Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 11 hours agoTIL about Ivan VI of Russia, named emperor in 1740 when he was two months old, deposed in a coup thirteen months later, then kept a prisoner in solitary confinement for 20 years until his murder.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square40arrow-up1185arrow-down10
arrow-up1185arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Ivan VI of Russia, named emperor in 1740 when he was two months old, deposed in a coup thirteen months later, then kept a prisoner in solitary confinement for 20 years until his murder.en.wikipedia.orgFlying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 11 hours agomessage-square40
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 hour ago“we thought we hit rock bottom, but then we heard a knock from below” -Russian Joke
minus-squaresunzu2linkfedilink-19•10 hours agoDocile dogs breed such result but let’s be real we got enough of that every where It ain’t like “western civilization” is progressing unless you count young people slaving in poverty as some sort of gold standard… 🤔
Russian History:
And then it got worse…
“we thought we hit rock bottom, but then we heard a knock from below” -Russian Joke
We wanted the best but it turned out as always.
Docile dogs breed such result but let’s be real we got enough of that every where
It ain’t like “western civilization” is progressing unless you count young people slaving in poverty as some sort of gold standard… 🤔