#USSR

1/The Vympel K-13 (aka R-3S or AA-2 Atoll), a Thread:It was a heat seeker missile, basically a reverse engineered AIM-9 Sidewinder. The AIM-9 came in possession of the USSR in
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Western Anglophone leftists--even self-proclaimed internationalists--really know so extremely little about China, huh? Or even English-language discourse about China. So here's the thing about western Anglophone leftists--there's a
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One of my favorite memories from childhood. My father was always a really good tennis player. Not professional level, but he held his own against some tough opponents, her were
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okay, here is my theory about the JFK assassination. It takes the bullet ballistics from Mortal Error by Bonar Menninger and the motive for the assassination from Libra by Don
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The main reason centrally planned economies tend to fail is that they reward failure.When countries like the USSR weren't satisfied with how a state enterprise was performing, they'd throw more
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"Americans are touchy about the memory of the Red Army playing the lead role in the destruction of the Wehrmacht. “What about Lend-Lease,” they say, “without our supplies, the Soviet
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why i - as a black communist - uphold the union of soviet socialist republics. a long and detailed thread on black communism, nations right to self determination, stalin, harry
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My parents are from Armenia, which was part of the former USSR. My grandfather, when registering for the military, changed his last name on the spot so as not to
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Photo of the members of the 2nd East Turkestan Republic, most of whom died in a famous Il-12 plane crush by Irkutsk. The crush to this day theorized by some
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About Communism & #farmprotests... Here's an old joke of the Soviet era: Someone in Moscow asked about how to deal with mice in the Kremlin?Pat came the reply from Gosplan: Put
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Characteristic of those steeped in the culture of the Lutyens Zone is to fasten themselves to whichever party and whoever leader is dominant at the period,discarding the old in the
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It's really amazing. Leila Khaled, who never killed anyone, is vilified to this day for hijacking planes. Meanwhile, if you're Zionists who plotted to hijack a Soviet airliner, you're "brave
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Rania, Max and Aaron all explore more subversive and a wider range of opinions & ideas than any of the people who smear them (like Molly, Robert, & every other
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I have alot of infomation on the united kingdom and everyone especially Americans and people from the UK needs to read this history is repeating it self. You need to
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Thread 1/ From what I've seen online lately, I need to debunk some BS about Authoritarianism & its four yucky "flavors"...Authoritarianism is the umbrella term that covers four types of
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It may mystify many people as to why Governments take so much interest in how people spend their leisure. The truth is, outside of schools and colleges, leisure is where
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