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Timothy Snyder
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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1/3. This past Friday, 22 March, a horrifying terrorist attack took place in Crocus City Hall in Moscow. Islamic State plausibly claimed responsibility. Then Russian propaganda began to spin the story in the direction preferred by the Kremlin. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Moscow Terror (2)
The claim and the blame
2/3. Earlier that day, Russian authorities had designated international LGBT organizations as "terrorist." Also earlier that day, Russia had carried out massive terror attacks on Ukrainian cities.
Given the "warnings" quite possible they let it happen with prepared scenarios and gunmen running towards Ukraine, who would do that... It remains to be seen how active ISIS cells will be, which could be embarrassing... Agenda is set though.
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Timothy Snyder
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
9.7k followers15 following128 posts