#Soviet

It's Christmas. Do you think there are 3 wise men or 6 wise men? Or 6 wise men and women? Ever heard of Tuxedo Park, NY? How about the name
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2/In recent years, China's economic model has seemed to go from strength to strength. Many now wonder if Chinese state-capitalism is superior to other systems.https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-newsletter-9 3/But China's mod
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1/6 As Putin grapples with nationwide protests, here's a thread about how Russia's domestic problems can have bit repercussions for the rest of the world. Read the full story I
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We all know that India was a part of British Empire and before participating in ww1 Britain said that India will be given freedom post ww1 if they entered ww1
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Recently @nlw posted this image and lamented the fact that we are repeatedly let down by our elected officials. I agree, it's incredibly frustrating.However, what I'd like to do is
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Story time (1/x)Growing up, I didn't hear hyperbolic stories about walking uphill both ways in the snow for school.My mother is an immigrant. She was born in Germany, in 1936.
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50 things that are better already1. You can ignore Twitter
2. The White House briefing room is not a nightmare of lies
3. We are now confronting white domestic terrorism
4. We are
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Tonight in 1983, more than 100 million Americans saw multiple thermonuclear weapons destroy Lawrence, Kansas, in "The Day After" on ABC. A.C. Nielsen Co. reported that 62% of television sets
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Whatever you think you know about the #Holocaust you do not know it all. And neither do I. It is too enormous to be known, it is too enormous to
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Today is celebrated as Holocaust Memorial Day. The date was chosen because the Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945.It is important to point out
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Chess is one of the world's oldest and most popular games. It's often depicted in art as the ultimate intellectual showdown.Here are three stories about chess from art history: If
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A #thread about some cool facts about Russia.1. Russia has a very high literacy rate – with 99.7% of the population able to read and write by age 15 2.
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As a kid visiting family in China, I was taken to see Tiananmen Square by my dad. We stood in front of the portrait of Mao for a while, watching
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In what was United Bengal (modern day West Bengal+Bangladesh) back in 1941, Muslims were 56% of the population, and today they are approximately about 67% of the population. If you
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THREAD You may be thinking - #Belarus? Where? Odd European corner of the post-Soviet community. But many great people were born in what is modern-day Belarus, people who created much
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An interesting tale about submarines.A Soviet submarine ran aground on Sweden's south coast very close to a Swedish naval base in 1981. They claimed it was due to an emergency
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