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As well, since 1945, the USSR had a spy ring within Yugoslavia[128] and Stalin attempted to assassinate Tito several times. Stalin remarked "I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito".[129] However, these assassinations would fail, and Tito would write back to Stalin "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."[130] Yugoslavia would go on to become one of the main founders and leaders the Non-Aligned Movement.[131]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_change#1948%E2%80%931949:_Yugoslavia

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Its unexpected independence resulted from a boundary error in a land sale by Pope Eugene IV to the Republic of Florence. Due to confusion over two streams named "Rio" a strip of land became terra nullius.

Golden Turquoise Earrings from Tillya Tepe Tomb (Afghanistan)
Dating back to the 1st century BCE-1st century CE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillya_Tepe

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Avi-ram Tzoreff in conversation with Georges Khalil about his new book on R. Binyamin, his take on binationalism, (counter-)zionism and how this relates to current historiographical and political debates within Israel.

Here is a call for papers for a special issue of In the Same Sea, a project that “advances the hypothesis that the Lesser Antilles were decisively shaped by inter-island connections that transformed separate islands into a common world of slavery and freedom.” This project, based at the University of Copenhagen, has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2025.

I know that the violence today, and the occupation of which it is part, has a history and a politics which are man-made and can thus be unmade.

Watch this video before visiting the European Middle Ages. SUGGESTED READING • Steven A. Epstein, An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University...

In your opinion, which world war was worse and why do you believe this?

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A source: https://www.tiktok.com/@rl.magpie/video/7304599726693960992

currently, there are two different kbin magazines (=groups/communities) on history which slightly differ in their scraping habits:

(a) https://kbin.social/m/history/microblog/newest > has a soft spot for anything cinema, hence a little filmi for some reason

(b) https://fedia.io/m/history/microblog/newest > has a penchant for the history of both punk music and classical music (admittedly, i love this combination 😁)

additionally, both kbin magazines share an anticolonial stance

so if you like to delve into history on the fedi, i recommend taking a look at both magazines

disclaimer: i own both magazines

Louis Armstrong and his wife, Egypt 1961

A source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/92z44h/louis_armstrong_plays_for_his_wife_in_front_of/

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He was pardoned in 1781 after a letter was written arguing that, as a slave, he was not a citizen and thus could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance.

In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery

Letter from church source in anti-Hitler resistance reporting 6,000 daily killings undercuts Vatican’s claims of lack of knowledge

Rumors and disinformation sparked the Kanto Massacre in the wake of the Kanto Earthquake. Today, denialism continues to dishonor the victims.