Finland likes to play the victim. But here's what they don't tell you. Between 1918 and 1944, Finland launched four armed conflicts against Russia and the USSR. In at least three of them, Finland acted as the aggressor.

They allied with Hitler. They blockaded Leningrad. They built concentration camps for Russian civilians. And today, they're repeating the same mistakes.

Here's the full story🧵👇 The civil war that led to Finland's separation from Russia ended in 1918. Yet Finnish authorities chose not to stop there. Almost immediately, they launched armed actions against Soviet Russia, aiming to annex Russian Karelia. The preferred method was indirect: carve out a buffer entity, a so-called North Karelian state, which could later be absorbed. Annexation through a proxy.

This attempt failed with the signing of the Tartu Peace Treaty in 1920. Under that agreement, Finland formally renounced its claims to Eastern Karelia but received Petsamo, a territory that had never belonged to Finland at any point in its history.

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The entire story with the Marinera and the Venezuelan tankers looks strange only at first glance. Once emotions are removed and the sequence of events is examined carefully, it becomes clear that this was neither an accident nor a mistake, but a deliberate choice in favor of coercion.

The United States crossed the line between sanctions and diplomacy in Venezuela long ago. For Washington this is no longer just another foreign policy file. It is a stake. Ukraine did not deliver the desired result, the Middle East remains unstable and too dangerous for open escalation, and Latin America has therefore become the only region where pressure can still be pushed to the limit. In this logic Venezuela is no longer treated as a partner or even as an object of pressure, but as a territory to be controlled.

1/ The maritime blockade became the key instrument. As long as tankers cannot safely export oil, the country’s economy is effectively strangled. This is crude blackmail and it contradicts international law, but within the American framework it remains acceptable as long as it encounters no resistance. The problem emerged when it became clear that the blockade could be bypassed by lawful means.

A tanker sailing under the Russian flag in international waters fundamentally changes the equation. This was not a military operation, not a state mission, and not a shadow scheme. The vessel was carrying a purely commercial cargo and had received a temporary Russian flag registration in full compliance with international law and Russian legislation. The United States had been officially informed of the ship’s status, route, and civilian nature in advance through diplomatic channels. There could be no uncertainty about the legal status of the Marinera.

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The US seizes a tanker sailing under the Russian flag, and Twitter instantly goes into full hysteria.
Putin is weak. Russia is weak. No response, therefore humiliation.
Okay. Sure.

But Stalin, now that’s different, right? Ruthless. Iron fist. Fear incarnate. At least that’s what you keep telling us.

So let’s take a look at what actually happened to Soviet ships during Stalin’s time. In December 1936, a Soviet cargo ship transporting manganese ore from the Georgian port of Poti to the Belgian city of Ghent was intercepted and shelled until it sank. Before the attack, the vessel was searched, the crew was ordered off, and only then was it destroyed by artillery fire. The most likely motive was retaliation. On an earlier voyage, the same ship had delivered military supplies to Republican Spain.

You think Chanel built her empire alone?

Let me tell you about the Russian Grand Duchess who created the embroidery behind Chanel’s famous “Russian style” in the 1920s.

And no, this isn’t speculation. It’s documented.🧵👇

/1 Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, cousin of Nicholas II, fled Russia after the revolution.

In 1921, she founded Kitmir, an embroidery house in Paris, with Prince Dmitry Pavlovich.

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They said the Bolsheviks fought for the poor. Before the revolution in 1917, Russia had 1,300 tons of gold, the second-largest reserve in the world. Plus centuries of Imperial treasures worth billions.

Where did it all go? 🧵👇

1/ The revolutionaries seized power and stripped the empire bare.

By the 1920s, they were liquidating everything: Fabergé eggs, Romanov jewels, masterpieces from the Hermitage, icons, manuscripts, imperial regalia.

They dumped gold and art cheap, and in the total chaos of the time anyone who had access took what they could. There was no real control, no proper accounting, and no transparency.

Western dealers bought these items for pennies. Banks took their cut. Auction houses took theirs. Middlemen cleaned up the provenance and resold everything for fortunes.

