Luka Ivan Jukic
@lijukic
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Reading and writing. Author, Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea (out 14 August 2025)
London, England
Joined January 2019
'An elegant, erudite and thoughtful book' - Peter Frankopan. 'A fantastic journey' - Peter Pomerantsev. 'A masterful and bold account' - Martyn Rady. I am delighted to be able to share the first reviews of my forthcoming history of Central Europe - available for pre-order now!
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Fact: no military alliance with a bridge to Sicily has ever been invaded.
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I suppose the regulated nature of this route - registration in Vienna! - explains why they were all simply called 'Swabians' even though many originally came from elsewhere.
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The logistics of Danube Swabian migration in the 18th century: 8 gulden (360 euros?) and ten days to get to Vienna from Donauwörth. Two boats a month. Continue on to Hungary at added expense, knowing it's a one-way ticket. Boats are dismantled and sold for parts at the end.
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Average Duolingo sentence: I have a cat in my pocket. Average 1965 Hungarian textbook sentence: Dear Comrade! Are you the Bulgarian trade union delegate?
Four chapters into my Hungarian textbook from 1965 and I have already learned many essential words like 'comrade', 'collective farm', 'trade union congress', 'soviet', 'soldier', and the outdated and politically incorrect word 'sir'.
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Four chapters into my Hungarian textbook from 1965 and I have already learned many essential words like 'comrade', 'collective farm', 'trade union congress', 'soviet', 'soldier', and the outdated and politically incorrect word 'sir'.
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Incredible slogan used in the 1948 Italian election (you can guess by who)
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A great book!.
I have arrived for the launch of ‘Silence of the Gods’! Hoping it goes better than a SpaceX launch…
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‘The America in Us’ would be such a great title for a history of postwar Western Europe
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An American observes the relationship between Germans and their beer in 1880. Funnily enough, beer consumption in Germany fell 43% between 1929 and 1933.
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Fascinating how clear cut the North-South divide was in Italy’s 1946 monarchy-republic referendum
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Really enjoying this - about the establishment and consolidation of Italy’s postwar democracy
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Don’t think this really matters in the grand scheme of things, but it’s the epitome of everything wrong with bluesky.
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Surreal that a significant portion of bluesky seems to have memed itself into MAGA levels of conspiratorial delusion
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