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writing about Soviet history at https://t.co/ayItpd4Pqi

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after history 👤@After__History·
While its ironic that the writer who popularized the claim of Stalin having a relationship with a teenage girl is in the Epstein logs, that is really not a good historical argument itself, especially since other historians have made the same claim both before and after him. It’s been mentioned by reputable Stalin biographers like Suny and Kotkin. Still, the evidence is quite thin and I’m inclined to agree with Charters Wynn who is sceptical of the claim.
Bolshevik Enthusiast@LeBolshevikman

The source for that Stalin story is some guy named Sebag Montefiore, his name is found multiple time in the Epstein flight logs and he was close friends with him lol

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Arsov oreol@notbourgeois·
About half-way done and I must say that it's rejection of the "dogmatic lunatic" trope is quite satisfying. It actually elaborates the logic, both of Enver Hoxha and the time he lived in, and shows how his pursuit of modernisation at all costs dominated his decision-making.
Arsov oreol@notbourgeois

Will be reading this new book shortly!!

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after history 👤@After__History·
NEW ARTICLE: Trotsky described Stalinism as a Thermidor, yet historians Fitzpatrick and van Ree are right to point out that Stalin’s Terror was not Bonapartist consolidation, but a repeat of Jacobin terror. In many ways, the Stalinists were more Jacobin than the Jacobins. Link in reply
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It's -relatively- simple, he was perfectly ruthless and cunning in terms of intra-CPSU politics (why would he be Andropov's protégé if not?), yet utterly inexperienced and clueless in matters of practical and methodical governance
yoshimi red@nise_yoshimi

gorbachev is often depicted even by communists as this weak-willed liberal. Really he was as ruthless as any soviet politician. he was just working in service to a different ideological vision. but he was a True Believer and he was pulling Xi Jinping moves for it

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after history 👤@After__History·
“The Valaam Myth and Fate of Leningrad’s Disabled Veterans” by Robert Dale
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Historian Robert Dale researched the claim that the Soviets carried out mass deportations of disabled veterans in 1947 and concluded that there was no evidence to suggest a targeted campaign of this nature ever occurred. One of many popular Soviet history myths accepted as fact because people tend to have a very low threshold of evidence when it comes to believing things about the USSR that validate their pre-existing biases. Of course, the myth reflected real anxieties and disappointment at the social stigma and low-quality of institutional support the USSR provided its disabled veterans. But it's really not demonstrative of a uniquely communist authoritarianism/incompetence given that the post-war reintegration of the disabled proved to be a massive failure across the board, generally. The Soviets uneven universal pension structure was still superior to the paltry and fragmented support the US provided its disabled citizens. Nevermind the fact that by the 1930s over 30 U.S states had active compulsory sterilization laws targeting disabled people. It’s worth noting that the Soviets never embraced this kind of genocidal-eugenic attitude towards the disabled
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Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱@CathyYoung63

After 1945, disabled Soviet veterans, especially amputees, were deported from large cities to distant regions because Stalin thought they made victory look bad. You're welcome, dumbass.

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after history 👤@After__History·
The Israelis are inflicting this on Palestinian children en masse every day through their savage prison system. It’s actually fine to forget a marginal historical figure like Louis XVII, because there are far more pressing and important matters to concern yourself with
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James II did nothing wrong@James_II_1688

never forget what the jacobins did to Louis XVII, he was just a child when they tortured him, he was only 10 when he died, and keep in mind this is just what wikipidia is willing to have up, imagine how much worse the full truth is.

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without guarantees@tongzhi_mate·
I’ve kinda always thought the ussr is most relevant insofar as it shows an alternative vision of what decolonization could’ve looked like w broader social integration, instead of the nationalisthitler nightmares British and French colonies became
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This reactionary critique of the USSR as a “DEI Empire” that cared too much about its minorities is still a major improvement over the generic pop history view of the Soviet Union as the Russian Empire 2.0, because it at least correctly recognizes it as a Third Worldist project that aggressively pursued mass equity polices long before the West

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after history 👤@After__History·
This reactionary critique of the USSR as a “DEI Empire” that cared too much about its minorities is still a major improvement over the generic pop history view of the Soviet Union as the Russian Empire 2.0, because it at least correctly recognizes it as a Third Worldist project that aggressively pursued mass equity polices long before the West
captive dreamer@captive_dreamer

Stalin was one of the greatest thieves the world has ever seen. His incompetent affirmative action empire raided the most technologically and culturally advanced places in Europe, looted everything they could and then let it rot in fields in the Donbass. Incalculable damage.

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Salin@nukedwest·
everyone is doing the "Israel is actually the most succesful decolonial movement" but for the US
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@donaldp1917 “Stalin sanitized to be sold to liberals” is a really good way of putting it.
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donaldparkinson🇵🇸@donaldp1917·
@After__History Glad you brought up Priestland's work, who definitely cuts against the Losurdo reading of Stalin (which I always saw as a Stalin sanitized to be sold to liberals basically)
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NEW ARTICLE: In his book on Stalin, Domenico Losurdo portrays the Soviet leader as a pragmatic reformer who rejects the "messianic" tendencies of his Marxist predecessors. By expunging the radical and apocalyptic dimensions of Stalin's thought, he effectively de-Stalinizes Stalin and creates a distorted version of the Soviet leader who is more compatible with his pro-CCP, market-based vision of socialism. Link in reply
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Kev@biff_kev·
@After__History This was a really enjoyable read, especially the part on collectivization policies exemplifying Stalins deeply devoted ideological commitment to socialism
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Joshua@WxPolitics15·
We gotta destroy this ridiculous mythology of the American revolution. The new histories of the revolution make it clear that it was not the anti-elite populist revolt that a certain strand of historiography made it out to be
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_

AOC: “America was founded in revolt of British aristocracy. The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. It’s actually the most American thing in the world for us to be fighting for the working class. It’s actually patently un-American to transform our country into a place of kings and landed gentry”

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Marta Havryshko@HavryshkoMarta·
Today, on May 9, Kyiv residents come to the Eternal Flame memorial to honor those who died in the Second World War. Some carry portraits of fathers and grandfathers who never returned from the war. Despite the ongoing rewriting of history and memory manipulations, May 9 remains a deeply symbolic date for many Ukrainians — a reminder of the immense human price the Soviet Union paid in the war against Nazism.
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Bryan Gigantino@bryan_gigantino·
Tbilisi today at the monument of Meliton Kantaria - the Soviet Georgian Red Army soldier who helped raise the USSR’s flag over the Reichstag in Berlin after Nazi Germany’s surrender in 1945.
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