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[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧

Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.

Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧

So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖

Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.

They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.

Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.

In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.

In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.

In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.

In 1807, Britain banned the trade.

Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.

The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.

From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓

In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.

In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿

Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.

That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧

So why haven't you heard any of this?

Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.

The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧

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History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.

We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.

This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.

If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Мысли Перзидента @VVP2_0]

Холмс, почему бункер, который якобы посетил путин, замаскирован внутри, а не снаружи?

Это элементарно, Ватсон. Потому что это не бункер, а кабинет, замаскированный под бункер.

[Trotting Soles Travel Ltd @TrottingSoles]

Yerevan is a city where ancient history meets modern charm. One of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, it captivates visitors with its rose-colored streets, lively cafés, rich culture, and breathtaking views of Mount Ararat.

[Ёшкин Крот @yoshkinkrot]

«Те, кто сидят в Кремле, считают, что все, кто говорят по-русски, их холопы, территория, на которой говорят по-русски, их территория. Это классическое патриархальное мышление. Но я говорю по-русски, и я не их холоп»

— Михаил Шишкин, писатель

Видео: Радио Долин

[Ian Austin @LordIanAustin]

FIFA. Utterly corrupt.

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

Bei aller Liebe, aber diese WM ist doch zu Ende. In dem Moment, wo ein Staatschef auf den ausführenden Verband eines Turniers einwirkt, um rote Karten rückgängig zu machen, ist das Spiel doch einfach im Eimer. Trump zerstört alles, was er berührt …

[Arthur Maghakian @ArMaghak]

🇦🇲 Armenian billionaire and leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party, #GagikTsarukyan, has been arrested. He is accused of fraud on an especially large scale.

At the same time, the wild animals kept by Tsarukyan were tranquilized and transferred to the Yerevan Zoo.

#Armenia #SouthCaucasus #MiddleEast #Europe

[Petr Piruncik @petr_piruncik]

With VlakFest from Yerevan to Vanadzor 🚂🇦🇲 Great atmosphere, wonderful people, genuine curiosity to explore beyond the usual spots. This is what travel is all about! 🚉 #VlakFest #Caucasus

[Zaven Vardanuian @zavenvardanian]

Imagine how much money was stolen and concealed during the 30 years of corrupt Kremlin rule in Armenia, and how many opportunities were missed - including those that led to the loss of Artsakh. I just can’t understand why Kocharyan’s whole family are still alive

[Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonLD]

In the last few days I’ve had Russian bots hurling homophobic abuse at me.

Others have insisted Russia doesn’t censor Peppa Pig and have been outraged that it supposedly features a same-sex polar bear couple (I doubt they’ll be appearing in any Russian knock-off version).

Russian state TV has literally censored rainbows from SpongeBob SquarePants.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking, but unsurprising.

The UK also needs to get a grip. The letter about Masha asked a number of questions to the Sec of State - it wasn’t just a ban the cartoon now.

We need a coherent framework for how we engage with authoritarian regimes across culture, sport and media.

It’s naive to pretend these states don’t use every avenue available to advance their agendas and project their values.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

He has to go.

[EU Armenia @EU_Armenia]

Happy Constitution Day, Armenia!

The European Union will continue to stand by Armenia on its path toward strengthening democracy and the rule of law.

[VSR2 Limited @Vsr2L]

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[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡ President Zelenskyy challenged Vladimir Putin to meet in Kostiantynivka after Putin falsely claimed Russian forces had captured the city.

“If Kostiantynivka is under Russian control, then he should have no problem meeting me there,” Zelenskyy said.

[Ruslan Volkov @RuslanVolkov25]

В 2015 году я ездил в Крым и жил там до 2018 года.
И тогда, честно, я радовался его захвату.
Сейчас я понимаю, насколько это была опасная слепота.
Непризнанная или оккупированная территория - это не просто “место на карте”.
Это территория, где сам факт твоего присутствия уже может стать участием в чужом правовом конфликте.
Ты можешь говорить:
“Я просто приехал”.
“Я просто работаю”.
“Я просто бизнес делаю”.
“Я просто детям помогаю”.
“Я вне п��литики”.
Но если ты въехал через оккупационную юрисдикцию, работаешь по её правилам, платишь там деньги, пользуешься инфраструктурой захвата - ты уже не совсем “вне политики”.
Ты становишься частью нормализации оккупации.
Даже если субъективно не хотел никому зла.
Поэтому мой совет простой:
не ездите на спорные, непризнанные и оккупированные территории.
Не ведите там деятельность.
Не стройте там бизнес.
Не покупайте там недвижимость.
Потому что потом может оказаться, что ты был не туристом и не “обычным человеком”.

А маленьким участником большой чужой незаконности.

И самое тяжёлое - понять это не сразу, а через годы.
Я признаю свою ошибку, признаю оккупацию Крыма, и желаю скорейшего восстановления закона международного права!

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

In Britain, there is a push to ban the russian propaganda animated series "Masha and the Bear.”

Recently, Netflix has acquired the rights to two new seasons of the russian propaganda series Masha and the Bear and extended its licence for distribution in more than 100 countries worldwide. Besides spreading russian propaganda, Netflix is helping russia to generate revenue that ultimately will be used to kill Ukrainians.

Over 50 British MPs have asked Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy to review whether the show can be removed from the air, since it spreads a "fluffy" form of russian propaganda.

The MPs reference episodes where Masha wears the uniforms of Soviet tank crews and NKVD border guards. They also cite assessments from Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation and Estonia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which have previously called the series an instrument of russian influence.

[Саша Кметт @sashakmett1991]

Роберт Де Ниро: «Мне ненавистно это говорить, но любовь к нашей стране начинает звучать как слова измученного супруга, который говорит, что любит своего мучителя… И позвольте мне прямо сказать: я не могу любить страну, которой правит Дональд Трамп».

Сложно спорить с очевидными вещами.
Хотя краснокепочные патриоты - те что прячут за символами пустоту в голове, начнут дружно обвинять Де Ниро в американофобии.
Вата, она везде - вата. Что в США, что в Саратове.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🚨 Zelensky’s blunt message to Putin: You’re already dead

For Slavic people, 40 days is far from a random number. According to tradition, it is on the 40th day after death that the soul finally departs this world, The Economist notes.

So when Volodymyr Zelensky announced on June 25 a 40-day campaign to compel Russia to make peace, many saw it as a symbolic message to Vladimir Putin: you’re not going to survive this.

The Economist argues that the “40 days” are less of a military deadline than a tool of psychological pressure. But one thing is real: the war is increasingly reaching Russia’s rear, and its cost for Putin keeps rising.