The best Russian History books: Reddit reviews

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I implore anyone who is interested in this connection to read the recently released book 'Proof of Collusion'. I just got mine in the mail & read the first couple of chapters last night & they particularly focus on Trump's long & documented business history with the oligarchs & mobsters of Russia. It's disturbing to read, but very compelling. I am convinced that what Trump actually wanted was to be like the American version of a Russian oligarch.

People, if you haven't read Bill Browder's <em>Red Notice</em>, it's high time you do. This lead to the Magnitsky Act, which is one of the biggest things that Putin and Russia's oligarchs want removed.

If you think that any US citizen that Russia wants to "question" will come back the same person (or come back at all), you're deluding yourselves. Russia has repeatedly tried to get Browder arrested and sent to Russia using fraudulent Red Notices, which Interpol have repeatedly refused to honor because they're so obviously corrupt.

Russia wants Browder, and they'll use any means to get him. Sending Americans over to be "questions" gives the sham of an "investigation" they're running legitimacy.

Don't let them succeed.

If you haven't (this is directed at everyone, really), get Seth Abramson's Proof of Collusion. He's great on twitter and the book is fantastic. The reviews are practically all five stars:

https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Collusion-Trump-Betrayed-America/dp/1982116080

There’s a book about this, it seemed really interesting because the tiger stalked him for days I’m pretty sure.

Edit: found it https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049

This twitter thread by Seth Abramson, author of the book <em>Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America</em> is a real bombshell, in my opinion:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1064726398307315712.html

Also worth checking out his book: Red Notice. I listened to the audiobook and it was short but really entertaining and informative about all the shit that goes down in Russia

The Watergate investigation took much longer and was much less complicated. Read Seth Abramson’s new book, Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America.

This book just came out this week documenting with crazy amounts of annotations, just how deep the real Trump/Russia/other bad acting countries conspiracies/collusion go. Yet I doubt any of it will ever be discussed on r/conspiracy. Those people are truly looking down the wrong rabbit holes. It's like the twilight zone in there.

>The articles provide no proof

And here is the problem.

Trump supporters, because they are either fundamentally misinformed or are merely pretending to be, act as if life is an episode of CSI. Meaning that Trump must assuredly be innocent unless someone can produce a smoking gun to show them and wrap this all up within about 45 minutes, plus commercials.

The evidence for the collusion allegations are all around you, and in fact right at your fingertips if you care to look for it. But I get the sneaking suspicion you don't care to look, which is the basis for your demand that someone spoonfeed you the "proof" you only pretend to care about. As well as your misguided notion that the allegations are bunk unless someone can successfully change your mind.

I'm reading Seth Abramson's Proof of Collusion right now. It's pretty convincing and incredibly well-sourced.

The book <em>Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia</em> is a really excellent (if terrifying) look at the way that the media operated by Putin's authoritarian state has manipulated and brainwashed entire populations. And it was published a solid year before the 2016 election. It's a rough read but I think it's a book everyone in America should be familiar with.

Tigers are vengeful as well as thoughtful when it comes retribution and payback... Check this book out. It's a great read. I remember reading a part where a tiger brings a tribute to a character in the book because it figured out that person helped him out earlier.

you make it sound as if I personally take some EU funds. And you have a really condescending attitude. "You take our money, we helped you, so you must listen as we tell you". From my perspective (I am Czech), it was Germany and Russia who fucked my country up 80 years ago. One side Nazis killing slavic people because they were untermenschen, on the other side fucking USSR. If it were not for these two countries, communism would not have decimated eastern Europe. You need some history lessons

https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471

and nowadays we see history repeating itself. Gemany is no more nazistic and imperialistic, but it is spineless and enabling another fascist Regime, which is current Russia. Russia is again threatening other countries

Most days, I feel optimistic about the future of the country. It looks like Trump's stupidity and incompetence is going to be the undoing of his Post Office scam, and the country is turning against him.

Then I see that yet another QAnon qultist (and this time, a 9/11 denier!) won a GOP Primary for a red district, and is going to Congress in January.

Stupidity will be the death of this nation. We are headed to a future where Nothing is Real and Everything is Possible

Yes, everyone should pick up Browder's book, crazy crazy story

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/1476755744

Markov wasn't the only person this tiger ate. There's an excellent book about this incident, called The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. It's a fascinating read, and is full of information about the plight of tigers and other wildlife in the Russian Far East as well as human struggle for survival. Highly recommended.

This twitter thread by Seth Abramson, author of the book <em>Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America</em> is a real bombshell, in my opinion:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1064726398307315712.html

I just finished reading that book after Thanksgiving dinner this evening and now I can't sleep. It's information that everyone in America should know and I can't recommend it highly enough.

I'm not apologizing for him. His acceptance of Palin is a crucial step to why we are here now. I'm pointing out that of everyone in recent American politics, he's one of a significant few that did the literally one thing that has significantly angered putin. Read Red Notice [1], its insane the lengths Putin went to to punish Browder for unveiling his criminal antics and McCain was one of only a few that stood behind him (Browder).

