I have a memory of President Reagan making a speech in which he compared the freedom of movement that Americans enjoyed to what happened in the Soviet Union. If I remember correctly, he said something about Americans not needing to show their papers everywhere they went. Can anyone point me to a speech he made where he said something like that? My searches online haven't come up with anything so far. #RonaldReagan #FreedomOfMovement #PapersPlease #SovietUnion
Charlie Stross
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⚔️ RUSSIAN WAR IN UKRAINE, DAY 1418: COUNTDOWN OVER
Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now longer than #WW2 for the #USSR
In the same time the USSR reached #Berlin, Russia has reached #Pokvrosk from #Donetsk, 60 km by car
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Duration of the War in Ukraine:
February 24th 2022 - Ongoing
To date: 3 years 10 months 17 days
Duration of WW2 for the Soviet Union
June 22nd 1941 - May 9th 1945
Total: 3 years 10 months 17 days
RUSSIAN WAR IN UKRAINE:
A COUNTDOWN COMPARISON
Duration of WW2 for the Soviet Union:
June 22nd 1941 - May 9th 1945
Total: 3 years 10 months 17 days
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Duration of the full scale War in Ukraine for russia:
February 24th 2022 - Ongoing
To date: 3 years 9 months 17 days
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Duration of WW2 for the USA:
December 7th 1941 - September 2nd 1945
Total: 3 years 8 months 26 days
#Ukrainerussiawar #Ukraine #russia #NAFO #WW2 #SovietUnion #USA
⚔️ RUSSIAN WAR IN UKRAINE, DAY 1418: COUNTDOWN OVER
Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now longer than #WW2 for the #USSR
In the same time the USSR reached #Berlin, Russia has reached #Pokvrosk from #Donetsk, 60 km by car
🇷🇺
Duration of the War in Ukraine:
February 24th 2022 - Ongoing
To date: 3 years 10 months 17 days
Duration of WW2 for the Soviet Union
June 22nd 1941 - May 9th 1945
Total: 3 years 10 months 17 days
Shauna GM
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34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991
Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing
Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism
Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:
Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella
We must defeat #plutocracy in the West
The Soviet way is not the way
Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay
34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991
Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing
Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism
Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:
Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella
We must defeat #plutocracy in the West
The Soviet way is not the way
Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay
Trump now says that Venezuela has stolen their land from the United States, and it needs to be "returned".
This will be Trump's Vietnam.
When the US fought the Viet Cong, the population of North Vietnam was 18 million. The population of Venezuela is 31 million. They have Su-30 fighter jets, a military of 337,000 soldiers, and they can mobilize 617,000 more soldiers every year.
Venezuela is three times the size of Vietnam
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Seventy or so years ago during the negotiations that led to the Austrian State Treaty the issue of the control and ownership of oilfields in the zone then occupied by the #Sovietunion came up. These had been seized as #enemyproperty in 1945. The #us successfully insisted that they be returned to the ownership of the Austrian state, That was the #us that once commanded moral respect and possessed soft power - despite the best efforts of people like #roycohn . What a contrast!
If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wants more industries to support his plan to eliminate the sugar substitute, people must first understand the schemes that led to this sticky situation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/11/world/americas-corn-syrup-addiction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #richardnixon #robertfkennedyjr #geraldford #jimmycarter #yoshiyukitakasaki #archerdanielsmidlands #jmsmucker #cocacola #cornysyrup #sugar #sovietunion
RUSSIAN WAR IN UKRAINE:
A COUNTDOWN COMPARISON
Duration of WW2 for the Soviet Union:
June 22nd 1941 - May 9th 1945
Total: 3 years 10 months 17 days
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Duration of the full scale War in Ukraine for russia:
February 24th 2022 - Ongoing
To date: 3 years 9 months 17 days
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Duration of WW2 for the USA:
December 7th 1941 - September 2nd 1945
Total: 3 years 8 months 26 days
#Ukrainerussiawar #Ukraine #russia #NAFO #WW2 #SovietUnion #USA
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has vowed to realize the early restart of visits to graves on Russian-controlled northwestern Pacific islands by former Japanese residents of the islets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/japan/politics/takaichi-grave-visits-restart-northern-territories/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sanaetakaichi #hokkaido #russia #russiajapanrelations #northernterritories #sovietunion #wwii
A resident of Tsushima, Aichi Prefecture, has translated into English and published her late grandfather’s notes recounting his experience as a student soldier serving in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/24/japan/society/english-book-student-soldier/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #wwii #books #aichi #sovietunion #imperialjapanesearmy
The Soviet Union sinking of three Japanese ships near Hokkaido a week after World War II ended was a brutal final act made all the more significant because of one of history's greatest "what if" questions surrounding it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/01/japan/hokkaido-invasion-soviet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #sovietunion #wwii#rumoi #us
Under the security alliance with the United States, Japan has served as a bulwark against an expansion of the Soviet communist bloc and China's hegemonic ambitions since the end of World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/japan/politics/bulwark-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sovietunion #us #china #usjapanrelations #atomicbombings #wwii
Vladimir Putin has been rehabilitating Josef Stalin for more than two decades — and reviving some of the worst elements of the Soviet era in the process. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/03/world/glory-to-stalin/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #communistparty #russia#nikitakhrushchev #josefstalin #vladimirputin #sovietunion
An 87-year-old Japanese woman has been advocating the importance of peace by recounting her harrowing return to Japan from former Manchuria, now northeastern China, through a "kamishibai" picture story show. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/japan/manchuria-experience-story/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #manchuria #china #wwii #sovietunion
@maridonkers you only have to look at people in charge of NATO which you evidently never have
@yogthos Yes, it's true some people in charge of #NATO early on had a past in the German army. But this was right after the war, and the main idea was to bring West Germany into the group to stand strong against the #SovietUnion . They were picked for their military knowledge, not for their old loyalties. NATO has changed a lot since then, and this old history doesn't show what NATO is today.
Former residents of islands off the coast of Hokkaido, driven off by a Soviet invasion at the end of World War II, want the government to convince Russia to allow them to visit their ancestral grave sites on the islands. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/japan/northern-territories-grave/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #russia #russiajapanrelations #sovietunion #wwii #kunashiri #etorofu #shikotan #habomai #northernterritories