Soviet Union
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Thread on NKVD covert operations against Ukrainian nationalists, 1944-1953 https://t.co/DlMQqcgmvz
Thread w/excerpts from Zubok's "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union". The author believe's the USSR's dissolution was not inevitable, & US pressure had little to do with it. Rer...
Asharshylyk, Holodomor in Kazakhstan The dates of the manmade famine in Kazakhstan perpetrated by Moscow depend on the source. Some say 1931-1933, aligning with the Holodomor in U...
Now we associate Gorbachev with Perestroika, which in its turn is interpreted as nice Gorbachev being nice. In reality, in the beginning of his rule Gorbachev continued Andropov's...
1/9 I've been arguing for well over a decade that the reason most economists thought that China's GDP would overtake that of the US in the next decade or two was because they misun...
Thread with excerpts from “The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939” by Terry Martin https://t.co/9x4VsNV1Vt
Die Fürstenstadt There was a Soviet joke: - What is long, green and smells with sausage? - Moscow-Tver train Why? Well, under the USSR provincials had to go shopping to Moscow....
SOVIET ASIA Before we can talk about the Architecture of the Republic and literal Buildings of the Soviet Asian Republics, we must discuss their status within the Union and why th...
I was curious about the architectural history of #AzovStal, so I pulled out this 1935 Soviet publication on industrial building. Azovstal (right) was begun around 1930, @ the end o...
Friends, a May 9 thread about the scale of Soviet losses in World War Two. You cannot understand why Victory Day is the most significant secular holiday in Russia without getting...
An enduring myth about the Soviet Union is that its economy collapsed under the burden of its military spending. This story allows America to congratulate itself on "winning" the C...
Did you know that Stalin is directly responsible for the death of over 3 million Jews? Or that he was planning to kill off the rest of Soviet Jewry but was prevented by his prematu...
