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EngineOfCreation's avatar

I'm very much loking forward to this substack. Your twitter threads have been one eye-opener after another.

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Bryan L's avatar

I've been reading your Twitter feed and trying to share it with others, but most of them don't have Twitter and don't want to sign up and don't know how to get around the blocking "sign up please" dialog box. It would be awesome if you could "unroll" all of your threads here.

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myles's avatar

Use nitter.net (there are different instances of it - google) no login required

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Bryan L's avatar

The point is, *I* figured out how to do it, but I know a lot of people who are violently opposed to Twitter as such. I'd still like to be able to show them Kamil's content.

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Pif's avatar

Hi, you can use @threadreaderapp and type unroll in comments and it will provide a link of the unrolled thread like an article. It's how I share the very useful info from these threads to my non-Twitter friends. They seem happy with our arrangement :)

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Vicki Meagher's avatar

Most or all of the threads have been put into threads that are accessible to anyone. I've been posting them on my Facebook page.

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Taavi T's avatar

Love your skill of writing a difficult subject into a compact and easy to understand form.

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Oltion's avatar

Huge respect for you

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hiidz0r's avatar

Each and every thread and long post I read from you is utterly incredible and goes beyond thorough into areas I kinda knew about, but also some that I had no clue about ie. this article. It's awesome understanding what makes russia tick.

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RandoCommenter's avatar

I learned sooo much from this piece, a lot of history that is generally neglected in curricula. Manyyyyy thanks! :v

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Jack Pearson's avatar

+ 1 for adding your twitter threads to your Substack. Your writing on Russia / Ukraine is great but twitter isnt the ideal platform.

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Nickolas_B's avatar

Неймовірно глибока та проаналізована публікація. Продовжуй в цьому ж дусі!

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Yuhan's avatar

Great one, many thanks. Respect from China. One typo though - Taiping rebellion not Taping (太平天国)

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BernSB's avatar

Great stuff. Your Twitter is essential reading for the war. Thanks a bunch.

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Василиса А's avatar

Спасибо большое за вашу работу. Я о вас узнала из интервью с Юлией Латыниной и теперь регулярно читаю ваш Твиттер и телеграмм канал. Я также русский эмигрант проживающий в США. Я рада что вы с нами. У вас большое будущее!

Я надеюсь вас будут приглашать на интервью наши телевизионные каналы и газеты. Здесь не полностью понимают Россию и ваши знания очень пригодятся в грамотном разруливании ситуации в Украине. Я надеюсь советники президента Байдена понимают то о чем вы пишите в своём твиттере.

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Ignacio MH's avatar

Great , thanks

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Candide III's avatar

> The Neva delta would be a natural spot for that. And yet, this ‘rotten swamp’ as it was called by local Finnics was a terrible place to build a city.

This is a popular tale in Russian popular history (or national myth-making, same thing) and I'd bought into it too. However it turns out that the facts are a little different. The Neva delta was such a natural spot that during all of XVII c. there existed a sizeable Swedish town (Nien) and fortress (Nienschantz) within what by early XIX c. was city limits of St. Petersburg (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ниеншанц). The town was burned down by retreating Swedes during the Northern War, but parts of the fortress were reused by the Russians, and the villas of local Swedish nobles and rich people were reportedly taken over by high ranking Russian settlers. The high mortality of St. Petersburg construction workers is likely better explained by the typical Russian approach to forced labor, later exemplified in Soviet labor camps.

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MB's avatar

On that 1682 assessment map I did not see Arkhangelsk. Were Arkhangelsk citizens exempt?

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Christian Nicolaisen's avatar

Very well written!

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dvasya's avatar

typo: "contagious" -> "contiguous" :)

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