Today I have been appointed Associate Professor of Cultural History at the Latvian Academy of Culture. If you have ideas for research or teaching in cultural history, I am open to collaboration.

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The candidate for the party of Ronald Reagan hates a blonde American country singer but he loves a Russian KGB agent….

'Pulling Castro's Beard' — American cartoon published during the Cuban Missile Crisis (25 October 1963) showing the hand of the US pulling Castro's beard, revealing Nikita Khrushchev behind a mask.

OTD in 1939 Poland, as a complete surprise to us, suddenly ceased to exist so we "entered to restore or order and protect our compatriots abroad". We ended up committing crimes against humanity. Definitely not an invasion. Imagine that happening today

584 ambulances were lost in Ukraine due to russian attacks. This is almost every fifth car that worked in pre-war Ukraine.

I put a pager in Dmitry Medvedev’s pocket when he was drunk. He shat himself when I sent the word “BOOM”.

As of September 2024, the Wall Street Journal reported roughly 1 million were killed or wounded in Russia’s war against Ukraine kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-la…

Russia violates UN Charter -45 Nuclear NPT -70 Helsinki Accords -75 Belovezha Accords 91–92 Budapest Memo 94 Black Sea Fleet Treaty 97 Friendship Treaty 98 Treaty on Azov Sea & Kerch Strait 03 Border treaty 03 Karkiv pact 10 So Robert F. Kennedy Jr & Donald Trump Jr. want a new deal

MFA Russia 🇷🇺 Seriously? #MolotovRibbentropPact #HitlerStalinPact

Detail from the 12th century font from the Parish Church of Lyngsjö in Sweden depicting Thomas Becket’s martyrdom. The font was part of the Becket exhibition at the British Museum back in 2021. #FontsOnFriday 📸 My own.

Instead of constantly urging and warning Ukraine not to attack certain targets in Russia, it would be better to urge and warn Russia to stop the airstrikes on Ukrainian cities because otherwise certain targets in Russia would be attacked.

"The war in Ukraine will end when Putin decides that the invasion was a mistake and that he will not achieve his goals at an acceptable price," Foreign Minister of Poland said in an interview with MSNBC. To Putin, the war is now a pre-condition to his rule (and probably physical

Perhaps Hungary should leave NATO then.

British poster design from the Second World War (ca. 1943-4) showing a massive Soviet soldier in a concert hall.

You westerners will let me create 10 million Ukrainian refugees and still think you’ve avoided an escalation.

Latvian Children’s Assistance Alliance (Latvijas bērnu palīdzības savienība), poster 1924. redalyc.org/journal/6943/6… #Latvia #Baltics

"Der Kurländer", a magazine of Jewish immigrants from Courland, was published in New York in 1906. #Latvia #USA #Baltics