#Soviet

Av*shai אֲבִישַׁי أَبِيشَي

YeOldeAvishai

Perhaps the safest place for a European Jew to have been living in during WWII was, ironically enough, under Axis-aligned powers.While all of Hitler's allies enjoyed their share of antisemitic

Andrew Higgins

A_J_Higgins

Reports are emerging that yesterday’s tragedy in Beirut was the result of the explosion of a store of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate (AN). How did we end up with

Anarcartoonist #BlackLivesMatter

DoneFlowar

Lenin’s endearing flaw:Though I have yet to read it, Vladimir Lenin states in his book “What Is To Be Done” that only a disciplined party of professional vanguard revolutionaries can

Peter Mason

_petermason

A thread on apologies, antisemitism, education and the EHRC:This morning, @VictoriaLIVE asked @NazShahBfd if Jeremy Corbyn had been on the course the Labour Party have been claiming is ‘their’ education

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dqdelite

“Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, creator of great power, and destroyer of tens of millions of lives …” Watch the latest episode with historian Stephen Kotkin, as he examines the political

Dr Thomas Clements

Thomas_Clements

I bought a bag o' stamps that feature prehistoric beasts (mainly very cursed dinosaurs) from postal systems all around the world and I've picked the best ones to help put

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

Alexander Wendt is one of the founders of the Constructivist school of international relations (IR) theory (and a huge influence on my own work). His 1992 “Anarchy Is What States

Ash Milton

miltonwrites

Thought I would do a thread on this. So here we go: China, Carroll Quigley, and the civilization of capital.https://twitter.com/StephenPiment/status/1264284185138614273 The great American historian Carroll Quigley wrote a book called

Joe Pompliano

JoePompliano

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by the UK & is being forced to give up the $3 billion club.But the real story is WILD — it includes privatization,

Adam

adancabdulle

In the 1970s, Mogadishu was one of the worst postings for Western diplomats. The American embassy and residence of the ambassador faced 24-hour surveillance & continuous bugging carried out by

Daniel Warren

danielwarren86

The MCU is entirely about dads. A thread, because I can't sleep. Yes, really. 1/23IRON MAN- How do I live up to my dad? My surrogate dad's evil, so I

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schaudenfraud

This is a thread about flags I have previously proclaimed there were a cluster of GOOD FLAGS for US states bordering Mexicohttps://twitter.com/schaudenfraud/status/1274976762305413120 I have also proclaimed various other

Socially Distant (before it was cool)

RZMike95

Some thought I had this morning. I went to a shitty little state college from 76-80. I was a business major because what else was I going to be. The

Polla Garmiany ☀️

PollaGarmiany

Ismail Abulfeda, known as Abulfeda, was a Kurdish 13th/14th-century chronicler, geographer, commander, and Emir of Hama. He wrote "The Concise History of Humanity" which was translated early on into Latin,

Jay Murdock

risemeccanica

A few days ago, a report popped into my feed, that seems both troubling and plausible. So much is the case that I think it's worth a bit of a

Amaan

amaanbali

An important thread on Pakistan’s policy of ‘Bleed India with a thousand cuts’ and what we should do to not fall prey to it. I will break it down in