#USSR

Sergey Radchenko

DrRadchenko

Re-reading Evgenii Primakov's memoir, Meetings at Crossroads: https://www.litres.ru/evgeniy-primakov/vstrechi-na-perekrestkah-10328957/chitat-onlayn/. At one point he delves into a discussion of Western aid to the USSR (or, rather, its

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

More on "The Queen's Gambit."Besides the fact that it is:1) a typical American sports movie,2) a visual joy,3) a caricaturistic but true at heart portrayal of the USSR (our aesthetics

Juliet.

zinovievletter

Going through early 1990s TV listings to see how they compare to the present media environment. In Feb 1992, BBC2 broadcast a two-part documentary for the 100th anniversary of Tito's

Alexander

purplechrain

One would hope a Jewish journalist would know that it isn’t a *Soviet* hoax? The Protocols were first published c. 1903 (but similar antisemitic conspiracies circulated in Russia in the

Julia Ioffe

juliaioffe

Look, I'm from the former Soviet Union. One of the reasons Putin, an alumnus of the KGB, the agency that committed some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century,

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

So, this is a thread not about polling, but about experts, and being wrong. I have no idea if this guy is right, but I've seen this kind of expert

the go-betweens stan account

od_sobolev

Ilya @Iheartnoise started publishing his translation of alexander kushnir's book "100 tape albums of soviet rock"., a crucial document that was first published (in samizdat) in 1990. it outlined how

#JusticeForEishiaHudson

acabforbooty

Oh so apparently it’s #MennoniteHeritageWeek so lemme just hop on here to remind everyone that Mennonites also ran residential schools & are implicated in settler dispossession and violence with the

Rama

photos_floues

"Laïcité" in France is nothing more than a policy to manage churches, and not even the only one, at that.If tempted to make a statement, try to remplace "Laïcité" with

Sri Thiruvadanthai

teasri

I am reading Dennis Kux's second book: Disenchanted Allies--this one about US-Pakistan relationship. Finished the other one Estranged Democracies--which is about US-India. One thing is clear--US always had misgivings about

Abhishek

AbhishBanerj

Today I learnedCarl Sagan invited Apollo 8 astronauts to Cornell for dinnerThere he made students humiliate astronauts who had risked their lives to beat the USSR in the space raceLiberals

Max Ajl

maxajl

Much Western leftist scholarship on Third World development echoes the Eurocentric political downplaying of the national question by being unable to deal adequately with industrialization for reasons of national defense

No More Kings

EnemyOfTheCrown

This is a good read, but after reflection, I had a really scary thought. Being a Roman Catholic in the USA, I’ve been convinced for a while that we Christians

Ajit Datta

ajitdatta

On this day 45 years ago, the Emergency was declared. In light of the MoU that the Congress Party signed with the CCP, perhaps it's the right day to remember

Francesca Tacchi ★ Italian history & shitposting

jackdaw_writes

Okay, it's time for my #ItalianHistory thread! Today, I'm going to talk about an interesting piece of modern history. The Cold War in Italy, and specifically...☭ OPERAZIONE GLADIO ☭aka the

Pop Paleo

paleo_pop

If you're a paleofan of a certain age, this book may have rested on your shelf or beckoned from the library. This is a thread about its illustrator, George Solonevich.

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