I should stop rambling; Lenin said it way better.
February 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I should stop rambling; Lenin said it way better.
The countries which experienced violence from the hand of tsar would never strip this word of its meaning and treat it like it's nothing. It speaks volumes about how English-speaking world is ignorant about the tsarist violence.
February 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The countries which experienced violence from the hand of tsar would never strip this word of its meaning and treat it like it's nothing. It speaks volumes about how English-speaking world is ignorant about the tsarist violence.
Maybe he wants to go back further than the USSR and bring back the tsarist regime. He certainly behaves more like a tsar.
It's looking more like he and trump are into the whole "spheres of influence" pre WWI doctrine.
It's looking more like he and trump are into the whole "spheres of influence" pre WWI doctrine.
February 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Maybe he wants to go back further than the USSR and bring back the tsarist regime. He certainly behaves more like a tsar.
It's looking more like he and trump are into the whole "spheres of influence" pre WWI doctrine.
It's looking more like he and trump are into the whole "spheres of influence" pre WWI doctrine.
Clearly part of tsarist Russia that survived the revolution.
February 5, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Clearly part of tsarist Russia that survived the revolution.
Equating the Tsarist empire and the Soviet Union and modern Russia is the most idiotic and braindead and ignorant thing you could possibly do, I'm sorry.
February 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Equating the Tsarist empire and the Soviet Union and modern Russia is the most idiotic and braindead and ignorant thing you could possibly do, I'm sorry.
dipped with whatever treasury he could. So the rest of the government, not knowing what had just happened, voted to kick him out and get a new president.
Then a russian tsarist started a separatist movement in eastern ukraine with government backing.
Literally none of this has anything to do with
Then a russian tsarist started a separatist movement in eastern ukraine with government backing.
Literally none of this has anything to do with
February 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM
dipped with whatever treasury he could. So the rest of the government, not knowing what had just happened, voted to kick him out and get a new president.
Then a russian tsarist started a separatist movement in eastern ukraine with government backing.
Literally none of this has anything to do with
Then a russian tsarist started a separatist movement in eastern ukraine with government backing.
Literally none of this has anything to do with
They had tycoons throwing money at them for generations, and made a certain amount of headway in terms of local politics & national propaganda, but really struggled to expand at scale UNTIL they were able to work freely with now-Christian Russia with its restored Tsarist flag after the USSR ended
February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
They had tycoons throwing money at them for generations, and made a certain amount of headway in terms of local politics & national propaganda, but really struggled to expand at scale UNTIL they were able to work freely with now-Christian Russia with its restored Tsarist flag after the USSR ended
Please include something not filled will bullshit imperialist war apologia
no socialist revolution could survive while being bled dry in an imperialist war. The left was united on this. Anti militarism was a common left opinion at the time. The old Tsarist army had largely collapsed.
no socialist revolution could survive while being bled dry in an imperialist war. The left was united on this. Anti militarism was a common left opinion at the time. The old Tsarist army had largely collapsed.
February 5, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Please include something not filled will bullshit imperialist war apologia
no socialist revolution could survive while being bled dry in an imperialist war. The left was united on this. Anti militarism was a common left opinion at the time. The old Tsarist army had largely collapsed.
no socialist revolution could survive while being bled dry in an imperialist war. The left was united on this. Anti militarism was a common left opinion at the time. The old Tsarist army had largely collapsed.
“Anti-imperialism” was popularized by Lenin, who saw imperialism as the ultimate stage of capitalism. Ironically, the largest empire is now… Putin’s Russia, proud heir to both Lenin’s Soviet Union and to the Tsarist Empire.
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February 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM
“Anti-imperialism” was popularized by Lenin, who saw imperialism as the ultimate stage of capitalism. Ironically, the largest empire is now… Putin’s Russia, proud heir to both Lenin’s Soviet Union and to the Tsarist Empire.
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My family fled tsarist Ukraine right before the revolution and never ever once in my life did they ever refer to themselves as "Russian" even though independent Ukraine didn't exist at that time. I always knew where we came from.