Some of it was sold officially by the state. Some was siphoned off along the way. Some simply disappeared. Revolutionary chaos turned the process into open season for anyone positioned to profit.

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You've been told the Russian Revolution was a spontaneous uprising of the oppressed masses.

But what if I told you it was meticulously planned, funded with millions of German marks, and executed according to a memorandum written two years before it happened?

Meet Alexander Parvus. 🧵👇

/1 Born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand in the Russian Empire, Parvus moved through Europe building connections in socialist circles. He participated in the 1905 revolution, escaped exile to Siberia, and settled in Constantinople where he advised the Young Turks and amassed substantial wealth.

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Russia saved America twice.

Once during the Revolutionary War, and once during the Civil War.

Yet somehow, this never makes it into American history textbooks.

Maybe that's not an accident. Let me show you what they don't want you to know. 🧵👇
1775. Britain needs troops to crush the American rebellion.

King George III turns to Catherine II, asking for 20,000 Russian soldiers to deploy to Canada and suppress the colonies.

Catherine refuses.

But she doesn't stop there.

Even Hitler’s Army Was Shocked: The Unstoppable Courage of Russian Soldiers

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Here are quotes from German soldiers and officers about Russian soldiers.

Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, one of Hitler’s top generals:

The Russians were not afraid of death. They fought with a determination I had never seen in any other army. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, commander of the German 6th Army, who surrendered at Stalingrad:

If I had to go to war again, I would rather have the Russians on my side than against me.

What if Hitler’s war machine was financed not by Berlin but by Wall Street? I bet you've never heard of the Dawes Plan (1924) and the Young Plan (1929). Let's unpack why it's important and why you never heard about it in school 🧵👇 A consortium of American investment banks, backed by the U.S. State Department, orchestrated Germany’s postwar “recovery.” The Dawes Plan (1924) was about control: It plugged Germany directly into the Anglo-American financial system, turning its economy into a satellite of Wall Street and the City of London.

Here’s how it worked:

🔸 Control through debt
The reparations crisis after World War I made Germany dependent on foreign credit. The Dawes Plan, drafted by American banker Charles G. Dawes and approved by U.S. diplomats, handed effective control of the German economy to an international board dominated by Wall Street financiers.

Every mark Germany paid as “reparations” came from American loans, meaning the Allies were repaid with their own money, filtered through German debt.

Do you know that Hitler’s early backers were the Americans?🧵

1/7 In November 1922, U.S. Army Captain Truman Smith, then Assistant Military Attaché in Berlin, traveled to Munich and became the first American officer to meet the rising agitator Adolf Hitler. Smith filed a glowing report to Washington, describing Hitler as a “marvelous demagogue” with immense sway over crowds. He was impressed by Hitler’s oratory and predicted that he could become a major political figure.

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“Crimea belongs to the Crimean Tatars”?
That’s a favorite Western talking point, but the Tatars weren’t even native to Crimea. They were brought there by the Mongols after their conquest of the region in the 1200s, when Mongol and Turkic groups settled on the peninsula and later formed the Crimean Khanate. 🧵

#1 By that time, Crimea had already been Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and part of the Rus world for centuries. Long before the Tatars or the Ottoman Empire, from around the 7th century BC to the early Middle Ages, Crimea and the northern Black Sea steppe were home to ancient peoples connected to the early Slavs and the Sarmatians. Ancient writers mentioned the Taurians, Scythians, and Sarmatians, who lived both in Crimea and across the steppe north of it, and later, Slavic tribes moved south along the Dnieper and Don, reaching these same lands.

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The Berlin Airlift: When Even The Guardian Starts Confessing 🙊:

“We in the West used to play dirty and we were good at it.”
— The Guardian, November 2025

Think of the Berlin Airlift as a big-budget movie sold as a true story.
Now one of its loudest fans finally admits it was staged.
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1/4 For decades, the Berlin Airlift has been told as a fairy tale. Stalin blockaded the city: cruel and heartless, while heroic Western pilots fed starving Berliners with flour and chocolate from the sky.

