smoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluMar 27, 2024
More from my crappy history prof:
Show threadsmoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluMar 27, 2024
I don't think I could disagree more with this! IMO the biggest failure of the USSR was forcing a nationalist Russification over its borders, rather than acting as a true Union of multiple Republics
Show threadsmoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluMar 27, 2024
Great-Russian chauvinism replacing korenizatsiia under Stalin was probably the biggest mistake the Soviets made in the long run
Show threadsmoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluMar 27, 2024
Calling the Cheka a "terrorist police force" is an interesting choice of words. I'm obviously no fan of the Cheka but what is it about them that's singularly "terrorist"? Usually that kind of wording is reserved for non-state actors
Show threadsmoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluMar 27, 2024
Torn between being pleasantly surprised that he's recognizing the Armenian genocide at all, and suspecting that he's only doing it to further his trend of demonizing the Ottoman Empire for Islamophobia purposes
Show threadsmoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluMar 27, 2024
Like yeah 100% a horrific tragedy but do you have to keep saying "Islamist" with such emphasis when you talk about it
Show threadsmoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluMar 27, 2024
Low bar but glad that he's accurately saying that the British and French dividing up the former Ottoman Empire arbitrarily is a primary source of a lot of the present-day violence in the Middle East. I was honestly a little worried he would blame most of it on Islam
Show threadsmoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluMar 27, 2024
In the name of every Irishman go fuck yourself lol
Show threadsmoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluApr 15, 2024
Reviewing my notes and found that in his other class he does straight up deny that the Irish Potato Famine was in any way the fault of the British colonial government. Fuck off! People have been calling it a man-made famine since the year it happened!
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John Mitchel, 18-fucking-60:

"I have called it an artificial famine: that is to say, it was a famine which desolated a rich and fertile island that produced every year abundance and superabundance to sustain all her people and many more. The English, indeed, call the famine a "dispensation of Providence"; and ascribe it entirely to the blight on potatoes. But potatoes failed in like manner all over Europe, yet there was no famine save in Ireland. The British account of the matter, then, is first, a fraud; second, a blasphemy. The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine."

Apr 15, 2024 at 9:15pmWeb
Show threadsmoking π’‹†π’„£π’Œ¦π’ˆΎπ’ with 'iluApr 15, 2024
cmon man you got Victorian era writers kicking your ass here. take the L