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📚 Book Nerd for @Waterstones . History MA from King’s College🎓. E Europe and Russia watcher. From 🇱🇹 Opinions my own, obviously 🤷🏼♂️
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One of the biggest history releases of the year is finally in shops! 1️⃣8️⃣
@history_alice
book, “Eighteen”, which tells the story of 18 famous people at 18 years of age - individuals which changed the course of British history forever.
@panmacmillan
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@francska1
When you read this and listen to Kremlin state media you realise why the Russian soldiers do what they do.
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@UN
@UnitedNationsRU
In the history of badly timed scheduled tweets this is one of the worst.
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Hello All!
As some of you might know I am the buyer for the largest bookstore in the country and a Russia/Eastern Europe watcher. Sitting on the convergence of these two interests of mine, I feel it would be a good idea to share a few books about the situation in 🇺🇦 🇷🇺
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@wartranslated
Ukrainian Tractors vs Russian tanks
Russia gets it’s first confirmed kill
Ukraine still ahead 123 to 1.
Fighting continues.
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@SamRamani2
This is from Herbert Block, a famous American Cartoonist, likely published in 1939-1940 and comments on the Winter War or specifically Stalin’s demands from Finland right before the beginning of hostilities.
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@DefenceU
Absolutely nothing is happening.
Also
Everything is happening all at once.
Who knows 🤷🏼♂️
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@PolitlcsUK
@SkyNews
Elect them now.
For real though, it’s very unlikely but I do think our politicians should be arguing for some kind of reduction of the price we pay to watch all these games. It’s a huge part of national culture and the prices keep some people out.
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@metpoliceuk
We’ve all watched enough Prison Break stuff to know if you don’t have him by now he’s in France somewhere chilling on the beach
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@ChefReactions
There’s still 10 days left but i’m gonna go out on a limb and say this is the worst culinary thing I’ve seen in 2023
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@VALORANT
13 mins LOL
Summary:
Split and Breeze are rotating out - Haven is coming back.
Neon and Iso getting small buffs.
Outlaw is coming in a popular bundle soon.
They’re working on replays but don’t expect it any time soon.
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Ukraine Books. FICTION 🇺🇦
Hello all!
With the popularity of my previous thread on Ukraine which was all non-fiction and history I have decided to write a thread on fiction. These are either written by Ukrainians, about Ukrainians or set on the territory of Ukraine.
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@Faazxl
@ManUtd
@masongreenwood
@branwilliams
Maybe you wanna remember him for his incredible first breakout season? 🤔
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@Mylovanov
I’m just saying the same. Crimea annexation got a lot of people on his side in Russia. He was styled by his propagandons as the “Tsar, collector of lands and re-establisher of Empire”.
Now he’s losing lands, that prestige clock will be ticking.
Mind you, don’t expect an
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@StretfordPaddck
imo this is just Erik showing Sanch up: “look dawg you can stay on your ps5 with the ego - I’m even giving the forgotten guy some minutes”
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@wartranslated
The idea of a sovereign nation deciding what it wants for itself instead of being told to act by a hegemon is so alien to him.
KGB kid through and through.
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@susie_dent
Susie had this one in the drafts for a long time and it finally sees the light of day
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@maxseddon
Nuremberg Rally vibes. For now people are getting bussed in. After some time with western media black out more and more people will go willingly. Only darker times ahead.
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@FIBAWC
@ltu_basketball
@basketbols
Cepelinai, Pelmeni, a little Borscht, lots of potatoes and some buckwheat.
Superfood to grow tall basketball players
🇱🇹 🤝🏼 🇱🇻
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@PicturesFoIder
40 years later you go over a speedbump too quick and your Tesla replaces you
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@DefenceU
Russian military telegram channels are constipated with fear for weeks now.
Soon we will see a combined diarrhoea volcano erupt. 🌋
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@maxseddon
Lightning quick like the Russian withdrawing maneuvres when Ukrainians kicked their ass near Kyiv
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@Gerashchenko_en
It’s an end to Russia’s long term future in Crimea.
After all this since 2014 they just… gave up?
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@historyinmemes
Lesson: between the man you are and the man you want to be is hard work, education, a little bit of luck and some very stupid enemies.
You have to make the first step and never stop waking forward.
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@Tendar
“The main strike hasn't arrived, yet. It can arrive anywhere and anytime at the front”
Must be really scary to read when you’re sitting in a copemobile, drinking vodka and shitting pants
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@nocontextfm1
When I shout “praise” to team but opponent scores a goal before that saves and so team gets praised right after the goal highlight lmao
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One of the best books I’ve read in the last few years is ‘Red Famine’ by the brilliant
@anneapplebaum
. It tells of Soviet-enforced collectivisation, famine and about the suppression of memory. Now more than ever, it shows how the present is shaped by the past. Will make you cry
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@SamRamani2
We converted to Christianity in 1387 🇱🇹 ✝️
Francis better fix up or we’ll convert Rome to Baltic Paganism 🌞
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Plugging a rather large gap in the market, “Austria: Behind the Mask. Politics of a Nation since 1945” by Paul Lendvai (released last week) is a welcome fresh biography of what was long considered a European post-war success story. Is it still? 🇦🇹
Publishers, we need more
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@maxseddon
Sanctions work. They’re squealing.
They wanted Soviet Union back. Let’s help them on their way.
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Truss goes to Balmoral - Queen dies.
Truss goes to Washington - Kissinger dies.
Beautiful snowy Moscow for Liz anyone?
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It’s not a blockade of
#Kaliningrad
it’s a special transportation denying operation.