You saying he's been completely asleep against Russian agents trying to take advantage of us is wrong by dint of this. However, Your underlying sentiment that he's not doing enough though isn't wrong. But we just have to be careful that we don't become so desirous of seeing things in black and white that we take on the stupider and purposefully ignorant aspects of the dumb right.

We should be able to see in nuance. We should still condemn but we shouldn't need to speak in grandiose terms of evil to make our point. The point is makeable while still being cognizant and not dismissive of the facts. The only people that need to bend facts and timebox peoples actions are people who don't have enough of truth on their side to make their point. We're not that and we don't need to be that to make the point that Republicans needed and need to do more.

[1] Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476755744/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IT.gBbEKYT9ZY

I highly recommend Bill Browder's book, aptly named Red Notice: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/1476755744/

It goes into great detail about his background, his investments in Russia and subsequent uncovering of widespread corruption, what happened to Sergei Magnitsky, and the process of getting the Magnitsky Act passed with the assistance of John McCain.

A thrilling, inspiring, sad and infuriating read.

Let's not forget all the Soviet soldiers summarily executed or sent to die in gulags for "political crimes," like being captured by the enemy, or retreating to save their own lives, or writing in private letters about the hardships of Soviet army life.

If you want to follow that path even further, read this book.

It's a journey through how Putin creates exactly the feeling you're experiencing to control Russia, how the strategy developed over time, and what it's like to live in Russia once truth died.

This book literally just came out this week that shows all of this evidence. Someone is already showing you the truth, it's just not the official Mueller report yet. There's an audio version too, or check at your local library. Everything is fully fact checked & annotated.

Thanks! Snyder is a great writer. Bloodlands is definitely worth the read -- it's a look at the mass killings under the Hitler and Stalin regimes. If that sounds like both-sides-ism or something, it's more like 'political mass murder' is itself the center of the story, often told from the point of view of its victims.

Believe it or not tigers are known for revenge kills and keeping grudges. This book details a very specific case of that. Amur tiger wounded by a poacher and he stalked him for days and even went to his house and destroyed everything in it and then waited for the the guy to come back and killed him too.

Time you should do some reading, my know it all friend. You can start here: https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049 The Tiger is a true story of how a pissed off tiger stalked and killed modern armed hunters:

Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous.

Read that book and come back here once you get a real idea just how scary a big cat can be. I hunt, and it even creeped me out.

Bill Browder's Red Notice is a great look into the world of how Russia in general is Cronyism/Oligarchy to the extreme. His experiences led to the Magnitsky Act in an attempt to counter some of this corruption on the world stage.

If all of this seems a bit crazy - trust me I understand.

These are the consequences of constantly eroding the public's trust in media. Right now, we need our media more than ever. They represent our best chance to hold Trump accountable.

Do your homework. Follow real new sources like Reuters, AP, BBC, NPR, New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Follow Seth Abrahmson and read his books. We must rebuild America's faith in our news media if we ever stand a chance at recovering from these dark times. The legit media sources are OUR #1 DEFENSE against either party choosing PARTY OVER COUNTRY.

Short and sweet: during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan we were sending a shitload of weapons to the Afghanis through Pakistan. The paki isi(their cia) pretty much gave everything to the taliban. The northern alliance got shit. The pakis (isi)and the talis pretty much teamed up wrg to weapons/training/etc. To top it off the feds were so impressed with the paki/tali religious dedication and a lot of our cash funded madrassas which in turn radicalized a shit ton of people which lead us into the situation we’re in now. It’s fucking absolutely nuts. If you want to read an amazing account of that whole ordeal I highly recommend “Ghost Wars”. And the follow up “Directorate S”

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wars-Afghanistan-Invasion-September/dp/0143034669/ref=pd_sbs_3/142-7118718-8375569?pd_rd_w=tWSpS&amp;pf_rd_p=f8e24c42-8be0-4374-84aa-bb08fd897453&amp;pf_rd_r=WCCMAN2B0SM75C91BHHD&amp;pd_rd_r=de1bc839-0f75-4bae-8232-231...

We basically caused 9/11 the rise of the taliban, the shitshow going on now and pretty much every terrorist attack claimed by isis and a lot more. I can’t even find the words to describe how I felt after absorbing everything.

The audiobook is great and there’s so much crazy shit thst pops up your constantly like “WTF!!”

Indeed. For anyone unfamiliar with Russian domestic propaganda the book Nothing Is Real And Everything Is Possible is excellent. The Russian government has become very good at using conspiracy theories to manipulate their citizens and they are leveraging those expertise to influence other nations.

If you want the state to create or enforce a monopoly, you aren't a Capitalist. Simply repeating "they are Capitalists!" does not make it true. These are the people who funded the Bolsheviks, does that make them Communists? They are 100% STATISTS.

https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Bolshevik-Revolution-Capitalists/dp/190557035X

They just used government to shutdown private business for a whole year while thier corporations consolidated customers. Many of those businesses will never come back. This is not Capitalism and Corporate Personhood does not exist without the State to grant special privileges while avoiding legal liability. Corporate status itself is a fiction created by the State.