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David, Host of The Cold War

@coldwarhost.bsky.social

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Host of the Cold War Channel in YouTube. Independent Historian 20th Century, military, and Soviet and Post-Soviet spaces. Lifetime Spurs sufferer/supporter. He/him History exists in shades of grey and yet so many seek only black or white

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · Aug 3

So, this has been a lot of fun, and really good for my thought process on a bunch of things. I will add a few more probably as they occur to me but I am not going to hit 200+ posts, I apologize.

Please do consider supporting us (The Cold War Channel) on YouTube and/or Patreon!

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · Aug 1

OK, what the hell. I'll do this until i get bored or just run out of ideas:

1 Like = 1 Cold War opinion. Spiciness may vary.

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 4h

Wasn't raking the forest Trump's suggestion on preventing forest fires?

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 6h

In English OR Spanish, tbh

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 6h

The sullen looking guy in the Jays ball cap walking in with his gf/wife is hilarious to me

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 6h

An evening at the opera...Gounod's Romeo and Juliette, performed by @canadianopera.bsky.social

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 6h

I actually grew up in Ottawa. Which also has no T's in it 😅

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 6h

Toronto.

There is only one T in that word, you know.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 6h

An evening at the opera...Gounod's Romeo and Juliette, performed by @canadianopera.bsky.social

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 7h

It's just so...disconnected?

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 7h

YT Comments...left on a video about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

I don't even know what to say...

It Amazing How Ignorant The Deamonrat Useful Idiots in America Are ! They Have No Idea, How Evil & Brutal Communism is, The Education (INDOCTRINATION) System Teaches Nothing About This or the 1968 Czechoslovakia Russian Invasion !

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 17h

Tomorrow at 19:00BST I’ll be on @ww2tv.bsky.social having a chat with Woody about Jungle Commandos and answering your questions! So if there’s something you want to know about the Third Arakan and/or the book, now is your chance to ask! ☺️

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 9h

these fucking cowards. not that I am at all shocked.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 11h

Grad School.

Great as a pejorative, right?

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 12h

report this pilot on-sight!

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 14h

Pholded Phantom...with enough thrust, even a brick can fly

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 16h

Reminds me of this, from Parks and Rec:

(good luck!)

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 16h

YT Comments...the irony is of course that this vile, racist POS is actually correct.

"Its everyone else’s fault Jews get exiled from every host nation they are apart of. Those darn antisemites"

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 16h

Good Morning PM @mark-carney.bsky.social,

We are still waiting for the F-35 report. You campaigned on the review of defense procurement but your delays on this matter, coupled with your rather sycophantic behavior at the WH, are calling your desires into question.

Update, please.

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 17h

i'm just seeing that right now. *phew*

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 17h

Everyone in their place and in their place they shall remain.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 17h

For anybody interested in a closer look at the publication of Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and it's relationship to the thaw, please be sure to watch our video on the subject!

youtu.be/F_iIHeXyfv4

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 17h

In 1969, he was expelled from the Writers Union and by the time he was finally expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 at which time he was presented with his 1970 award.

Solzhenitsyn was a vocal critic of the USSR and become an ardent Russian nationalist following the collapse of the USSR.

David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 17h

including "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch", "The First Circle" and "Cancer Ward".

Solzhenitsyn's work, published publicly with the personal approval of Khrushchev, demonstrated the thaw that was going on in Soviet society but one which ended almost as soon as it began.

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 17h

sentenced to 8 years in a labour camp under Article 58 of the criminal code; he had written critically of Stalin's conduct of the war in a private letter. His eight years in the camp system and his undiagnosed cancer would be used in his later written work

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 17h

OTD - October 8 1970 Aleksander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".

Solzhenitsyn, a decorated artillery officer during the Second World War, was arrested and

B&W, a middle aged man, thinning dark hair, beard but no moustache

A man in a tuxedo in a hall with other men in tuxedo's receiving a Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize Diploma given to Solzhenitsyn

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit, not Dolly...not now :(

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW2T...

Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (Live)

YouTube video by ShoutFactoryVEVO

www.youtube.com

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