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May 18 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
The NKVD operation was led by Bogdan Kobulov, one of Beria's nastiest henchmen. After reporting to Beria the deportation was complete he was told a large number were still in their villages around the Azov Sea. Fearing Beria's wrath, he panicked and told his men that... 🧵
if any were left alive within two hours 'heads will roll'. The remaining Tartars, men women and children, were loaded onto a barge which was then towed to the deepest part of the Azov Sea and sunk. Those that didn't drown and tried to swim were machine gunned. Lunar Sonata by Crimean Tatar artist, Rustem Eminov, born in
Kobulov, who had also had a hand in the #Katyn murders, eventually got what he deserved. When, after Stalin's death, Beria fell and was shot as a British spy (Moscow lies go way back), Korbulov got his '9 grams' too. Never was a bullet in the back of the head more deserved.

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May 17
And CofE isn’t racist anyway. Individual racism yes, just like bullying (which seems far more common) but ‘institutional’? No.
People need to look past emotions to the stats.
The % of BAME ordinands matches U.K. BAME %. Bishops don’t but there’s a reason... 🧵
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It’s quite simple. Say you become a bishop after c30 years. Ordained at c25 yrs old means born 55 years ago c.1967. Left school late 80s
Point 1. What % of immigrants were there in UK in the 60s/80s? NOWHERE NEAR the % today = the pool was smaller.
Point 2: Assuming that these future non-white bishops arrived as kids with immigrant families or were born here how many parents coming to work to build a new life would have supported their children becoming low paid CofE priests rather than getting a good job? Answer: VERY FEW
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Apr 4
Once in an isolated town in N Siberia I met an old former zek (gulag inmate). I was introduced as British, whereupon he said how nice it was to finally meet a Brit - because he had been sentenced to 10 years in the mines for being a British spy.
🇷🇺 has long held weird paranoia about Britain. In 1927, after HMG expelled Sov diplomats for spying their charge d’affaires stopped to meet Warsaw Sov Ambassador. A monarchist assassin shot Ambassador. In retaliation Sovs shot over 100 White Russians prisoners…
As British spies
Same Russian town, I remember sitting down to tea with an old lady. All was going well until the conversation changed - as she berated Britain, Churchill, &, it seemed, even me, for not opening up the second front earlier in WW2. Over 60 years earlier.
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Jan 30
Ignorant antiracist historians overlook a crucial aspect the 18th century. It was an age when the influence of the Classical world was strong - hence neoclassicism in art & architecture. Roman history & the Latin classics were well known, as was the history of the servile wars 1/ Image
the three terrible uprisings of slaves against the Roman state. People then *knew Roman history* (in 1821 Voltaire wrote praising Spartacus, leader of the 3rd war) & abolitionists greatly feared a repetition. They believed that immediate emancipation 2/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servile_W…
would lead to anarchy. As slaves refused to work, local economies would be wrecked. Famine and bloodshed driven by the thirst for revenge would destroy all hopes of building a stable future society for the freed slaves.
If you are going to tear down statues of people who 3/
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Nov 26, 2021
Today 4pm candles will be lit to commemorate the #Holomodor of 1932-33, Stalin's enforced starvation of Ukraine. 5m+ died. In 1932, USSR exported 1.73m tonnes of grain, 1.68m in 1933 when reserves were 1.8m tonnes. Human life counts for little when building the Communist utopia.
As Orwell put it - 'there's something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years ... All people who are morally sound have known since 1931 that the Russian regime stinks.'
But British pro-Soviet enthusiasts denied anything really serious was going on.
The denials by Sidney & Beatrice 'Stalin is no dictator' Webb, Labour heroes, founders of the LSE & New Statesmen were brazen lies - but they were duped. They passed their text to the Sov. Embassy in London for editing 🤦‍♂️This page is from my book about to be reprinted #Holomodor
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Sep 18, 2021
And how…
So much of my research mirrors this. One influential speech last year to a group of British Caribbean-origin churches in U.K. inflaming them against the CofE was based on so many sheer inventions, I cannot let it pass. 1/

Ht @G_S_Bhogal Image
Honestly I’d be the last to defend the CofE on so many grounds but Prof Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor of the Uni of West Indies, leader of the Caricom reparations campaign, & an eminent knighted historian, accused the CofE of the following serious charges, all untrue: 2/
1. The CofE “was one of the largest slave owners in Barbados”
- At emancipation there were 83,000 slave on Barbados, just 411 on the estate left to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. (Not excusable but context important see no 10 below) 3/
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May 8, 2021
Arthur Koestler on the psychology of conversion. Be it Corbynism, Critical race theory 'antiracism', XR, Nazism or Communism, once the convert has 'seen the light', life takes on meaning. And the fear of losing that deafens the new recruit to all challenges to his new faith.
An intellectually closed word... a universal method of thought ... a cure for all that ails man ... which deprives him of his critical faculties.
You cannot bring a convert back to reality by objective argument. Just five minutes of Twitter proves that.
All doubts and questions are dispelled by the prophet or his lieutenants. Questioning disciples are rebuffed with argument that their thought processes are still contaminated by the world outside. Objective reasoning becomes impossible: truth is now whatever the cult says it is.
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