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Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social |
I really, really, really like Russian history, which has occasionally gotten me mistaken for a communist (no), a tankie (hells no), or someone who approve of/favors Russia/the USSR over the US. ...But to be fair, that all tends to dissolve after I talk about the Stalinist cannibal prison island.
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Emperor Joshua Norton II
@joshuanortonii.bsky.social
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A much lighter note than cannibal islands is when a diplomat tried to praise the Moscow Metro (which main station in particular looked really, really fancy at the time), and a wife of one of bigwigs was all "I wouldn't know, I'd never use such a basic transport method."
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Paul Hostetler
@phostetlerart.bsky.social
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Stalinist Cannibal Prison Island sounds like a kinky underground manga series.
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Brigid Keely She/Her
@brigid.bsky.social
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N’s maternal grandfather was in a gulag before making it to the USA. His mom doesn’t really talk about it much except the Russian Orthodox Church really turned her off god. Anyway we’ve got some Russian military stuff kicking around somewhere.
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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...you've read _Red Plenty_, yeah? If not, it's one to put on your short list.
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Nikita Danshin
@danshinwastaken.bsky.social
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Being born in Siberia, knowing all the horrors, specifically studying history and being a huge soviet communism nerd, this was the first time I heard about this one in particular. And it literally was in a neighbouring town, cheesus fucking christ. Great.
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It's just Dirk
@dirkgrundy.bsky.social
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I remember cannibal prison island. I also like to remember lysenkoism which killed millions of people in russia and china through extremely stupid and bad agricultural practices. we can't go with Mendelian inheritance! That's for liberals, we have to go with lamarck. Because. Reasons.
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Abbaetha
@abbaetha.bsky.social
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I read Gulag but I don’t think it focused on the cannibalism. I feel like I would have remembered.
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RobotLyra, Internet Sexyman Aficionado
@robotlyra.bsky.social
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Oh boy, that sounds like another Good Old Fashioned Spike Storytime for SURE.
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Arash Mohebbi
@thatoldbear.bsky.social
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<nods> <nods> <nods> <nods> <nods> CANNIBAL WHAT NOW
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MC
@crutchingreader.bsky.social
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I once had particular kind of internet socialist white guy demand I discuss how “dreamy” Trotsky was because I have a PhD in Russian/Soviet history. I…did not have the energy to tell him the history is fascinating because so much of it is “How I Would Never Want to Actually Live”
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Vincent Becherer
@vincentbecherer.bsky.social
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Why I'll always be EXTREMELY skeptical when people advocate for "communism" and not "socialism." Because one of those has had decent success when implemented in the real world, while the other has only lead to ihuman pseudo-dictatorships (or outright dictaorships) built on fear, violence, and lies.
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Collecting-Turnip 🏳️🌈
@collect-turnip.bsky.social
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That seems to be an issue with a lot of different history interests, like the Roman Empire. I’m not sure what the Three Kingdoms Period in China says about a person, other than maybe being mistaken for Dynasty Warriors fans.
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Iron Spike
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You... DO know about the Stalinist cannibal prison island, don't you?
Where they didn't wait for you to die before they started cutting meat off of you?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaOw...
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Rev. Jesus “H" Christ, KSC
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I like their propaganda cartoons though, esp the anti-German WW2 stuff
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Buttbird
@buttbird.bsky.social
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Have you read "The Russian Moment in World History"? It's short, punchy, and very good.
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Slarnos
@slarnos.bsky.social
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Is this the one where they just scooped people off the city streets for not having papers on them and tried to bootstrap a working society from randos and hardened criminals?
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Orion Kidder
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I got to talking with a colleague who's a Russian lit specialist, and I said something about a hypothetical non-soul-crushing century of Russian history, and he's like... no no no, there's like two five-year periods that aren't horrific. That's literally it.
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JD
@lostcity.bsky.social
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Do you have any recommendations for books on Russian history? I want to write a couple of things, maybe.
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Karen Martin
@spoontopus.bsky.social
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📌
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jcc333
@jcc333.bsky.social
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Kruschev has a weird place in my heart? Like, the IBM cafeteria story and the destalinization and the corn just really make me like the guy, all else aside. Pobody’s nerfect.
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Alcibiades
@alcibiades.bsky.social
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I always appreciate your views on this and that you go out of your way to note how one is actually categorized as a kulak or a lumpenproletariat.
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Ash G.
@kilomonster.bsky.social
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I’ve heard of this cannibal island but the story would be so much better coming from you.
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✨🐸 figmentpudding 🐸✨ (Pam Poovey Aspirant)
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I enjoy and get weirdly excited about Russian history(especially commie propaganda and monumentalism) in the same way I get weirdly excited about atomic test history. That doesn’t at all in a million years mean I think any bit of it is ~good~.
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Patrick Canning
@patrickcanning.bsky.social
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Sort of similarly people think I'm pro Russia because I'm learning Russian - nope, I just find it easier than other languages I've tried, + Russian lit. And I shut up the libertarian/ Putin fanboys by saying "did you know it's legal to beat your wife in Russia?"
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Lidsel Arvinsen
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Jealous of the people who have you as a work hangout voicecall friend. Could listen to your fucked up stories forever. 💝
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