#Soviet

Jake Holliday

J_O_Holliday

Thread: A uniform with a curious past: this 1974 dated uniform jacket belonged to an Oberstleutnant of the Sanitätsdienst (Medical Service) in the Bundeswehr. What’s very interesting, however, is the

Niall Ferguson

nfergus

"Sometimes events are beyond a new president’s control. Sometimes they are unforced errors of his own making. But presidents don’t simply make history. Often, history comes at them fast."https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic

Katya Pavlushchenko

katlinegrey

Here is the thread about my visit to #RSCEnergia Museum with group of friends from #AlphaCentauri Channel. The Museum is located on RSC Energia territory in the city of Korolev,

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fidgetspinoza

The second body Patanjali calls pranamaya kosha -- energy body, electric body. The second consists of electric fields. That's what acupuncture is all about. This second body is more subtle

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“It must not be forgotten that the leading figures of the New Africa Sékou Touré, Kwame Nkrumah and some Mali and Congolese revolutionary democrats were…shaped and tempered politically and ideologically

Ben Norton

BenjaminNorton

The US/NATO are attempting a "color revolution" to overthrow the government in Belarus, the only remaining ex-Soviet state that still has socialistic policies and state control over the economyStratfor, "the

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is the 17th instalment of #deanehistory.Jan Masaryk was the son of the founding President of Czechoslovakia.Coincidentally, his civil service career really took off after his dad took office. He

Fabian Hinz

fab_hinz

With Iran-DPRK missile cooperation in the news, it might be a good idea to recount a pretty fascinating story. The IRGC's first Scud B shopping trip to North Korea. Thread.

Brigid O'Keeffe

BrigidinBK

This morning's accidental stumble on a fascinating history: I was searching Getty images for something else, but within the results I found an image whose descriptor in the database is

Dan Chorley

DanChorley

76 years ago today, @IXBSqn and 617 Squadron launched from @RAFLossiemouth, @Kinloss_Bks & Miltown airfields for Operation Catechism. This daring mission would mark the demise of the German battleship Tirpitz,

Ivan Nechepurenko

INechepurenko

I spoke to former high-ranking Belarusian prosecutors, investigators, judges, lawyers, ministers and other officials to describe the insidious machine of repression that sustains Lukashenko's rule in Belarus despite mass and

Amrita Bhinder

amritabhinder

Why Are India’s Farmers Protesting?Indian farmers have lately made international headlines. Rihanna, Susan Sarandon & Greta Thunberg have taken up their cause. Ozy, a glitzy Silicon Valley publication posed a

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(THREAD) It's time—the Keith Schiller thread. 1/ Cohen says Schiller—Trump's bodyguard—was Trump's point-man for his seediest activities. There's universal agreement Schiller lies for Trump. The good news for Trump: th

O.V.A.tion's™

Dre_Ova

10 Unlucky Inventors That Died By Their Own InventionsThread...1. Michael DacreDesigned the AVCEN Jetpod, a quiet Air-Taxi that could take off and land in short distances, The jet pod had

Mark Wilson

ProfMarkWilson

There's a lot going on in 2020 and we need to be reading broadly & thinking deeply about many problems. For those of you with an interest in the history

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – The Inexorable Marxist Push in America1. Americans thought the war with Communism was “over” after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Well, at least some did.

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