The bear is back – mapping Russian revanchism
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in defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics Tags: economics of borders, maps, Russia
.@Lorde #BDS mapping Russian revanchism
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in defence economics, economic history, Music Tags: economics of borders, Israel, political correctness, Russia
Territorial expansion of Russia (750 – 2014)
06 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: maps, Russia
Russian cops don’t mess about.
18 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of media and culture Tags: Russia
The Most Incredible Russian Dashcam Video
16 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, transport economics Tags: Darwin awards, road safety, Russia
Stalin: Inside the Terror
06 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: autocracy, Russia, Stalin, USSR
The Soviet Union’s flag came down for the last time today 1991
26 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: collapse of communism, fall of the USSR, Russia, unanticipated revolutions
Russia has a serious shortage of men
05 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, population economics Tags: ageing society, alcoholism, Russia, sex-ratios
Who has gained ground after the Russian air strikes?
01 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Middle-East politics, Russia, Syria, war on terror
Russian Expansion, 1533-1894
06 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: age of empires, colonisation, Russia
Russian Expansion, 1533-1894. http://t.co/Y7I7RhD03R—
History Facts 247 (@historyfacts247) October 04, 2015
Hitler and Stalin completed their conquest of Poland today 1939
18 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Nazi collaborators, Poland, Russia, Stalin, World War II
HT: Tom Palmer
How Senator Bilyk’s Dad found paradise in Australia @Catbilyk
11 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - Australia, war and peace Tags: Australia, economics of migration, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, World War II
An old Uni mate’s dad was rounded up by the Nazis in the Polish Ukraine in 1941 and carted off as a slave in factories in Germany. He survived the war. He ended up in a refugee camp. He met and married a Dutch lass.
He did not want to go back to the Ukraine because that part of the Ukraine was now Russian under Stalin. That part of the Ukraine was Polish before the war.
Soviet post-war expansion resulted in border changes, the creation of a Communist Bloc & the start of the Cold War. http://t.co/0Os3EPp6Th—
History Facts 247 (@historyfacts247) August 17, 2015
Australia was the first country to accept them as refugees. He raised a family in Tasmania, working in a factory to support them.
I knew one of his two sons who became economists both at the University of Tasmania and in Canberra. One of his daughter’s was elected to the Australian Senate in the 2007 general election.
After such a rough start in life, my old mate’s dad must regard Australia as paradise for him, his wife and their family.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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