February 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
My family fled tsarist Ukraine right before the revolution and never ever once in my life did they ever refer to themselves as "Russian" even though independent Ukraine didn't exist at that time. I always knew where we came from.
Smug nepo baby hire = American Meritocracy!! Like Serge Schmemann at NYT, whose father was Tsarist Orthodox aristocracy AND a bigwig at VOA who was also Solzhenitsyn’s American patron & got a half page obit in the Times—but I’m sure young Serge got his leg up on skill, not connections (Tucker too)
February 4, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Smug nepo baby hire = American Meritocracy!! Like Serge Schmemann at NYT, whose father was Tsarist Orthodox aristocracy AND a bigwig at VOA who was also Solzhenitsyn’s American patron & got a half page obit in the Times—but I’m sure young Serge got his leg up on skill, not connections (Tucker too)
"Unfortunately, history shows us that regardless of the era, Tsarist or otherwise, the lives of peasants killed or wounded in battle have never mattered to the masters of the Kremlin."
Hélas, l'Histoire nous montre que quelle que soit la période, tsariste ou pas, la peau des moujiks tués ou blessés au combat, n'a jamais compté pour les maitres du Kremlin.
united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
Russia Now Loses as Many Troops in One Month in Ukraine as the USSR Did in 10 Years in Afghanistan
Russia now loses as many, if not more, troops in a month in Ukraine than it did in 10 years in Afghanistan, with no protests at home.
united24media.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:05 PM
"Unfortunately, history shows us that regardless of the era, Tsarist or otherwise, the lives of peasants killed or wounded in battle have never mattered to the masters of the Kremlin."
There were guys like this infiltrating European courts in the 16th century, or the Winter Palace in Tsarist Russia. Real throwback Elizabethan intriguer behaviour.
Something I can’t quite a see about Epstein is: is there anyone else like him? Even bracketing for a moment the monstrous systematic sex crimes, are there lots of super rich dudes who are just constantly emailing and texting and socializing with a who’s who of the elite or was he unique ?
February 4, 2026 at 8:34 AM
There were guys like this infiltrating European courts in the 16th century, or the Winter Palace in Tsarist Russia. Real throwback Elizabethan intriguer behaviour.
Tsarist Russia: first Bolshevik revolution of 1905 failed miserably.
Lenin got to power only after the collapse of Kerensky's provisional government (a good example of brittle victory), with Russia's armed forces too exhausted after the defeat in WWI to defend the Tsardom.
Lenin got to power only after the collapse of Kerensky's provisional government (a good example of brittle victory), with Russia's armed forces too exhausted after the defeat in WWI to defend the Tsardom.
February 4, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Tsarist Russia: first Bolshevik revolution of 1905 failed miserably.
Lenin got to power only after the collapse of Kerensky's provisional government (a good example of brittle victory), with Russia's armed forces too exhausted after the defeat in WWI to defend the Tsardom.
Lenin got to power only after the collapse of Kerensky's provisional government (a good example of brittle victory), with Russia's armed forces too exhausted after the defeat in WWI to defend the Tsardom.
Soviet Union, Apartheid South Africa, Francoist Spain, Shah's Iran, Tsarist Russia, East Germany, Portuguese Estado Novo, Argentine Military Junta, Romania under Ceaușescu, Indonesia under Suharto, all excellent examples you should get education on (do not self educate, you will learn nothing).
February 4, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Soviet Union, Apartheid South Africa, Francoist Spain, Shah's Iran, Tsarist Russia, East Germany, Portuguese Estado Novo, Argentine Military Junta, Romania under Ceaușescu, Indonesia under Suharto, all excellent examples you should get education on (do not self educate, you will learn nothing).
One of the biggest reasons the Hitler analogy breaks down hard is that the vast bulk of Jews killed in the Shoah were not from Germany, and most of them lived in interwar Poland and the USSR in the former Tsarist Pale.
aboutholocaust.org/en/facts/wer...
aboutholocaust.org/en/facts/wer...
