#USSR

Martin D. Brown

MDRBrown

"Dans ce volet : pendant des siècles, les Allemands de la région des Sudètes ont cohabité pacifiquement avec leurs voisins tchèques, jusqu’à l’entre-deux-guerres et la création de la Tchécoslovaquie.https://www.arte.tv/fr/v

Colin McAuliffe

ColinJMcAuliffe

I genuinely think leftists should read hayek. He was mostly a freak with conservative fever swamp views about politics but his ideas about tacit/dispersed knowledge are v important imo. He

tettsui 🥊

NotTettsui

Wrote this a couple weeks ago but just linked a text file prolly 5 of you read. Anyway, Fuck Economics, a thread: Fuck economics. Fuck communism, fuck capitalism, fuck your

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

Kendzior: "Did the US win the Cold War?"Snyder: "Oligarchy won the Cold War. Americans did not win the Cold War. The post-Soviet oligarchy won the break-up of the USSR, and

disney was a mistake

aiukliAfrika

"DPRK starves their people" is a very popular meme among Western imperialists, but far too often when pressed on their understanding of the situation of food security in DPRK, it

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

OK, the results are in, so here it is, one of the stories of my Soviet life: how I got Karened by my art teacher in 7th grade.A fair warning:

Eric July

EricDJuly

Fascism being on the opposite end of socialism is ahistorical considering Fascism (according to its godfathers) was specifically built to be anti-individual and pro-collectivist.. which virtually every socialist would agree

Aunindyo Chakravarty

AunindyoC

A friend told me today that I am a leftist because I was born a Brahmin. Her argument appeared to me to be an oversimplification, but I thought I should

Rafael Higonnet-Faithfull

RafFaithfull

Short thread:In this interview Liam Bright favoringly cites the work of Otto Neurath as the beneficial fruit bore by the Vienna Circle.I think that this is an interesting window onto

lornemorrow

lornemorrow

I was born the same year as NASA & I was a space-nut. I followed the Mercury, Gemini & Apollo programs. I watched launches on a black & white TV.

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

the reason why "tanks/carriers are dead" takes keep being written is the underlying reality that "dead" here means "highly vulnerable in a conflict with high stakes" and thinking about the

Joshua Stein, philosophy, ethics, politics

thephilosotroll

Referring to this as a "crisis for democracy" isn't a stretch. The GOP already has disproportionate advantages in the electoral college, relative to share of the popular vote, and is

EllenRipley

HelenRipley13

Women during and after the war. Long thread. (Sorry for my broken English) I’ve chosed this topic, because I think that it’s quite relate to the modern reality we are

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This the 25th instalment of #deanehistory. We turn to the chessboard today. It works for Netflix; why not #deanehistory?(There will definitely be no chess moves in this thread, and definitely

Rich Puchalsky Ⓐ

RichPuchalsky

This thread from yesterday was about, among other things, the US culture war. I'll add to it: not only is the culture war pursued by both sides, it forecloses progress

swarnim bharat

a_sandhan

Everyone is surprised how this country survived last 70 yrsMajority of editors n intellectuals predicted Balkanization of India after collapse of USSRBharatvarasha is till intact n progressing wellFew may know

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