the division is between postcommunist, non-postcommunist but the beaches are shit, and non-postcommunist but the beaches rock
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
the division is between postcommunist, non-postcommunist but the beaches are shit, and non-postcommunist but the beaches rock
1956: Hungary's communist leaders phone Moscow for help
2026: Hungary's postcommunist leaders phone Moscow for help
2026: Hungary's postcommunist leaders phone Moscow for help
💥Moscow has sent a task team to interfere in Hungary's April 2026 elections, @vsquare.bsky.social has learned from multiple European national security sources. The US has also shared intelligence with allies on the GRU-linked task force overseen by Sergei Kiriyenko. vsquare.org/putins-gru-l...
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Moscow has dispatched a team to Budapest to interfere in Hungary's April 2026 parliamentary elections, VSquare has learned from multiple European national security sources. The operation, overseen by ...
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March 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
1956: Hungary's communist leaders phone Moscow for help
2026: Hungary's postcommunist leaders phone Moscow for help
2026: Hungary's postcommunist leaders phone Moscow for help
Genuinely, the best analogue to what you are experiencing is a typical postcommunist party.
May 8, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Genuinely, the best analogue to what you are experiencing is a typical postcommunist party.
Socialistinis Liaudies Frontas are retrocommunists of the most grotesque form, but they are not postcommunist. They are cunts, but they are not postcommunist.
March 21, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Socialistinis Liaudies Frontas are retrocommunists of the most grotesque form, but they are not postcommunist. They are cunts, but they are not postcommunist.
Postcommunist here means the bloc proper. Former Yugoslavia is basically Southern Europe.
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Postcommunist here means the bloc proper. Former Yugoslavia is basically Southern Europe.
Also, they're technically /not/ a postcommunist party.
March 21, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Also, they're technically /not/ a postcommunist party.
Allow me to propose a theoretical typology of kinds of postcommunist party in the former "socialist world":
1. Became "social democrats."
2. Became ethnoreligious extremists.
3. Became an ideologyless new ruling party of power.
4. Retrocommunists. This overlaps heavily with 2, believe it or not.
1. Became "social democrats."
2. Became ethnoreligious extremists.
3. Became an ideologyless new ruling party of power.
4. Retrocommunists. This overlaps heavily with 2, believe it or not.
March 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Allow me to propose a theoretical typology of kinds of postcommunist party in the former "socialist world":
1. Became "social democrats."
2. Became ethnoreligious extremists.
3. Became an ideologyless new ruling party of power.
4. Retrocommunists. This overlaps heavily with 2, believe it or not.
1. Became "social democrats."
2. Became ethnoreligious extremists.
3. Became an ideologyless new ruling party of power.
4. Retrocommunists. This overlaps heavily with 2, believe it or not.
Opposition movements elsewhere have brought down competitive authoritarian regimes by leaning into traditional get-out-the-vote tactics despite the deck being stacked against them—-and then calling out irregularities afterward. See Bunce and Wolchik’s work: www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
February 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Opposition movements elsewhere have brought down competitive authoritarian regimes by leaning into traditional get-out-the-vote tactics despite the deck being stacked against them—-and then calling out irregularities afterward. See Bunce and Wolchik’s work: www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
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September 26, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Many congratulations to @kaszyma.bsky.social, whose book Translation Multiples has been longlisted for The Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! Her illuminating work demonstrates that translation is neither a transparent medium nor a secondary form of literature.
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deeply cracked up by the knowledge that apparently at some point in the last two years what used to be the postcommunist, pro-Russian Estonian United Left Party was entryist'ed en masse and usurped by non-vatniks
Left Alliance of Estonia - Wikipedia
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August 12, 2026 at 11:45 AM
deeply cracked up by the knowledge that apparently at some point in the last two years what used to be the postcommunist, pro-Russian Estonian United Left Party was entryist'ed en masse and usurped by non-vatniks
Can voters oust an autocrat? @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Hungary, where the fate of Viktor Orbán will be decided this weekend in one of the most important elections in the history of postcommunist Europe.
