Tom Junes

historian, @MSCActions Fellow @EuropeanUni, Assistant Professor @ISPPAN, bylines @openDemocracy @BalkanInsight @Rept_Democracy @ForeignPolicy

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

Some thoughts of mine for @Rept_Democracy in the wake of the trial against two leading #Holocaust historians in #Poland...https://t.co/y0hCBd6nqz

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

Police violence against women in London...could easily become a visual propaganda coup for the government in #Poland as well as other governments in Eastern Europe... #PoliceBrutality

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

@suboticjelena last weekend of March...we're not there yet...

[John O’Brennan @JohnOBrennan2]

This was entirely predictable but still v depressing: Boiko Borisov has abdicated responsibility as Bulgaria goes deeper into Covid crisis (3,160 cases today)
All that matters is re-election on 4 April.
He should face charges of criminal irresponsibility.
https://t.co/Kgr5GYPJfO

[The Eurasian Knot (@euraknot.bsky.social) @euraknot]

Cover of the 11 April 1968 issue of Krokodil after MLK's assassination.

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

Next week, I'll be talking about how communist regimes generated youthful resentment and opposition in #Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe at the Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po @ScPo_CHSP, an event co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute in Paris @dhiparis.

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

#IPN, an institution which recently had to cancel the appointment of a fascist Nazi sympathiser as director of one of its branches, protests against a neighbouring country naming a football stadium after a fascist Nazi collaborator...you just can't make this up...#Poland #Ukraine

[Institute of National Remembrance @ipngovpl_eng]

❗The #IPN protests against naming the stadium in Ternopil after Roman Szuchevych, during #WW2 an officer of German police battalions, such as "Nachtigal", and then the #UPA commander responsible for the genocide of Polish civilians in Volhynia and Eastern Lesser Poland.

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

@DrRadchenko @LorenzLuthi Protecting the 'spoils of war'...

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

@johnpaul_newman The next Zoom background?

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

@KubikJan tbf...it has been from the start in 2015...the biggest problem is that the opposition has not been able to get its act together...

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

@VictorPPetrov it's worse when these kind of stories are used to explain anything about the 1990s...

[Joanna Plucinska @joannaplucinska]

'We are at war': Poles mark Women's Day after abortion rules tightened | Reuters https://t.co/Sj1XPW0W5h

[Misha Friedman @MishaFriedman]

Recently in Belarus, three journalists got lengthy prison sentences for doing their jobs. They are all women.

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

On the anniversary of another episode of mass protests on International Women's Day...

[Alicja Ptak @AlicjaPtak4]

Heavy police presence in Warsaw during protests against a near-total ban on abortion on International Women's day.

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

it's kind of amazing to see the shock of the Anglosphere upon learning that an institution which is a remnant of feudalism might uphold retrograde and reactionary views...

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

@DimitarBechev no more motorways?

[Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin]

A thoughtful piece on what the author calls “Russia’s pockets of efficiency” including a fascinating detail about the aborted Soviet Internet project. My story on this subject is coming soon. Watch this space.
https://t.co/GfvzHwFUUF

[Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @ProfPech]

Reminder re #Bulgaria: TBOMK, EU Commission has never launched a *single* infringement action on #ruleoflaw grounds with @EPP/@CDU_CSU_EP again complicit in consolidation of yet another mafia state in Europe under local mini-Orban known as Boyko Borisov

https://t.co/jnmLuQh4Pi

[Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin]

A very thoughtful piece by @DrRadchenko on Russia’s alienation from the West. As I remember 1990s very vividly - in Russia, Germany and the UK - I am more than convinced there was another way. The West just failed to be the adult in the room.
https://t.co/DGLi64AC0l

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

@DimitarBechev birds of a feather flock together...and the monument serves as magnet...though it's also good for skateboarding...

[Tom Junes @Tom_Junes]

though the problem with these memory wars in the 2010s and 2020s is that those who are ardently 'fighting the anti-communist struggle' in #Bulgaria, #Poland, and #Ukraine...are without exception either the #FarRight, radical-right illiberals, or their fellow traveller enablers...

[Dimitar Bechev @DimitarBechev]

Bulgarian memory wars meet Polish memory wars, with a bit of Ukraine. Soviet Army monument in downtown Sofia.