#Lithuania
#Russia
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@IAPonomarenko
Oh look people from Western countries telling Eastern Europeans to stand down again 🤡
Lithuania stands firm against an autocratic bully which has shown everyone it's not capable of conversation. West should support LTU not tell us to 'stand down'
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@DanLamothe
@JuliaDavisNews
ah yes, one of the greatest Russian allies against invaders this time working... against Russian invaders
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Firstly, Ukraine. 🇺🇦
Probably the most commonly found book in British bookshops is ‘The Gates of Europe’ by
@SPlokhy
who is one of the most popular Ukraine scholars in the West, a professor at Harvard and director of Harvard Ukraine Inst. You’ll see his books come up again
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@wartranslated
"only gonna get worse from here"
yep
New Year's fireworks over the Kremlin might have a new meaning
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Coming to bookshops soon, “AUTOCRACY, INC” by historian and commentator
@anneapplebaum
.
It tells the story of the 21st century autocratic states, specifically how they oppose Democracies around the world via commercial, political, propagandist and kleptocratic means.
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@IlvesToomas
Anyone who experienced Russian world wants nothing to do with it.
It’s not a coincidence.
Baltic States and Eastern Europe Stands with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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@maxseddon
@wwwagentsmedia
He’s basically stuck together by tape and plastic. Looks okay on outside, barely alive inside.
Imagine what all the stress is doing to the man. Would be a shame if there was a heart attack wouldn’t it 😬
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@AlternativeMUFC
The little Sir Bobby compilation before Dalot’s goal. Perfect tribute. Goosebumps
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@reshetz
It’s like when that kid that bullied the entire class trips over his own bag and faceplants the whiteboard
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@francis_scarr
Nah there still isn’t a proper translation for muzhik. A man is just not the one. For a non Russian speaker - yeah it makes sense but it just doesn’t do the meaning justice. There is a certain undertone to muzhik
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@Azovsouth
Putin was helicoptering outta Kremlin a few hours ago. What are the chances HUR found him in Chkalovsky?
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@VALORANT
Cypher’s voiceline “I am Prometheus and you are just a God.”
Goosebumps every time. Keep on developing great character lore.
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@francska1
Lol bet she won’t abandon all the luxury her daddy has been able to afford her in Paris
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@TerribleMaps
are now in book form and I must say it’s a perfect geeky present 🎁 📖
@HarperCollinsUK
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@KangaRogue
@ValorLeaks
as an omen main all I want is to go back and get the Octopus gun buddy that changed colour on Omen contract ghost skin
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@maxseddon
So if agreement is reached we all just forget any mass murder and war crimes happened? What about Crimea and LPR/DPR
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@Mylovanov
He will. Putin being alive or dead. Crimea will be Ukrainian. It might take years or even decades. But it will happen
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Now in shops, a geopolitically leaning (how else 🤷🏼♂️) biography of Field Marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim who was one of the most acclaimed and hated Finns of the 20th century from one of Finland’s greatest living historians Henrik Meinander.
Published by the brilliant
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I’d say the most impressive and essential (also very recent) book on current Russia is ‘Putin’s People’ by
@CatherineBelton
. In it you will learn about how the siloviki empire was built and consolidated and it’s a must of a manual to the current Russian state. 11/10
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Excited to get my hands on “Memory Makers” from
@DrJadeMcGlynn
, a research fellow at
@warstudies
.
The book is a timely look at why the Russian state apparatus backs Putin’s senseless war on Ukraine and how the history is abused as a tool to legitimate Russia’s slide into
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@uamemesforces
We’ve suffered under their occupation for long enough and nobody would help our fight for freedom in 1939. We know how that feels and we will fight for and with
#Ukraine
until they are free. 🇱🇹🇺🇦
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All the 2023 reading!
Only 43 this year as I tried to be mindful with it and didn't set any targets. I normally try to get to 52 but it leads to frantic reading in December to catch up and I'm really not about chasing numbers anymore.
Anyway. BOTY 2024 selections 👇 let's go
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Out in UK next week "Sky Above Kharkiv" by celebrated Ukrainian author, poet and activist
@serhiy_zhadan
.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance workers and send messages of courage to his
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@maxseddon
Putin taking on a TV actor was a bad idea lol here’s someone who knows how to capture audiences, make good impressions, take good camera shots and say the right lines.
Top work from Zelensky team again.
#SlavaUkraini
💙💛
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One of my most awaited proofs is here!
“The Forest Brotherhood” by
@DanKaszeta
is untold and mostly unknown in the west story of heroic battles for freedom in the Baltic States.
Stuck between the crushing might of the totalitarian Soviet Union and the Hitler’s Nazi Germany the
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@Maks_NAFO_FELLA
It could be that. Or it could be a counteroffensive. Or it could be a massive Crimea missile attack. Or maybe the bridge finally? Or maybe some combination of all of these?!?!
Oh dear. They’ll have to guess.
No panic whatsoever.
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@PolitlcsUK
@guardian
What a campaign!
Prime Minister it’s only the second day!
Make the meme…
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Going to be lots of
#Moldova
in the news soon because of the events in
#Transnistria
. You wonder if there are any books on it?
I gotchu…
Probably the highest profile history book we’ve got atm is
@UCLSSEES
own Rebecca Haynes’ history of the country.
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Miller - the time that Congress is taking is being counted in bodies not days. Certainly the loss of support from the West means Ukrainians might not be able to defend themselves as effectively. But, they won’t stop fighting -will just have to fight with less.
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@erikkannike
Once again the EU and UN are dithering. A disaster is their only call to action. We must do something before it is too late.
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@LinasKojala
It was also the best of the evening. Song fully stood up to being sung live which most songs do not.
Top 3 for sure.
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