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GLADIO in the Eurasian steppe
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Jul 19 • 24 tweets • 10 min read
Why Seymour Hersh’s latest article about Ukraine is wrong 🧵 (1) Casualties. Hersh’s US official source claims 2 million Russian casualties.
Even Ukraine’s MoD claims 1 million. Zelensky in December 2024 – 200,000 KIA, 550,000 WIA. BBC/Mediazona – 100,000+ KIA.
May 21 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Andrey Portnov was just assassinated in Spain. Here is a short thread on this important figure in the Ukrainian political establishment
Portnov played an important role managing Ukraine's court system in the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, until overturned by the 2014 euromaidan events
Apr 22 • 33 tweets • 11 min read
🧵on the Misanthropic Division, the Azov-associated group linked to would-be Trump assassin Nikita Kasap
All the following is from yesterday's substack post eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/trump-assass…
Feb 13 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
🧵about Russian-Ukrainian nazi collaboration - 1945-today
The Bakatin family, which recommended Malofeev to Boris Jordan, is also very interesting
Oct 2, 2024 • 28 tweets • 11 min read
Thread on Jewish-Slav relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern-day west/central Ukraine) and 19th century Hungary
How the local nobility contracted the Jews to exploit the local peasantry
Relying on these three books
Aug 30, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
According to Azov officer and historian Roman Ponomarenko, the Donbass front has 'collapsed'.
He advocates using the 1944 experience of the Wehrmacht in countering operation Bagration
Clearly Ponomarenko has been listening to @MarkAmesExiled @RadioWarNerd @Annibal97783312 t.me/RomPonomarenko…
Jul 29, 2024 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Thread on NKVD covert operations against Ukrainian nationalists, 1944-1953
Faced with a huge network of Banderite tunnels and bunkers, the NKVD split up into small mobile groups to methodically hunt down small groups of insurgents
Jul 29, 2024 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
Thread on how deportations of anti-communist insurgents in west Ukraine
The preferred method to deprive insurgents of local manpower was to mobilize into the red army, where locals became ideologically transformed
Jul 28, 2024 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Thread on how Soviet agrarian reform won the support of west Ukrainian peasants
Peasants received large scale loans and their old debts were cancelled. Poor peasants were given more land
Jul 27, 2024 • 79 tweets • 28 min read
Some notes on this book
- Primary targets of (Baltic, west Ukrainian etc) insurgents were local 'traitors'
- Main class interested in the insurgency was rich peasantry alienated by collectivization
- Deportations were on a class basis, not national