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love how guy burgess is just called guy. like. his parents were so fucking right. he is literally such a guy

#guy burgess

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Okay read through your whole blog last night and was delighted. It prompted me to do some Wikipedia digging and like how did Yezhov end up with the nickname blackberry??? Like what???

it's a play on his last name! in Russian, the word for "blackberry" is eжевика. Yezhov's last name in Russian would be spelled Ежoв, which makes the similarity clearer. "yezevika" and "yezhov", so it's a play on words!

he was also called the Iron Hedgehog lmao, likely because of his ruthlessness (the iron) and another play on his last name (the Russian for hedgehog is еж). boy had a versatile last name.

#nikolai yezhov #anon #asks

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i say this as someone who researches this subject extensively: spying really is, truly and undeniably, an inherently homosexual act

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turnlefist knocking me out again

#i absolutely hate this. thanks.

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#nikolai yezhov #shitpost

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the children are meant to represent the next generation and the ongoing survival of communism but regardless this is still really fuckin gay

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you’re not a ghoul. or a goblin. nor are you feral. you are just devastatingly unfuckable

#stalin to yezhov circa 1939

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perpetually haunted by many of the things mr montefiore said in red tsar but in terms of phrases that just utterly blindsided me “Stalin’s feline charms” is still very high on the list

#montefiore spent WAY too much time waxing poetic about stalin in this book tbh #like. simon. you good? #joseph stalin

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this is my linen closet, *shows you some towels* and this is my lenin closet *shows you communist propaganda*

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this is literally it this is all they did and that’s how elliott never noticed philby was a big huge traitor 

im in a dd/dd relationship and we just fucking whip our bed with our belts every night before passing out 

#kim philby #nick elliott #shitpost

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feel that i should make it very clear that this is my meme blog i created so i didn’t spam my main blog with absolutely indecipherable bullshit and that while i obviously research history critically in my studies i’m here in my spare time to share my interests in an accessible and (hopefully) entertaining way. i’m not here to debate everyone on political theory. if ur here to vibe come inside if you’re here to yell please listen to ra ra rasputin (1978) by boney m and maybe you’ll calm down

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Do you ever post about spies and espionage relating to other nations than Nazi Germany or ussr

pretty sure i’ve never posted anything about nazi germany on here; i haven’t done much research into their secret police or spies at all if i’m honest. i have a reference to it in a post about british espionage in the occupied channel islands in wwii (the only british soil ever occupied by nazis which is covered tf up to this day bc that was the first i heard of it!!) and a post about nazis getting their asses kicked by the red army and how it’s kind of depressing listening to red army choir bangers about it when you KNOW mass bloodshed could have been avoided if stalin hadn’t been one half of a whole clown but ANYWAY aside from that i don’t post about nazi germany and certainly there’s nothing about that country’s espionage. curious as to what gave you the impression i post about it to the same level as soviet stuff tbh.

i’m a soviet historian, so my research tends to focus on soviet espionage (especially against britain) and stalin’s secret police. however i’m also very interested in british espionage, the history of mi6, espionage during wwii, etc, and that’s actually what started me on this journey into hell in the first place. if you go back through my blog there’s a fair bit about british espionage, but of course i’m especially interested in the back-and-forth between britain and the ussr during the cold war. i’d say that the ussr and britain are my main areas of expertise and clownery. hell, the icon and header of my blog is british espionage themed, so i’m way down that rabbit hole.

#mailsurvivor #asks

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hi uh i stan your blog okay thanku for ur time

a very wise choice thank you i stan it too so we already have much in common!!

#trekkitytracks #asks

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me, pointing to where i specifically mentioned stalin’s idea of communism in the original post: yes we know

you: stalin is right and his idea of communism is the best way forward me, an intellectual: [in my unmarked mass grave where i was shot during the purges, and therefore cannot respond]

#i'm a soviet historian and a socialist of course i know this #also it's 2020 who DOESN'T know this #also are three of those sources randos gabbing on tumblr dot com??

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*russia coming 15 minutes late to the 1917 revolution holding a tsarbucks*

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*types while averting my eyes from this jezebel*

i’m reading this huge book about the 1930s purges and it has the absolute worst picture of stalin on its massive cover like no matter where i sit or how the book is angled his eyes are always on me and to make it worse he has this incredibly suggestive look in his eyes. every time i accidentally make eye contact with him i feel as though he’s sat beside me on the next bar stool and has just slid me a drink and is waiting for me to notice and catch his eyes and i know that if i accept the drink i accept everything else this temptress has in mind. i do not like it at all

#joseph stalin #shitpost

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i’m reading this huge book about the 1930s purges and it has the absolute worst picture of stalin on its massive cover like no matter where i sit or how the book is angled his eyes are always on me and to make it worse he has this incredibly suggestive look in his eyes. every time i accidentally make eye contact with him i feel as though he’s sat beside me on the next bar stool and has just slid me a drink and is waiting for me to notice and catch his eyes and i know that if i accept the drink i accept everything else this temptress has in mind. i do not like it at all

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