Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL about Ivan VI of Russia, named emperor in 1740 when he was two months old, deposed in a coup thirteen months later, then kept a prisoner in solitary confinement for 20 years until his murder.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1289arrow-down11
arrow-up1288arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Ivan VI of Russia, named emperor in 1740 when he was two months old, deposed in a coup thirteen months later, then kept a prisoner in solitary confinement for 20 years until his murder.en.wikipedia.orgFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up121·2 months agoIf anyone is trying to understand the current political situation in Russia, a brief look at their history is very instructive.
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up96arrow-down2·2 months agoRussian History: And then it got worse…
minus-squaremeep_launcher@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 months ago“we thought we hit rock bottom, but then we heard a knock from below” -Russian Joke
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoWe wanted the best but it turned out as always.
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down31·2 months agoDocile dogs breed such result but let’s be real we got enough of that every where It ain’t like “western civilization” is progressing unless you count young people slaving in poverty as some sort of gold standard… 🤔
minus-squareGraniteM@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months ago “If I fall asleep, wake up 100 years later and somebody asks me, what is going on in Russia, my immediate answer will be: drinking and stealing” –Alexander Rozenbaum
minus-squareVerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoFor a brief recap of just the Soviet Union part, this is a fun little song.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·2 months agoIt could be argued that us Germans have actually learned from our history. Unfortunately we seem to be in the process of forgetting that again.
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 months agoIf it hasn’t even been a century and you’re already regressing then no, you did not learn.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoHave faith. Isn’t the AfD close to being disbanded?
minus-squareHylactorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·2 months agoI’m going to play the law of averages and assume they mean the Falkland Islands.
If anyone is trying to understand the current political situation in Russia, a brief look at their history is very instructive.
Russian History:
And then it got worse…
“we thought we hit rock bottom, but then we heard a knock from below” -Russian Joke
We wanted the best but it turned out as always.
Docile dogs breed such result but let’s be real we got enough of that every where
It ain’t like “western civilization” is progressing unless you count young people slaving in poverty as some sort of gold standard… 🤔
–Alexander Rozenbaum
For a brief recap of just the Soviet Union part, this is a fun little song.
Now do us🐸
It could be argued that us Germans have actually learned from our history. Unfortunately we seem to be in the process of forgetting that again.
If it hasn’t even been a century and you’re already regressing then no, you did not learn.
Have faith. Isn’t the AfD close to being disbanded?
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Who is us in this case
I’m going to play the law of averages and assume they mean the Falkland Islands.
U.S.