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Jana Zikmundova

@jzk55.bsky.social

"Andropov was so pleased with how Operation Progress had helped the Soviets manage dissent in Prague that he expanded it to cover the whole socialist bloc, where short-term missions continued for the next two decades." This has been expanded since, now including the #US.
#WhyHistoryMatters 🇨🇿

Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7.bsky.social · Apr 20

“Carpet. Plane. Siberia.”

An adapted short extract from my new book The Illegals: on how the KGB used its deep cover spies to get close to the leading lights of the Prague Spring.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

www.theguardian.com

April 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM

D. Mann

@sapiencedmann.bsky.social

#AttilaTheHun #DonaldTrump #RuthlessRulers #HistoryTok #PoliticalHistory #PowerAndPolitics #GreatManTheory #WisdomGuardians #MaggieHaberman #JonathanSwan #Myth #Man #PoliticalPsychology #WhyHistoryMatters

August 26, 2026 at 1:24 PM

BloomingLiberty

@bloomingrage.bsky.social

Fascism 101:

It’s a government system where one leader has all the power, silencing others' voices and controlling everything. Democracy? Not! They have the power.

Why learn about fascism?

When one person has all the power, others don’t get a chance. Freedom’s important.

#WhyHistoryMatters

November 12, 2024 at 1:48 PM

The Social History Archive

@socialhistarchive.bsky.social

Read the latest blog from @ihr.bsky.social - ''Advocating for 'History by Doing History'. It mentions our partnership - having just launched #AppliedHistoryFellowships

blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

#DoingHistory #WhyHistoryMatters #SkillsForOurTimes #HistoryEverywhere #AcademicSky

Advocating for History by Doing History - On History

This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...

blog.history.ac.uk

December 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Sacristy Press

@sacristypress.bsky.social

The experiences of English Benedictine nuns after the French Revolution speak powerfully to today’s debates about migration, belonging, and resilience.
A timely historical lens for contemporary questions.
#RefugeeHistory #ReligionAndSociety #WhyHistoryMatters