Were all Jews who died in the Holocaust German? :: About Holocaust
Not all Jews who died during the Holocaust were German.
aboutholocaust.org
February 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
One of the biggest reasons the Hitler analogy breaks down hard is that the vast bulk of Jews killed in the Shoah were not from Germany, and most of them lived in interwar Poland and the USSR in the former Tsarist Pale.
aboutholocaust.org/en/facts/wer...
aboutholocaust.org/en/facts/wer...
Dad’s side is native so America came to them, Mom’s side is Tsarist Russia was such a shithole Appalachian Ohio was an improvement over Kaunas.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Dad’s side is native so America came to them, Mom’s side is Tsarist Russia was such a shithole Appalachian Ohio was an improvement over Kaunas.
Dad’s side - Followed Baron von Braunfels to Texas.
Mom’s side - Tsarist Russia sucked, especially for Jews.
Mom’s side - Tsarist Russia sucked, especially for Jews.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Dad’s side - Followed Baron von Braunfels to Texas.
Mom’s side - Tsarist Russia sucked, especially for Jews.
Mom’s side - Tsarist Russia sucked, especially for Jews.
Economic opportunity, shifting borders, and tsarist pogroms
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Economic opportunity, shifting borders, and tsarist pogroms
The Bolshevik Revolution stunned the SRs because how could the workers of Russia successfully organize and operate without they, the noble, brilliant SRs? They didn't tell the workers to rebel, so how could they have done so?
Which led to them screaming "foreign operation" faster than a tsarist.
Which led to them screaming "foreign operation" faster than a tsarist.
No offense but if anything MN puts the lie to the idea that popular resistance takes a bunch of time and preparation by established activists who are allegedly quietly building goodwill. Mostly I see those people upset that it's succeeding and trying to gatekeep the normal people out of it
February 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The Bolshevik Revolution stunned the SRs because how could the workers of Russia successfully organize and operate without they, the noble, brilliant SRs? They didn't tell the workers to rebel, so how could they have done so?
Which led to them screaming "foreign operation" faster than a tsarist.
Which led to them screaming "foreign operation" faster than a tsarist.
And penetration by Tsarist secret police, all that shit.
Yeah, drama is not always about trivial things.
Yeah, drama is not always about trivial things.
February 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
And penetration by Tsarist secret police, all that shit.
Yeah, drama is not always about trivial things.
Yeah, drama is not always about trivial things.
On one side, escaping the pogroms. On the other side, running from the tsarist equivalent of the revenuers.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
On one side, escaping the pogroms. On the other side, running from the tsarist equivalent of the revenuers.
Dad's side is a similar mix of annoying religious fanatics and people on the wrong end of primogeniture.
Mom's side realized being a religious and ethnic minority in late-stage tsarist Russia was unlikely to turn out well.
Mom's side realized being a religious and ethnic minority in late-stage tsarist Russia was unlikely to turn out well.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Dad's side is a similar mix of annoying religious fanatics and people on the wrong end of primogeniture.
Mom's side realized being a religious and ethnic minority in late-stage tsarist Russia was unlikely to turn out well.
Mom's side realized being a religious and ethnic minority in late-stage tsarist Russia was unlikely to turn out well.
Russia’s self declared destiny, be it in Tsarist, Soviet or post Soviet times, has been to use territorial expansion as a distraction from the failure of the regime to use their vast natural resources to provide adequately for their citizens and to create a culture to be proud not ashamed of.
February 3, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Russia’s self declared destiny, be it in Tsarist, Soviet or post Soviet times, has been to use territorial expansion as a distraction from the failure of the regime to use their vast natural resources to provide adequately for their citizens and to create a culture to be proud not ashamed of.
Father's side was so against William of Orange taking the crown they got kicked out of England and wound up in the US (after getting kicked out of other European countries)
Mom's side was escaping Tsarist pogroms
Mom's side was escaping Tsarist pogroms
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Father's side was so against William of Orange taking the crown they got kicked out of England and wound up in the US (after getting kicked out of other European countries)
Mom's side was escaping Tsarist pogroms
Mom's side was escaping Tsarist pogroms