Marek Handzel

Editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe by day, novelist by night.

[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

On June 9th, 1965, 18-year-old Dieter Brandes attempted to escape East Berlin near Nordbahnhof station in the Mitte district. He was shot in the back by border guards and left paralyzed with a serious lung injury. He died of circulatory failure in the hospital a little over four months later.

[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

On June 9th, 1976, 56-year-old attorney Luis Carlos Albo Llamosas was walking to a secondary school where he taught vocational training when two members of the socialist Basque separatist group ETA approached and shot him six times at point-blank range. He died enroute to the hospital.

[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

On June 9th, 1927, in one of the first acts of the First Stalin Mass Operation, twenty political prisoners, mostly former officers, aristocrats, and intellectuals who were imprisoned in Leningrad were accused of espionage for Britain and executed.

[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

On June 10th, 2001, the revolutionary socialist Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb in Logroño, Spain, destroying homes, shops and cars within a radius of 150 meters. Two people were injured.

[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

@RTSG_Main Unless they go on strike after the revolution happens, in which case you should shoot them if they're Polish shipyard workers or arrest them if they're Romanian miners.

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Why must it be so ugly🤦‍♂️

[Marek Handzel @Hazemachine]

Watch out for those dangerous mushrooms

[createstreets @createstreets]

The Sith Dark Lord Aesthetic is regrettably peek high status design at present. From Obama’s bookless library to this new defence facility in London

[createstreets @createstreets]

From horizontal slits to vertical bays. From bunker to humane. Some things ARE getting better.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Even after 33 years, this intro hasn’t aged a day. https://t.co/GU85b3dPMh

[The Aesthetic City @Aesthetic_City]

@Memoire2cite Fixed

[Jenny Grant @SilenceInPolish]

One of the neat advantages of Polish heritage is that you skip the whole 'the USSR was a force for anti-imperialism' teenage phase pretty effortlessly.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Only one in ten people will get this.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Quære vērum — “Seek after truth.”

[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

On January 25th, 1985, members of Action Directe, a French Marxist-Leninist terror group, assassinated French Army General René Audran in front of his home in Paris.

[Jenny Grant @SilenceInPolish]

This is cheerfully insane

[1926 Live @100YearsAgoLive]

A lost Polish city is found in the jungle of Brazil.

The colony had been lost since 1873 until Polish naturalist Stanlislas Przyjemski rediscovered the 1,000 settlers this week.

53 years isolated, most of the survivors and their descendants know nothing of Poland anymore.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

People should stop calling barbaric things “medieval” and start saying, “Whoa, that’s modern.”

[IREI @IREI_Inc]

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[The Aesthetic City @Aesthetic_City]

Le Plessis-Robinson proves France still knows how to build neighborhoods people actually want to live in.