Viktor Orbán Could Actually Lose
The Hungarian leader faces an energized opposition—and questions about whether he would accept defeat.
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April 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Can voters oust an autocrat? @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Hungary, where the fate of Viktor Orbán will be decided this weekend in one of the most important elections in the history of postcommunist Europe.
Can voters oust an autocrat? @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Hungary, where the fate of Viktor Orbán will be decided this weekend in one of the most important elections in the history of postcommunist Europe.
Viktor Orbán Could Actually Lose
The Hungarian leader faces an energized opposition—and questions about whether he would accept defeat.
bit.ly
April 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Can voters oust an autocrat? @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Hungary, where the fate of Viktor Orbán will be decided this weekend in one of the most important elections in the history of postcommunist Europe.
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May 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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All the red scare russophobia over the past sixty years and we're in a full blown oligarchy like 90's postcommunist russia. you gotta laugh. YOU GOTTA LAUGH.
November 6, 2024 at 4:12 PM
All the red scare russophobia over the past sixty years and we're in a full blown oligarchy like 90's postcommunist russia. you gotta laugh. YOU GOTTA LAUGH.
*the reason they refuse to acknowledge this is because an honest reading of the history of postcommunist russia would demonstrate pretty obviously how it was not a break but an evolution of the soviet system, a logical consequence of its own bad choices
June 25, 2026 at 12:26 PM
*the reason they refuse to acknowledge this is because an honest reading of the history of postcommunist russia would demonstrate pretty obviously how it was not a break but an evolution of the soviet system, a logical consequence of its own bad choices
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November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Also it’s not as if, even for formerly communist states that joined the EU (and on the other hand former Soviet republics), we haven’t also seen the rise of the far right and democratic backsliding arising at least partly from their own postcommunist economic settlements.
September 27, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Also it’s not as if, even for formerly communist states that joined the EU (and on the other hand former Soviet republics), we haven’t also seen the rise of the far right and democratic backsliding arising at least partly from their own postcommunist economic settlements.
Postcommunist party but without ever actually having communism would be the sort of silly thing we'd get up to now that you mention it.
May 8, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Postcommunist party but without ever actually having communism would be the sort of silly thing we'd get up to now that you mention it.
It's the postcommunist flag but I'm just going to delete--nay, purge--this chat from my history and move on
April 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
It's the postcommunist flag but I'm just going to delete--nay, purge--this chat from my history and move on
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October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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To be clear, this typology /only/ applies to the direct successors of former ruling Communist Parties. It does not apply to dissident socdems (ČSSD, LSDLP, LSDP pre-merger with postcommunist LDDP, PPS) which were refounded by lefty anticommunists
March 21, 2026 at 2:39 PM
To be clear, this typology /only/ applies to the direct successors of former ruling Communist Parties. It does not apply to dissident socdems (ČSSD, LSDLP, LSDP pre-merger with postcommunist LDDP, PPS) which were refounded by lefty anticommunists
Among the postcommunist EU member states, all but Slovenia, Croatia, and Latvia show the 🟥 vs 🟨, authoritarian left vs libertarian right pattern. The only non-postcommunist member state with that pattern is Malta. The rest show the 🟦 vs 🟩, authoritarian right vs libertarian left pattern.
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March 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Among the postcommunist EU member states, all but Slovenia, Croatia, and Latvia show the 🟥 vs 🟨, authoritarian left vs libertarian right pattern. The only non-postcommunist member state with that pattern is Malta. The rest show the 🟦 vs 🟩, authoritarian right vs libertarian left pattern.
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only one clintonite from that era not becoming a hitlerite because he got postcommunist legacy and raging alcoholism he had to get through afterwards. GOAT
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
only one clintonite from that era not becoming a hitlerite because he got postcommunist legacy and raging alcoholism he had to get through afterwards. GOAT