Mastodawn

Here's a post by Andrew Northall on Bluesky:

Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin with the Izvestia newspaper at a reception in the Kremlin on the welcoming the first cosmonaut of the Earth, 14 April 1961

#Gagarin #YuriGagarin #Space #Cosmonaut #USSR #SovietUnion #Khrushchev #Kremlin #Socialism #Communism #SpaceRace

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewnorthall.bsky.social/post/3lmsbeh2enc2i

Andrew Northall (@andrewnorthall.bsky.social)

Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin with the Izvestia newspaper at a reception in the Kremlin on the welcoming the first cosmonaut of the Earth, 14 April 1961 #Gagarin #YuriGagarin #Space #Cosmonaut #USSR #SovietUnion #Khrushchev #Kremlin #Socialism #Communism #SpaceRace

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Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏Apr 4

In the US, we are taught the Cuban Missile Crisis was probably the closest humanity came to nuclear war: the infamous "Thirteen Days." Against the advice of his more aggressive military advisors, JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba and (quietly) agreed to withdraw American warheads from Turkey. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev added the condition that we never invade Castro's Cuba. Deal done. 🤝

That story is broadly accurate, but would the Soviets have gone to war for Cuba? Was there a panic on the streets of Moscow? Did they even consider it a "crisis"?

Khrushchev's son gave a very interesting interview in 2012 on these questions:
https://news.usni.org/2012/10/24/soviet-perspective-cuban-missile-crisis-nikita-khrushchevs-son

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#history #ushistory #coldwar #sovietunion #ussr #Cuba #1960s #khrushchev #jfk #cubanmissilecrisis

America has become Russia.
Khrushchev won.

Now, let's stop them from taking Canada

#Canada #Russia #America #Khrushchev #Trump #StopFascism #StopTrump #StopMAGA #StopPutin #StopRussia

Dmitry Borodaenko Mar 24

As an observant listener of Mykhailo #Sheitelman's live podcast has pointed out, Trump administration, or at least Trump's envoy to #Russia #SteveWitkoff, has indirectly claimed that #Kursk is #Ukraine: in his interview to Tucker Carlson, Witkoff claimed that #Khrushchev, who was born in Kursk oblast, was Ukrainian.

The ignorant idiot tried to claim that Khrushchev gave Russian lands to Ukraine, and instead admitted that even some lands Russia kept to itself after WW1 were ethnically Ukrainian.

MoscowMigrant Mar 24

#Witkoff's #lies to the #American audience:

1. The #occupied regions are actually #Russian
2. The #referendums were #independent
3. #Russia controls all 5 regions
4. #Ukraine is an artificial patchwork created by #Khrushchev
5. #Putin has no intentions to claim other #Ukrainian regions
6. Ukrainian troops are encircled near #Kursk
7. Putin is #Trump’s friend
8. Putin wants #peace

Please stop these lies when you encounter them.

https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/putin-trump-a-love-with-benefits/#witkoffs-lies-to-the-american-audience

Putin - Trump: a love with benefits

Putin gave Trump a priceless portrait of Trump painted by Safronov, while Trump's friend Witkoff and Tucker Carlson spent an hour and a half lying non-stop about Ukraine, the war, and Putin.

MoscowMigrant

Daniela Pagenstecher 🇺🇦 🚴‍♂️ 📚Mar 12

"The #Ukrainians are fighting and dying"
"#Russian occupation of Ukraine must end".
An image from the US Library of Congress.
Photographer: Marion S. #Trikosko
Created 20th September 1960.
#LibraryofCongress #NewYork #SlavaUkraini #Chruschtschow #UN #UnitedNations #Khrushchev #Demonstration #History #HistoryRepeating #Sovjet #Imperialism
URL https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.83276/

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Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 Jan 19

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🥥 Destroyed from within.
David Brinkley, on November 18, 1956, reported on his NBC Nightly News show that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had said earlier that day, "We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the United States. We will destroy you from within.”
On Monday, January 20, 2025, we'll be shoveling soil into the grave. 🥥
#USPolitics #Inauguration #InaugurationSurvivalKit #Trump #Khrushchev #TuckersBalls

anubis2814 Jul 27, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2VmC-SLInM
Turns out people of #Russia did not like capitalism as they spent the rest of the 90s impoverished as the oligarchs robbed them by buying up the nation for kopecks on the ruble. #Putin pulled them out of poverty which is why so many are blindly loyal to him. #Stalin was already seen as a bad guy during destalinization under #Khrushchev. While after enough time he finally helped win WWII, he refused to fight Hitler at first and locked himself away believing Hitler would never break their pact and it took the local peoples to fight them for several months before he did anything finally. Stalin locked up 3% of the nations population, the only nation to beat that level of prison population is the US with .7% of its population in prison roughly 5 to 10 years ago at its peak, North Korea might be higher be we have no real data on the nation. Around 1991, the top 3 nations with highest % in prison we the US, South Africa and the soviet union in 3rd. Prior to Nixon the soviet union have roughly the same percentage they had in 91, but we had half or less the prisoners they did. We did have lynchings though.Oddly enough it was Putin that has given him a rehab. #ussr

Histeria! - Joseph Stalin Sees His Agent

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Naveed Jun 22, 2024

#Stalin and #Khrushchev both had strived to become #Nobel Peace Prize laureates. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-peace-prize-revelations-from-the-soviet-past/

The Nobel Peace Prize: revelations from the Soviet past

NobelPrize.org

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elCelio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦May 14, 2024

@jmarnesto @anderspuck
he's lucky.

#Khrushchev once said that one of his greatest accomplishments as leader of the #SovietUnion was when he promoted #Malenkov to director of a hydroelectric power plant in Kazakhstan and #Kaganovich to director of a potash works in the Urals: he didn't kill them, as #Stalin would have done in his place.