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Sopo Japaridze

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Sopo Japaridze

@sopjap

Old school socialist. Follow me for Soviet Georgia History podcast and current events in Georgia (the country); working class and social/economic commentary.

Tbilisi, Georgia

Born November 20

Joined December 2016

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Sopo Japaridze
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May 10
Our new episode @ReimaginingG is on Soviet Foreign Policy and Stalin's desperate attempt to ally with the West against Hitler, only to be rejected over and over again. In the 1930s, the USSR sought a collective security alliance against Nazi Germany for six years. Despite
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Jul 26, 2024
Aaron Bushnell burned himself alive to stop the genocide of Palestinians, and the US media and ruling parties care more about US flag burning.
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Oct 9, 2023
A Palestinian friend sent me this message: At this point we don’t CARE or need the world to support us and we are NOT asking for permission to live. The world had decades to help us. It has refused to do so. These are our lives and we get to decide what needs to happen and how.
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Aug 26, 2024
In 1992, I was in Moscow on the way to fly to the US. My stepfather who was an ardent anti-communist took me to an American opened ice cream shop with ‘hundreds’ of flavors to show me the superiority of capitalism - not just 2 flavors of USSR. I hated the flavors but didn’t
USSR Pictures
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Aug 26, 2024
Tourists from France try soviet ice cream, 1976 (photo by A. Kovtun)
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Sopo Japaridze
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Jul 22, 2024
Kamala’s dad is so real.
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May 20, 2024
They both sided this?? Hamas is as culpable as Netanyahu?! Fucking kidding me
BBC Breaking News
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May 20, 2024
International Criminal Court seeks arrest warrants for Israel's PM Netanyahu and top Hamas leaders for war crimes bbc.in/4boSIOL
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Nov 26, 2022
I was today years old when I found out Bayer, the pharmaceutical co., knowingly sold HIV-infected hemophilia medication to Asia and Latin America in the 80s causing thousands to die of AIDS because they didn't want to lose profits since it got banned in rich countries
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Nov 24, 2024
Gay bar called ‘Kremlin’ in Belfast, Ireland with a statue of Lenin. Incredible.
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Jun 2, 2024
Tbilisi Palestine 🇵🇸 solidarity
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Mar 5, 2025
Bernie got community noted so well! ‘US is #1 supporter of dictatorships around be world’ 👏
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Apr 13, 2024
If a tree falls in the forest and a western journalist isn’t there to hear it, does it make a sound?
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Dec 11, 2023
Wonder why the only Muslims these racist white supremacy accounts ‘support’ are Uyghurs? 🤔
Visegrád 24
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Dec 11, 2023
Why has it always been like this?
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May 5, 2023
Happy Happy Birthday, Karl!
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Aug 26, 2024
Replying to @sopjap
There are many photos of me like that. I had no idea why I was told to pose in supermarkets. I was being used for his anti-communism. We’d sent photos back to Georgia to so they’d be impressed! My stepfather was in reality a neonazi - not exaggerating but that’s another story…
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