John Paul Newman
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Historian of C19th/C20th Central and Southeastern Europe. Hanging around Dublin, Prague, Sofia, Zagreb.
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Our article 'Minorities and the Making of European Welfare' is published and available online - introduction to the special issue 'Ethnic and Social Minorities in European Welfare'
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Gonna tell my kids this is how the First World War started..
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‘Nuclear codes and plans to invade Iran? Down the hall on the left, room marked “gents”’
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Larry the Downing Street cat choosing violence this morning 😮
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there’s overcompensating and then there’s, er, this .. 👀
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'The year is 2024. London is entirely occupied by the Stamerites. Well not entirely! North Islington - a small village of indomitable Corbynistas - still holds out against the invaders.'
Tonight’s
@EveningStandard
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Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C
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Kids , the year 2022 saw what historians now agree is the worst Instagram post in human history: Gerhard Schröder’s wife miming a prayer for peace from her window view onto St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow …
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By popular demand - more from inside the Czechoslovak embassy, Berlin.
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‘Later that day I started to wonder..are all men like Prigozhin..making big spectacular gestures but then refusing to commit at the pivotal moment? Was I, like Putin, running scared from true love? Was Miranda my Lukashenka, trying to pick up the pieces of my bad choices in men?’
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How to recognise Prague’s social classes ? It’s simple: the city’s aristocracy live near green line metro stations, the middle classes favor the red line, and yellow is for proletarians..
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Sending love and strength to Prague friends this morning
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Winter ‘84 Olympics mascot ‘Vučko’ (‘Wolfie’) executing a perfect ski jump and then sliding through the streets of Sarajevo straight into a čevabdžinica (because he is Bosnian 😋 🇧🇦)
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Little known fact: North Macedonia’s national anthem is Wonderwall by Oasis.
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Ha! The BBC auto-subtitles changed ‘Sergei Lavrov’ into ‘sir gay lover of’ 👌😂
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A massive relief map of Montenegro, commissioned by the occupying Austro-Hungarian army in 1917. It is scaled precisely at 1:10,000 and features detailed models of towns and villages (also depicted at scale). Truly remarkable.
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It’s possible they thought they were attending Godard’s funeral ..
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General Boris Gromov crossing the ‘Friendship Bridge’
into Uzbekistan, 15 February, 1989 - the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan.
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‘Later that day I started to wonder, are we all just “former Soviet republics” still trying to get over that one bad breakup from long ago?’
We have new guidance on AP Stylebook Online, recommending that writers avoid the shorthand former Soviet republic(s) for any of the group of 14 countries besides Russia that existed within the former Soviet Union, unless clearly relevant to the story.
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To speak honestly I cannot find justification to stay on this platform with it's owner leering witlessly at people under genocidal attack.. I want to leave but I know if I do I would lose many valuable networks established on this site...anyone else feel the same?
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‘I am equally anti-Putin, anti-Azov, anti-Wagner and anti-NATO. I am working toward a just Peace for the peoples of Ukraine, Russia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. I am, in other words, a humanist internationalist. What are you?’
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Krtek and Ježek are safe and happy because they fly responsibly and never through fog 😃 🚁
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‘You know what they call a Quarterpounder in Pyongyang?’
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Lost track of the number of genocides being celebrated in this image..
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Burgasko beer and Tsatsa are my holiday sponsors ..
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Sean Bean returning to the bar later that night, tooled up..
Actor Sean Bean getting thrown out of a bar in town by bouncers for vaping 🚭
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Friends take a moment to read this powerful and poignant piece by Victoria Amelina.. I’ll be assigning this in my courses next semester. Frankly it belongs on any syllabus concerned with European history right now.
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'This is fine' : the Church of Christ's Resurrection in Podgorica features a fresco of Tito, Marx, and Engels burning in hellfire 😂
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Recently divorced Heinrich XIII is going through a bit of a mid-life crisis, the symptoms of which include wearing a lime green jacket and plastic sunglasses, drinking champagne in pub beer gardens for lunch, and trying to organise a far-right military coup.
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Happy birthday Václav Havel ! (waiting here at a bus stop in London, June 1968)
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Kharkiv National University building March 2022. The work of the Russian invaders, But sure warmongers on both sides and the real enemy is at home. Total and discrediting dereliction of duty and absence of solidarity/support from large parts of
@ucu
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A hideous scene from UCU Congress earlier today.
A Ukrainian victory would mean "subjugation and oppression" by "American imperialism".
"The main enemy is at home!"
The UCU backs the "Stop the War Coalition". It wants Ukraine to be left defenceless.
Foul.
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Švejk is 100 years old! Czech newspaper includes a map of his many peregrinations, including his favourite Prague haunts, his daft Budějovice ‘Anabasis’ , and his unfinished journey to the front (unfinished because he was captured by his own troops) ..
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'Habsburgers' - a burger-bar chain throughout CEE with burgers themed around royal dynasty ('Franz Josef Emperor-Sized Triple Decker' 'Franz Ferdinand Spicy Jalepeno with Princip Sour Sauce')
Looking for feedback and partners on this exciting business plan. DMs are open.
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It’s not a coup it’s a special political operation
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Honestly if this is not a perfect cover for a history of Czechoslovakia in the 60s then I don’t know …
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The very definition of a cursed image, from 1986: Maradona wearing a ‘No Drugs’ strip whilst Platini’s says ‘No Corruption’ 😬
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BBC Southeastern Europe desk is in decline. I mean at least in this 2013 graphic they knew where Romania was, if not what the national flag looked like...
