🧵Great russophobic writers in history, pt 2:
Kume Kunitake (1839-1931)

In the spring of 1873, a Japanese delegation arrived in St Petersburg. Some were diplomats. Others were there to study russia… 1/12 The group’s senior writer was historian Kume Kunitake. Let’s hear some of his thoughts…
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🧵 Great russophobic writers in history, pt 1:
Giles Fletcher (1548-1611)

Fletcher was Queen Elizabeth I of England’s ambassador to Muscovy. He witnessed the founding of the Moscow Patriarchate in 1589. He was NOT impressed... (1/11) The official Kremlin position in 1589 was that Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople had arrived to transfer all his powers to Moscow, and to make Moscow the new capital of the entire Orthodox world. (2/11)

🧵For those of you who like upsetting vatniks, I present:

THE BIG RUSSIAN ARMY GAY PORN THREAD

Please use these images wisely First some background: when Russian soldiers have sex with each other, they don’t do it because they’re gay – they do it for reasons of the mysterious Russian Soul

🧵The #DildoOfConsequences in history

Wishing the Dildo of Consequences upon Russia is not a new phenomenon. Its history stretches all the way back to the 18th century…

18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns hated Catherine the Great of Russia so much, in 1792 he wrote an obscene poem hoping that the Devil would fuck her in the ass with a huge metal dildo in hell.

Let’s explore what motivated him to write that.

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