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REPOST - TWITTER WAS ALWAYS NAZI FRIENDLY - Russian Embassy demands war crimes, Twitter doesn't mind (Drunk ambassador and nuke threat updates)
Then again they have blue ticks
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Two visits to the battle site of Remagen Bridge (March 1945) - April 2022
Pictures of the structure from the 2 visits before after Easter 2022. Subscribe now Visit my Ko-fi shop to get my book Bandenbekämpfung - Hitler’s Bandit Hunters or a chat.
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A holocaust by artillery: Russian military operations in Ukraine
Russian Giatsint-S SP artillery. Image: dfnc.ru War has returned to Europe, and it’s horrifying. Since the opening salvos of Putin’s illegal war against Ukraine, the artillery has been at the heart of all the military operations. I have repeatedly argued that Russia’s calculated bombardments are crimes
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Cities: the custodians of European culture in an age of annihilation.
In 1982 I walked slowly through the bomb-damaged ruins of Dresden still prominent long after the end of the war. The city had been destroyed by an allied bombing raid in February 1945. While much was rebuilt, and more since the tragic loss of culture from all the destroyed cities
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Remember Vukovar: lessons from the breakup of Yugoslavia
(working paper) Image: Vukovar 1991, (inavukic.com) Who today, on social media, remembers the destruction of Vukovar (August-November 1991)? The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an 87-day siege of the Croatian city. The fighting led to more than 3,000 dead, 20,000 deported Croats and several ugly Serbian
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Confronting Putin’s humanitarian apocalypse.
Putin’s illegal and criminal War has unfurled a humanitarian disaster of apocalyptic proportions. The world is horrified at the scenes on news broadcasts of widespread devastation, the long lines of refugees fleeing to frontiers, the stories of starvation, the bombardments, the vicious fighting, and the deaths of many civilians,
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Emulating Kovpak – next moves in the defender’s dilemma.
This is a working draft paper, all opinions, observations, and criticisms are welcome - either by email ( philipwblood@gmail.com) or through Twitter (@HistorianBlood) and will be edited into the text. #TankTuesday - a cold tank for another hot day. — Dr Philip W Blood (@HistorianBlood) 3:53 PM ∙ Aug 16,
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From God of War to Putin’s Hammer
(pinned tie in with our August 2023 book - Putin's War Russian Genocide)
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Putin's Anaconda Plan
Image: Aljazeera News/Institute for the Study of War Since the start of Putin’s War (2022-?), speculation about the Russian way of war has been rife. These speculations show how far Russia, once the target of searching strategic analysis, had fallen into redundancy. Prior to the war, global media
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Winter War: spinning yarns of old wars in times of war
Contemporary wars are the perfect echo chambers for stirring up old war myths. Since Vladimir Putin unleashed his invasion of the Ukraine, the projection of old wars onto this war have proliferated. From Nineteenth Century favourites like the Crimean and American Civil Wars, to the parallel place names from the
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Gauleiter V.3
Michael Miller's books are the culmination of years of research. Very happy to recommend Volume 3, in this series - looking at some of Adolf Hitler's most loyal, charismatic and brutal subordinates: The Little Hitlers, officially known as Gauleiters. In this third volume, Michael and Andreas