#Soviet

Pavel Iosad

anghyflawn

One of the things really being laid bare in the school results fiasco is the widespread belief that high-stakes final exams are the 'real' measure of achievement (or even ability).

Alex

JewishWonk

We left Belarus as stateless refugees. Years after we left, the Lukashenko regime put in place restrictions that made it challenging for us to ever return. For most of my

K. Louise Neufeld 🇺🇸

ninaandtito

You can read all about "Tarzan" in @heymalarek's brilliant and terrifying book about the global rape trade, The Natashas. How 'Tarzan' and a Cuban duo 'got in deep' with a

Eleanor Freund

eleanor_freund

https://twitter.com/peter_dutton/status/1356290467776880644 Pentagon estimated in 2019 that China would begin construction on next-generation SSBN, the Type-096, in the early 2020s. If this is indeed an SSBN and not an SSN, looks

Tugboat-Elect Phil

TugboatPhil

Those that tried to destroy us in 2001, took advantage of our laws & good nature to betray us.Those trying to destroy us in 2020, were given every advantage of

BirdWorldist 🕊🌎🇵🇸

PatthewMallares

It's long been obvious that call of duty games are US military propaganda. The upcoming game in the series is about the cold war and focuses around real life kgb

DR. Waitman Wade Beorn (Amputate to heal)

waitmanb

[Thread] Everybody is talking about the ridiculous #1776Commission report.So, I just skipped to the Fascism part 'cause that's kind of my jam. And, yeah, it's mind-numbingly stupid. "Ideological cousins?"Yeah, about

UNCLE CONSOLE👵

theonlyconsole_

These fascinating Osama Bin Laden facts featuring Whitney Houston and Dwayne Johnson(The Rock) will blow your mind.Scroll with me Osama bin Laden was the 17th of an estimated 58 children

Iron Spike

Iron_Spike

"Mods why isn't Biden arrested yet? :'C"https://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1351939144176570370 So hey, awful story time.In 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by the Soviet Air Force. (It had drifted into

James Palmer

BeijingPalmer

this seems like an ... imaginative thesis.https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1359987183298482192 specifically, it seems like massively back-projecting the politics of today into an entire alien geopolitical and ideological climate. Wh

Sher Khashimov

sher_khashimov

My mom was my age when the country she grew up and was happy in collapsed. Her new country has never lived up to the expectations. Those who demonize USSR

The Holocaust Reader

HolocaustReader

In 1981, @StarTrek II: Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer was sitting on set, reading the paper, when he saw something that made him jump out of his chair. Few

Jeremy Duns

JeremyDuns

Why do they? I know a lot of this will be obvious, but I'm going to try to answer it anyway. One issue is that people on this strand of

Кирилл Каминец

Noetic_Pirate

Russian philosopher DMITRY GALKOVSKY on the 2020 United States presidential election: Houston, you have a problem.The standard argument against Russian schadenfreude about the outrageous things happening in the U.S. is

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

Advaidism

During World War 2, the Nazis were afraid of 46th Taman Regiment (An all-female regiment of Soviet Air force)The Nazis dubbed them the 'Night Witches', on account of the way

five percent battery

BatteryFive

You knew where you stood with the Trujillos and Perons of the world. They had a set of beliefs that were easily recognizable and it was easy to 'color within

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