Stalin's USSR was even worse than Hitler's Germany.
As monstrous as the nazi ideology was with holocaust and other ethnic cleansing of Europe, it's no match for Stalin.
In this thread, I'll list Stalin's often unspoken atrocities.
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@AdrianP_doc And all that with having the stupidest, corrupt, illiterate government and parlaments possible (with the exception of 12-13 months)… EU definitely helped, but we have not helped ourselves and we still face the same endemic problems.
@JDeweyHughes @Michael_McT1 Owe the West?! Bloody hell, that’s heartless to say the least. It’s Ukrainians who die to protect us and our comfortable, lethargic way of living. It’s Ukraine getting destroyed, it’s Ukrainian children dying by Russian shelling.
@GoodwinMJ Well Matt, not the best choice here! Orban is leading a clearly undemocratic regime close to dictatorship, has very close ties with Putin who he still supports, criticises the EU all the time, but takes their money, blocks the aids to Ukraine and is revisionist re Romania /1
@GoodwinMJ Plus, he’s involved in quite a lot of corruption and dictatorial ways of spending public money (e.g. building a football stadium in the village he was born in). He is against free speech and opposition and did ever in his power to silence critical voices. /2
For months, we heard famine in Gaza was "imminent." But there has been no famine.
The same UN-backed experts who predicted the famine have confirmed it did not materialize. But the headlines, citing their reports, still say Gaza is starving. What is going on? (A long 🧵) 1/
The best way to understand somewhere is firsthand. I went to Israel.
This is the first of a few threads. Everything I post is from primary sources and independently verified wherever possible. All photos & videos my own.
To begin: 7 October 2023.
Warning: violence.
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@Shaheer__Tahir@sentdefender Funny how the muslims are claiming and screaming for peace, with total ignorance of the brutal damage and practices used by their own people.
@peza2709@LDN_gov@MayorofLondon Sorry to hear! We left at 11:15 as there were still thousands of people waiting to get in via the pink queue. I mean you have like half a million ppl if not more to get in and you think you can do it in 2 hours?! Ridiculous!! Waiting for a refund!
@LDN_gov@MayorofLondon The question is why is it like this?! Was Mr Mayor in dire need of money and sold more tickets than normal? Or is it another prime example of @UKLabour management?!
@sumlenny Never in my 10 years in London and in the UK I have ever expected natives to pronounce my names as my mum does and I never got offended whey they didn’t. I am not 100% accurate in my pronunciation of their names, so how can the reverse be upsetting?
@sumlenny Is mispronouncing one’s name now a racist thing?! Sergej is not a very German name, same as my names, Cosmin Cãlin, are not English. How can a Brit correctly pronounce letters and sounds that do not exist in their language and that they have never heard before?! /1