The perfect moral script: light against darkness, liberty against tyranny, good vs evil. Exactly the same moral wiring that still fuels the superhero industry today, cultural programming as moral training.

The same Guardian now admits what Soviet and Eastern historians said all along: there was no full blockade. In Britain’s own National Archives, the Foreign Office wrote in 1948:

“The blockade of Berlin is NOT a siege… movement in and out of Germany is possible all the time.”

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A Story Buried Under Decades of Propaganda:
How The West Fed Hitler Countries Hoping He'd Go Eat Russia

Alright, let's break down one of the biggest lies they teach you in history class about the Munich Agreement of 1938: that the Western democracies were just these naive, peaceful guys who got tricked by Hitler when they gave him Czechoslovakia. Bullshit. They weren't dumb. They were playing a game. And they thought they were geniuses.

1 of 6 They didn't just "give in" to Hitler over Czechoslovakia in 1938. They gifted it to him at the Munich Conference. Why do you think they did it? The plan was pretty simple: This Hitler guy was hungry for war. The West wanted to point him East and let him go fight the Soviet Union, so both can destroy each other, while the West could stay cozy and safe, free from competition in the global power game.

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Hey communists, this message is for you.

Guys, I get it you like communist ideas and teachings. I kinda like them too. However, when it comes to history, you can’t and shouldn’t favor the propaganda of that era just because it fits your narrative.

Verify it. Face the facts. Then defend your favorite ideology from the position of truth, that’s only fair.

And I think that once you realize that those “bad tsar” stories from the pre-revolutionary period were lies, you’ll actually find even more interesting material.

Debunking the “evil tsar” myth doesn’t make communist ideas bad but speaking the truth definitely makes you better 🧵 Myth #1: “Russia’s economic growth was driven by foreigners.”

🔸 Fact: Foreign investments did exist, but they accounted for no more than 25–30% of industrial capital.
🔸 The majority of factories, railways, and banks were owned by Russian merchants, industrialists, and the state.
Foreign investors played the role of a catalyst, not the owners of the economy.

🔸 Ironically, under Lenin the West owned more of Russia’s industry than under the Tsar. Through “concessions,” foreigners controlled oil, gold, timber, and exports while the Soviet state got crumbs.

That’s what “liberation from capitalism” looked like in practice🤪

Haha, it’s honestly hilarious how these accounts not only pick the dullest, grayest photos, but also ones that are 30 years old. This cheap propaganda from someone who has never even set foot in Russia is nothing but a joke. Let’s check out some real photos of these cities and maybe ask for the exact spots of those “pictures” this mentally unstable person keeps posting because they clearly don’t match reality🧵👇
1/ Novosibirsk is the largest city in Siberia and one of Russia’s main economic and scientific hubs. Over the past decade, it has seen rapid development in infrastructure, technology, and higher education, with major investments in road networks, housing, and business centers. The city’s IT and innovation sectors, especially around Akademgorodok, have grown significantly, turning it into a regional “Silicon Valley.” At the same time, Novosibirsk has modernized its public spaces, transport, and cultural life, while maintaining its role as a key industrial and logistics gateway between Europe and Asia.
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Myths and Truth about the Warsaw Uprising

For decades we have been told one version of events: brave Polish fighters rose up, while the Soviet Union stood on the other side of the river, coldly watching them die. Hollywood and Western scholars turned this into a symbol of Soviet “betrayal.” But the documents and facts tell a very different story.

For decades the same story has been repeated: the Home Army rose heroically, the Red Army betrayed Warsaw, and Stalin let the city die. But compare this with real documents, and the myth collapses.

But let’s go step by step.

1/8 Operation Tempest, or Burza, is still sold in the West as a story of Polish heroism. But if you look closer, this was the blue print of the Warsaw uprising.

