I am well aware Kulaks are not an ethnic group, they are a class-specifically any farmer that was a foot above the lowly former serfs

“All?” The kulaks literally burned most of it rather than allow even some to be exported to famine-afflicted regions in the rest of the country.

Pretty widely resented by Hispanic people, tho

Nice usage but I don’t think they sell Moxie that far south

I would say terrifying more than fascinating, but yeah.

I blame childhood viewings of Sliders for a decent chunk of my anxiety disorder

My thoughts exactly. That poor woman.

I HATE THE SHOCKS BUT I LOVE THE BUTTON THAT NO LONGER DISPENSES SUGAR SNACKS WHAT DO I DO

but he also atacc

The lie that we are not all taxpayers is part of the platform of the ruling political party, so, yes, I’m pretty sure most people have had their fair share of the Kool-Aid on this one.

Also, do you have a crystal ball?

Yeah, that’s empirically, mathematically not how fractional-reserve banking works. Read the article. Read Keynes. Read a newspaper. Read this:

Hardly the same thing, tho

Oh, you’re an idiot, never mind.

That is terrifying

He’s probably talking about the naval blockade of Russian ports by the British and American navies in support of the Tsarist counter-revolution. He might also be talking about the trade embargos from countries like Hungary, Romania, and Germany whose post-war military governments violently suppressed socialist and…

“Disenchanted” is probably the wrong word to use to describe someone who died before the fighting was over. She was critical of the structure of the Red Army. That’s about as far as things got in Bavaria.

Wow, no. That’s actually the opposite of what it says. Did you even read beyond the first line?

Yeah, the idea that Stalin was killing off Ukrainians out of a hatred born sometime in the five years after Lenin basically invented the idea of being Ukrainian whole cloth has always been... suspect at best to me.

Of all the things for him to be unable to find on a map, it had to be the one that’s famous for being the biggest thing on the map and the closest thing to an edge of the map, didn’t it?