Thinking about how this ends in Russia & what comes after, I remembered a 1995 exhibit in Moscow of the secret annexes to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. As I looked at the actual documents, an elderly couple behind me quietly denounced them as fake. I think about that a lot. Tweet added by Paul Goode @jpaulgoode

Paul Goode

2 years

Thinking about how this ends in Russia & what comes after, I remembered a 1995 exhibit in Moscow of the secret annexes to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. As I looked at the actual documents, an elderly couple behind me quietly denounced them as fake. I think about that a lot.

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Kieran D Williams

@KDWilliams7

2 years

@jpaulgoode I think a lot about seeing the film ASSA in Leningrad in 1988 and people applauding when Brezhnev briefly appeared on screen. And people in shops muttering “It’s about time” when the coup was announced in August 1991.