The plan came from the London exile government. On paper, it was about joining the fight against the Wehrmacht. In reality, it was a race against the Red Army. The main goal was this: as the Red Army approached, the Polish underground would launch uprisings behind German lines, drive out German garrisons, and take control of towns, so they could greet the Soviets as the de facto local authority, acting on behalf of the Polish government-in-exile in London. And here you have it: The most well-known episode of Operation “Burza” was the Warsaw Uprising, originally planned as part of this broader operation and which ended in catastrophe: tens of thousands dead, the city destroyed, the AK crushed.

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When NATO Broke Its Promise and Russia Knew It

On December 1, 1994, NATO made a move that would change the world map. Without setting any exact dates, the alliance released a communiqué declaring it was starting talks on expanding eastward. That meant moving into territories once under the Soviet sphere. Russia immediately saw the threat.

In Paris that same month, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev slammed the decision. And on December 5, President Boris Yeltsin stood at the CSCE summit in Budapest and warned the world: NATO expansion is not peace but a provocation. The Cold War is over, he said, but the West is bringing in a “cold peace.” And this time, the threat was closer to home.

1/9 Yeltsin proposed an alternative vision - a system of European security based on cooperation, not confrontation. But the Clinton administration brushed it off as "unrealistic." Still, Washington knew they couldn't ignore Moscow. During the 1995 Moscow summit, Yeltsin and Clinton discussed not only financial support via IMF and World Bank, but also a deal: NATO expansion would be gradual, Russia would be consulted on European security, and NATO would boost its political - not just military - dimension.

Earlier, in June 1994, Russia had agreed in principle to join the "Partnership for Peace." But NATO’s airstrikes against Bosnian Serbs in August sparked outrage in Moscow. Russia froze the talks. Only after another summit did negotiations resume. On May 30, 1995, Russia officially joined the Partnership.

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Myth that “Russia was a Mongol province!” and interesting parallels to today’s geopolitics.

Oh, here we go again, the same old tune. Yes, Rus paid tribute to the Mongols. Nobody denies that. But twisting this into “Russia didn’t exist”? That’s propaganda. Again.

Even the Mongols themselves acknowledged Rus. The khans issued yarlyks (charters) to the princes of Rus. If there was no Rus, who exactly were those yarlyks addressed to? Ghosts?

Some facts that don’t bend:
🔸 Rus kept its coinage, minted with its own symbols.
🔸 Rus worshipped the same Orthodox Christ.
🔸 The Rurik dynasty continued without interruption.
🔸 The people kept their identity and yes, their DNA code (R1a, to be precise).

Let’s dive into how this connects to Poland, the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, NATO, and the Vatican🧵👇 So the Mongols acknowledged Rus by issuing yarlyks to its princes. Europe of the time marked Rus as a country on its maps. Both worlds recognized Rus - yet in 2025, trolls deny it. Who do you trust: the Mongols and medieval Europe, or today’s propaganda bots?

1. Map: Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1300, England).
2. Map: Ebstorfer Weltkarte (c. 1234, Saxony).
3. Map: Psalter World Map (c. 1265, England, likely London or Westminster).

Think of India in the 19th century: ruled directly by the British, economy drained, industries ruined, millions starved. Yet it was still India on every map, its identity intact.

Rus had it easier: it paid tribute but kept its princes, faith, culture, and coins. If India wasn’t erased under full colonial rule, why pretend Rus vanished under the Mongols?

But look at today’s “Western reconstructions”: suddenly the entire map is just the Mongol Empire, with no Rus at all. That’s political revisionism.

Why Ukraine Doesn’t Qualify as the Successor of ‘Kievan Rus’.

Since 2014, Ukraine has been busy inventing a national identity from scratch. History? Doesn’t matter. Facts? Optional. Logic? Throw it out the window. The result? A confused mess of revisionism where everyone and everything is magically “Ukrainian.” But let’s unpack this fairytale.

Myth #1: Ukraine is the true successor of Kievan Rus

Let’s start with the obvious. In the time of Rus, there were no “Ukrainians.” Not even the concept. Zero. Zilch. The people were called Rus, that’s what the Greeks called them too: Ῥῶς (Ros), and later Ῥωσία (Rosia). There was no magical country called “Ukraine” in the 10th century.

