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Post-Soviet Nations and NATO

From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 82-84:As far as Russia was concerned, the victory of the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine was a ma

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Post-USSR Territorial Disputes

From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle p. 65:Territorial disputes are a hallmark of imperial disintegration, and the fall of the USSR was no e

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Ukraine's Economic Turnaround c. 2000

From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 56-57:In the fall of 1999, as Yeltsin was getting ready to step down and promote Putin as his succe

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Russian vs. Ukrainian Transitions, 1990s

From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 43-44:In Ukraine, as in Russia, the economy and public reaction to the dissolution of the USSR were

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Ending the Soviet Empire

From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 28, 31:In 1995, in his review of Matlock’s memoir, titled Autopsy on an Empire, Kennan wrote: “I fi

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Sunday Stamps - April 19, 2026

Welcome to Sunday Stamps and the week's theme of L. Lyrebird Australia first issued in 1937Lynx (Eurasian)USSR 1988, Zoo Relief FundLlama mother and young (a cria)Liberia 1971, UNICEF 25th anniversary

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USSR pedal bicycle “Raketa” v1.0

The classic children’s pedal bicycle “Raketa”, familiar to many from the times of the USSR. This mod recreates the legendary model with the utmost attention to detail – from the shape of the frame...

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Zygmunt Kwas, Kielce Boy Scout

Adapted from Muzeum Historii Kielc biography: Zygmunt Kwas (aka Kościelny) was born in Kielce on 18 February 1926. From 1937 to 1939, he belonged to the 12th Kielce Scout Troop, along with Wojtek Szcz

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Post-Soviet Nations and NATO

Post-USSR Territorial Disputes

Ukraine's Economic Turnaround c. 2000

Russian vs. Ukrainian Transitions, 1990s

Ending the Soviet Empire

Sunday Stamps - April 19, 2026

USSR pedal bicycle “Raketa” v1.0

Zygmunt Kwas, Kielce Boy Scout