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Not sure about this new season of Emily in Paris tbh ..
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Looks like a real tour-de-force - can't wait to read it.
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28 October 1939: students of Charles University Prague protesting the Nazi occupation of their country. An institution with a long and fine tradition of resilience and courage.
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His account of the conflict in Kosovo is complete and utter rubbish ..
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Tsatsa and birra is the proletarian caviar and champagne you know it I know it everyone knows it
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Interwar English-language historiography of Central Europe is something else .. 👀
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‘pro-Ukrainian propaganda’ inadvertently got Pellegrini and Fico elected is one of the weirdest and most wrong-headed takes I’ve seen come out of the Slovak elections. Even posited as a question rather than a full-blown argument it seems quite ridiculous and unserious to me.
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Czechoslovakia had it all: factories, beasties, and castles. Also fish.
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I'm in deep shock tonight. All love and solidarity to friends in Prague tonight - and especially those at Charles University, to the survivors of this unfathomable act of violence and to the families/loved ones of its victims.
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Šopska salata is Bulgarian, invented in 1950s to sell to Czechoslovak tourists visiting the Black Sea. The ingredients match the colours of the Bulgarian national flag.
No kidding this time. It’s true. 🥗 🇧🇬
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Easter! When the Lindt chocolate bunnies come to life
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Liz Truss is prime minister but *you* have still got imposter syndrome?
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I don’t get Chomsky’s/others argument that Russian invasion fears ‘over a century’ can rationalize its assault of Ukraine.. could easily be flipped - don’t then countries invaded occupied by Russia have invasion fears too? Could they not be assuaged by joining, e.g. NATO 1/2
THREAD: A year ago, I interviewed Professor Noam Chomsky about Russia, Ukraine and not only. He said I didn't let him talk and at some pointed left the interview. I finally got around to posting parts on interview here: (considering the limit, will do it in parts)
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The DUP have arrived to take their cabinet posts...
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More minimalist/modernist tourism posters from interwar Yugoslavia:
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Super weird how Daniel Craig has both a license to kill and a license to be the loans manager at Barclays Bank telling me he’s very sorry but my application for an overdraft extension has been rejected back when I was a graduate student.
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God help you if you come out onto the streets and protest waving an EU flag instead of one with a hammer and sickle and on it. You will receive practically no support or solidarity from western leftists.
The law being protested in Georgia is that any NGO with 20% or more of its funding coming from a foreign source must…declare it.
That strikes me as perfectly sensible. Regardless of whatever else is happening.
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Now the semester is done, I’m Putting out the recorded/digital parts of my ‘Central and Eastern Europe under Communism’ course in case anyone is interested (and feedback is welcome !😊) via
@YouTube
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this beauty is going straight into my teaching materials on the Trianon complex 👌😂
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The spiritual sequel to ‘NYU student hated exchange-year in Florence’ article that nobody asked for and nobody wanted ..
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Outstanding. Estimated 100,000 Georgians on the street protesting the passing of the law but a UK leftist find it perfectly sensible so what the hell are they all complaining about ??
The law being protested in Georgia is that any NGO with 20% or more of its funding coming from a foreign source must…declare it.
That strikes me as perfectly sensible. Regardless of whatever else is happening.
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Macedonian girl did it first.
Activist Jasmina Golubovska, 2015.
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definitive proof that vaccines work
The Spanish sensation has done it 🇪🇸
@carlosalcaraz
triumphs over Novak Djokovic, 1-6, 7-6(6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in an all-time classic
#Wimbledon
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Branch manager of Barclays Bank in Horsham on a corporate weekend in London shakes hands with jocular but vaguely menacing bouncer before going in to Soho strip bar.
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Gender Studies is not a danger to anyone - yet this is not the first time we’ve been told that the discipline is ‘irrelevant’, ‘arcane’, ‘ideological’, ‘of no public interest’ We know where this leads: in Hungary an entire academic field ‘murdered’...
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Colleagues, here's my unpopular opinion on events in US:
It is actually possible to explain and understand the violence on Capitol Hill without at all bringing up 'the Balkans' or 'ex-Yugoslavia'. Just, try it.
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Sinead O'Connor won the Classic Irish Album and used her speech to tell refugees in Ireland they were very welcome, that she loved them very much and that she wished them happiness.
Morrissey appeared on a US Talk Show wearing a pin of the fascist 'For Britain' party. So...
Morrissey rips "insulting" Sinead O'Connor tributes from members of the music industry and media: "You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you."
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Irish Independent piece in full for those interested ..
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Actual age of Serbia vs. the age Elizabeth Olsen thinks it is..
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his passing will be a huge loss for the crank left - there are many people who share his tunnel-vision POV on war crimes and atrocities (that is, they don't exist unless they are perpetuated by the West and its allies) -but none with the veneer of academic credibility.. 1/2
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English boy meets and falls in love with a Balkan girl. This is a picture of their dads meeting for the first time at the wedding.
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NO NO NO : same arguments deployed in support of arms embargo during war in Bosnia, results would be similarly catastrophic: surrendering the military advantage to an already far better equipped aggressor and abandoning to die a people who are fighting for their lives.
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