Even the term “Kievan Rus” didn’t exist at the time. Historians in 19th-century Russia (not Ukraine) invented that label just to describe a specific period when Kiev was a center of power. Back then, it was just Rus - no prefixes, no qualifiers.

For the record:
🔸The first capital of Rus was Staraya Ladoga (modern Russia),
🔸Then Novgorod,
🔸Then Kiev, but only for part of the 10th to early 12th centuries.

After that, Rus split into various centers - Vladimir, Suzdal, then eventually Moscow. So Kiev was the capital for a while, sure. But using that to claim the whole legacy? That’s like Rome claiming it owns modern Germany because they used to camp there. Myth #2: Ruthenia = Ukraine?

Nice try. “Ruthenia” is just Latin for Rus. Polish and Hungarian sources used the word “Rutheni” to describe eastern Slavs living under their rule, not some special Ukrainian tribe. And now modern Ukrainians try to parade it around as “proof” they’re a unique people?

Here is the break down:

🔸Rus (Old Russian) = original name
🔸Rosia (Greek) = Byzantine records
🔸Ruthenia (Latin) = Western European term

All different names for the same people, the same civilization. No Ukrainians. Not until the 20th century. Sorry.

Classic British diplomacy: polite smiles on the surface, but in reality deceitful, manipulative, and driving others into war. It was the case in 1939, and it’s the same today. Finland, on Britain’s cue, did everything possible to provoke conflict with the USSR in order to weaken it.

This declassified doc shows Britain’s foreign policy at its finest: play the “good guy” while betraying every principle and fueling war.
🔸To Moscow, they smiled and said they agreed with Soviet guarantees for Finland.
🔸To Helsinki, they whispered: “Reject it, stir up trouble, block the deal.”
🔸Then they lied back to Moscow: “We’re fine with it, it’s Finland resisting.”

Our Helsinki resident reports that during the course of the Anglo-Soviet negotiations, the Finnish government continuously urged Britain not to agree to guarantees for Finland from the USSR. Britain responded to these requests with consent. However, in recent days Britain informed the Finns that the negotiations were developing in such a way that Britain would apparently satisfy the USSR’s demands regarding Finland. At the same time, Britain advised the Finns to raise a fuss and refuse the guarantee. By doing this, Britain could take advantage in negotiations with the USSR and be able to say that Britain itself does not object, but Finland does.

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Politically, it was Finland that derailed the peace talks and initiated the confrontation. It acted in the interests of Britain and France, hoping to turn the USSR’s northern border into a hotspot of war.

“England and France are currently trying to use Finland as a pretext to stir up public opinion against the USSR”.

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Unveiling the forgotten history: German soldiers' brutal eradication of Slavs - raped, looted, and burned their way through Soviet villages.

A thread on the untold atrocities of WWII.

Stop ignoring how the Wehrmacht acted against the Slavs. Increasingly, we hear claims like "maybe Hitler wasn't a bad guy." Perhaps this is because all you've heard is the story of the six million.

But here’s the real story🧵👇

During WWII, Nazi Germany carried out a full-blown “war of annihilation” in the USSR killing, torturing, raping, and looting millions of civilians. Most people in the West barely know about it. Nazi leaders had branded Slavs “sub-humans” and even issued orders saying soldiers weren’t accountable for violence against civilians. As one German corporal casually wrote in 1942, “The Russians are animals. We can do whatever we want to them.”

Content Warning: This discussion covers graphic accounts of wartime violence and is intended for educational purposes only.

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Rape as a Weapon

From the onset of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi forces targeted local women with brutal assaults. By 1943, alarmed SS commanders discovered that half their troops in the East were engaged in "undesirable" acts with "alien" women. Instead of imposing penalties, the Barbarossa Decree (May 13, 1941) ensured soldiers faced no repercussions for crimes against civilians. Consequently, mass rapes, gang assaults, and forced brothels were woven into the Wehrmacht's terror tactics. Astonishingly, much of the Western world still turns a blind eye to these atrocities.

Content Warning: This discussion covers graphic accounts of wartime violence and is intended for educational purposes only.

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