#USSR

Georgy

oktyabrvperedi

Women’s rights in the USSR, a thread. Disclaimer: This post doesn’t aim to obscure the sexism that women faced in the Soviet Union and still face in Post-Soviet countries. My

Lucio Martelli

LucioMM1

I don't fear China as much as most fellow freedom lovers do. Not because they aren't enemies of freedom (they are). But1) they are far less dangerous than Nazi/fascism and

Philippe Auclair

PhilippeAuclair

I've loved 'The Queen's Gambit' for many reasons, one of which - the most important to me - being that it 'got' the romance of the Soviet game just right

Khalifa Queen

KhalifaJune

was gonna write a single tweet, but it turned into a thread so:Lenin genuinely believed in what he wrote in State and Rev, and fully intended to implement it. The

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

This isn’t actually true, it fell well within the range of speeds of novel power second wave industrializers. What’s more, what is normally called industrialization in the Ussr is really

✪SovietSpaceDog✪

palante_palante

Reasons why the capitalist world wants to keep you from reading Stalin:1) The world communist movement was at its most united during the Stalin era.2) He was a major theorist

Ⓐll your favorite Starfleet officers are communist

Psybernetic

Disclaimer: states are badAs I understand, the basic structure of the USSR was a solid basis for a government. It wasn't perfect, but no human project is. The biggest flaw

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1) This is a pretty good article, but I disagree with this: “There is, however, a radical difference between this Cold War and the one that developed during the second

Boris Ryvkin

BRyvkin

During the Cold War, the USSR borrowed heavily from US led financial institutions and imported more than 1/3 of its grain, including from the US, despite running one of the

Despoiler of Hope ㊙️

DespoilerofH

I've been researching (and documenting) ex-USSR #WW2 war heritage for years now and it's safe to say that there's a good percentage of it that's partly (in some cases even

Frances Leader

2013Boodicca

What does #totalitarianism really look like?Most people will think of the USSR, Nazi Germany or North Korea. The kind of brutal regimes that inspired George Orwell's ‘1984’. But another novel,

鍾翔宇 Xiangyu

notXiangyu

1. It's remarkable how effectively the capitalists are able to so completely distort history that it ends up entirely inverted. For instance, in the widespread and ludicrous myth that Poland

Der Katsfoter, live and not a cat

derkatsfoter

I can find no evidence to support the claim that Stalin said all classes were extinguished in the USSR. In an interview in Pravda he distinguished national "socialism" from Marxism-Leninism

Notes from Georgia/South Caucasus (Hälbig, Ralph)

SouthCaucasus

1/ Zaal Andronikashvili @Zaaliko: "I do not know if anyone wrote anything about the wild architecture of the 90s (probably I have not met and if you know, "link me",

Dr. Asatar Bair

asatarbair

By you assertion that 'people had to wait 30 years to get an apartment,' you conflate two *very* different things: having a place to live (which was established as a

Garry Kasparov

Kasparov63

If you want to use state power to control private companies because you don't like the decisions they make, *you* are the greater danger to a free society. Regulation is

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