the #Bengal Famine, is ironically Euro-centric. This smear strips Indians, Bengalis, and Japanese of agency, and perpetuates ignorance of
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The United States isn't Rome. It's the Soviet Union. What I mean is that we're not a stately empire being slowly devoured by migration and invasion. We're a bloated one
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Some kosher Catholics say that since Luther was antisemitic, and since the NSDAP had more support in Protestant than Catholic regions of Germany, this proves that Protestantism is antisemitic.Actually, many
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Reading the Cummings programme, as delivered by Gove, there are a number of echoes of revolutionary programmes through history. https://bit.ly/2Vs0tyv  1/8 There’s the milennial zeal, the belief that the existing
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To justify its destruction of Armenian heritage, Azerbaijan often accuses Armenia of doing the same to Islamic sites.This is part of Azerbaijan's effort to vilify Armenians.In reality, the USSR oversaw
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100 years ago today, 19 July 1920, the opening ceremony of the Second Comintern Congress took place in Petrograd.Among the international delegates were two from Ireland: Roddy Connolly, son of
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I’ve seen a few tweets framing protest in Belarus as a the end of a post-Soviet social contract where people gave up democratic representation for the stability of authoritarianism. People
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