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Exclusive: #Putin, for #Ukraine peace, wants a pledge to halt #NATO enlargement

Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards [shorthand for formally ruling out membership to Ukraine, #Georgia & #Moldova & other former #Soviet republics] & lift a chunk of sanctions on #Russia, according to three Russian sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

#geopolitics
reuters.com/world/europe/putin

If you still have any doubt that #Putin fully plans to recapture the entire #USSR, watch this.

Putin’s advisor Kobyakov begins to float the narrative that the USSR still exists, and subsequently the invasion of Ukraine is an internal conflict.

This will soon be the narrative employed regarding the Baltic states, Moldova and all former #Soviet satellites - unless the world finally stops it.

"#Writer Sasha Vasilyuk was awarded on Tuesday the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for #Jewish #Literature for her debut #novel, “Your Presence Is Mandatory,” which explores the moral terrain of Jewish life in the #Soviet Union.

“I wrote this novel to honor voices nearly lost to silence and am immensely grateful and humbled that the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is paying tribute to this complicated #history and the people who lived it,” said Vasilyuk, who was inspired by her family history in #writing the novel."

timesofisrael.com/sami-rohr-pr

Today in Labor History May 18, 1928: Big Bill Haywood died in exile in the Soviet Union. He was a founding member and leader of both the Western Federation of Miners and the IWW (the Wobblies). During the first two decades of the 20th century, he participated in the Colorado Labor Wars and the textiles strikes in Lawrence and Patterson. The Pinkertons tried, but failed, to bust him for the murder of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg. However, in 1918, the feds used the Espionage Act to convict him, and 101 other Wobblies, for their anti-war activity. As a result, they sentenced him to twenty years in prison. But instead of serving the time, he fled to the Soviet Union, damaging his image as a hero among the Wobblies. He ultimately died from a stroke related to his alcoholism and diabetes. Half his ashes were buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. The other half of his ashes were sent to Chicago and buried near the Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument.

You can read my full article on union busting by the Pinkertons here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/

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⬆️ @ecadre

Let me read this back to you slowly…

>> So go BACK to #Soviet #Russia, or choose another communist country where there is no poverty.

As in go back in time when Soviet Union was communist.

Or, choose any other country that fits your definition of communism to prove your point.

>> Is present-day #NorthKorea good enough for you?

I even tried to help you 🤡

>> You are not only ignorant and logically-challenged, but also bigoted…

…and lack English comprehension skills.

Fuck off

A half-ton Soviet spacecraft is about to crash into Earth, but don't panic.

NBC News reports: "Kosmos-482 was designed to land on Venus but instead has spent the past 53 years languishing in Earth’s orbit because of a rocket malfunction." It's expected to enter Earth's atmosphere sometime on Saturday.

flip.it/Axi_19

NBC News · A half-ton Soviet spacecraft is about to crash into Earth, but don't panicBy Denise Chow