#USSR

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Russian_Starr

Happy Juneteenth! This a perfect day to talk about how black people have always fought for freedom and how that fight often led us to seek it beyond U.S. borders.

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

Tom Fowdy

Tom_Fowdy

Observe: China's tactic of making timely "concessions" towards various western powers in order to prevent them from feasibly uniting against it is not a sign of weakness, but an age

YellowLantern19ѣ

YellowLantern19

Hmm with the break up of the USSR approaching its 30th anniversary, I should probably make another historical thread on the what was the long term & short term reasons

Superpower Football

SuperpowerFb

Did you know the great Lev Yashin played against Mohun Bagan? - Throughout its long & storied history, Mohun Bagan has played against many foreign teams. It can be argued

Laura Larmo

lauralarmo

Magnum as USSR—the article is abt USSR fall, but many parts are adaptable: "[I]n times of severe crisis, institutional elites face a decision point. Do they cling to the system

🇷🇺 Энни лучшая девушка

ChechenAni

Alright, figured I might as well do a thread on the cowboys that came to Central Asia.When the USSR collapsed, the newly independent countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia all

Ⓥ NAP Paul Ⓐ

PaulTheMartian

Sanford Academic and Hoover Institute Research fellow Antony Sutton details the assistance Hitler received from international bankers and western corporations.Full video of his insightful interview: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sah_Xni-gtg

gaming disorder pawg

roun_sa_ville

Apropos of nothing, the Soviet Union went from essentially a feudal state to the most progressive country in the world for women in a matter of less than a year.

Natalia Antonova

NataliaAntonova

I come from a long line of killers on my mom's side - Cossacks, military men - and don't like the romanticizing of violent repressions, "Lenin wuz right," "Stalin was

John Preston

Professor_John

Imagine it is 1982 and we are at war with the USSR. If you didn't follow the advice of "Protect and Survive" and 'stay at home' you would be labelled

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

On this night 30 years ago, Lithuania (which had declared independence 10 months earlier) faced its first test as a nation reaffirming its independence. The key events of the night

Georgy

oktyabrvperedi

The Soviet Educational System, a thread The literacy rate in the Russian Empire was extremely low (of only 28,4% according to the 1897 census).After the Bolshevik revolution, during the 8th Party

combat empire, combat racism

authcom19

First: I want to establish that the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a CIA front group that has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with promoting

Linecook

LLinecook

If the moon landing was fake, why didn't the USSR say so?I'm agnostic about the moon landing. I don't think it was *definitely* fake, but it's a proposition I take

Marxist Twink

Leninisttwink

Black migration to the USSR: A thread Disclaimer: The experiences of some Black people don’t always account for all Black people, we all have diverse experiences that are unique and

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