OTD in 1949 Operation Priboi started. USSR forcibly deported *90,000* Baltic people to 'inhospitable parts' of Russia. 70% of those deported were women & children under 16.
Imagine mass deporting children today....
Attempts to return home were punishable. Those who organized the deportations received medals. We do not understand why Estonians are not grateful to us for this.
Da. Prez is aware that "inhospitable parts of Russia" is tautology.
We (and various pseudo academics*) genuinely pretend there's no way to explain why NATO is so obviously popular with so many of our former colonies. Total, unexplainable mystery. Especially seeing as we don't whitewash these crimes at all and aren't repeating them right now.
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Seeing as we're getting upset the Ayotallah was killed, and seeing as we are the self declared successor state, let's look at some of the heads of state USSR & Russia have killed.
We'll ignore that we tried to kill Zelensky. That just highlights our incompetence. 🧵
Konstantin Päts. President of Estonia. After they "asked to join USSR", he was declared mad and treated for the delusional disorder of thinking he was who he was. Died in an asylum in 1956.
Kārlis Ulmanis. President of Latvia. Arrested during 1940 "liberation" of Latvia that had nothing to do with a secret clause in a treaty with Nazis. Imprisoned, moved between jails. Died of dysentery Sep 1942.
Grave kept secret for many years. As you do when you're innocent
OTD in 1939 USSR requested Nazi German assistance in blockading Finland by supplying soviet submarines assigned to the task.
The sort of thing one ally would request of another. 👓📖👇
Someone, and it absolutely will not be @Wikileaks, will one day reveal that Trump & Prez have discussed something similar.
For the personal use of the State Secretary only. For the High Command of the Navy, Wehrmacht. The Soviet Naval Committee informs in strict secrecy that a submarine blockade against Finland is planned in the Baltic.
Now that #ZAPAD exercise with Russian and Belarusian army has finished, your Prez has declassified the scenario we used...
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The EU economy is in crisis. Poverty is ride and famine is breaking out in the bloc. Citizens look with envy to the economic juggernaut that is the Moscow led Eurasian economic union. "Why can't we earn the mighty Ruble" starving citizens wail.
The US Dollar is becoming worthless and the Ruble is set to take its place as the world's dominant currency. Company's are withdrawing en mass from western stock exchanges and listing shares on the Moscow stock exchange, keen to take advantage of Russia's booming economy.
The official Tankie guide to Israel-Iran war in 10 rules.
1. Being attacked by a nuclear power no longer means you should surrender immediately.
2. There is no need to trade land for peace, pledge neutrality and disarm after electing a government that the attacker approves of.
3. A massing of the attacking country's forces in its own territory, or in an international waters, is absolutely a threat. News which reports such is to be believed immediately, even if it is CNN
OTD in 1956 several armored Soviet humanitarian divisions, with equipment bought from a shop, went on a "special military operation" to Hungary to liberate the locals from themselves.
They did this cos a "fascist, hitlerite uprising financed by the west" broke out.
Imagine using such a bullshit excuse in the 21st century.
Those old tanks are now in Ukraine
Prez read somewhere USSR marked their tanks with letters and had orders to engage any Soviet equipment they found without a marking BUT also clear instructions to *not* engage any NATO vehicle at all.
Not there is a lesson on calling our bluff there. Heavens no.
OTD in 1968 Soviet Russia invaded to save Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring. Some of these tanks are in Ukraine today.
We said we were protecting them from Nazis. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today...
The Warsaw Pact is the only mutual defense alliance in history to repeatedly invade itself as members were not permitted to interfere in their own internal affairs.
Da. Prez is aware most of these tanks are in Ukraine rn.
We pretend we have no idea why all our former colonies all want to join NATO. Total mystery.