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¿Por qué Churchill y Stalin invadieron Irán pese a su neutralidad? #Iran #Irán #SegundaGuerraMundial #Churchill #Stalin #Historia #HistoriaContemporanea #UnionSovietica #ReinoUnido #Geopolitica #25deagosto #felizmartes #Efemerides #Pahlavi #CorredorPersa
https://donporque.com/reino-unido-y-la-union-sovietica-invadieron-iran/
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The Trump administration's campaign against energy-efficiency policies is driven more by politics and support for fossil fuels than by sound energy or economic policy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/23/world/energy-efficiency-communist-plot/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #zohranmamdani #republicans #democrats #gregabbott #texas #newyorkcity #newyorkers #donaldtrump #departmentofenergy #stalin #environmentalprotectionagencygeorgehwbush #climatechange #electricity
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Tallest ‘Stalinist’ Skyscrapers of the former Soviet Bloc
Identified below by order of height are “Stalinist” empire style skyscrapers that were built in the former Soviet Union. and its satellite nations. Most of these were begun in the late 1940s and 1950s, while Joseph Stalin was still alive, though one, Triumph Palace, represents a rebirth of the Stalinism style from the early 2000s.
Seven Sisters of Moscow – reddit.comThe skyscrapers with an asterisk (*) before them are the famous Seven Sisters of Stalin’s Empire Style Architecture built in Moscow. Two others were planned, but never built, including what would have been the tallest building in the world at the time – The Palace of the Soviets.
Source: amazon.comDesign characteristics of “Stalinist” empire style of architecture include, but are not limited to the following:
- Monumental design including tall spires
- Strict symmetry
- Abundant decoration
- Expensive natural materials
- Palatial interiors
- Combination of neoclassical and art deco styles
- Ornamental features such as stars, hammer & sickle, etc.
Regardless of one’s opinions of Stalin and his policies, these towering structures are immensely impressive and quite breathtaking. Compared to so many bland, boxy skyscrapers proliferating the planet, these high-rise edifices succeed in adding character and a touch of panache to the cities where they are located in a manner that enhances their surroundings. If only more early post-WWII architectural trends had done the same, many dullish city skylines would have been more visually entertaining during the Cold War era.
Peace/Mir!
- Triumph Palace (2006): Moscow, Russia = 264.1 m/866.5 feet – Neo-Stalinist style – often considered the “Eighth Sister“.
2. *Moscow State University Administration Building (1953): Moscow, Russia= 240 m/787.4 feet
Source: russiable.com3. Palace of Culture and Science (1955): Warsaw, Poland = 237 m/777.6 feet
Source: inyourpocket.com4. *Hotel Ukraina [Radisson] (1957): Moscow, Russia = 206 m/675.9 feet
Source: vecteezy.com5. *Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building (1952): Moscow, Russia = 176 m/577.4 feet
Source: en.wikipedia.org6. *Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1953): Moscow, Russia = 172 m/564.3 feet
Source: imaginoso.com7. *Kudrinskaya Square Building (1954): Moscow, Russia = 156 m/511.8 feet
Source: instagram.com8. *Hotel Leningradskaya [Hilton} (1954): Moscow, Russia = 136 m/446.2 feet
Source: almosafer.com9. *Red Gate Square (1953): Moscow, Russia = 133 m/436.4 feet
Source: en.wikipeida.org10. Latvian Academy of Sciences (1961): Riga, Latvia = 108 m/354.3 feet
Source: riga-guide.com11. House of the Free Press (1957): Bucharest, Romania = 104 m/341.2 feet
Source: travelamkertours.com12. Grand Hotel International (1956): Prague, Czechia = 88 m/288.7 feet
Source: hotel-international-prague.prague-hotels.org13. Beijing Exhibition Center (1954): Beijing, China = 87 m/285.4 feet
Source: en.wikipedia.org14. South Ural University Main Building (1950s/1997): Chelyabinsk, Russia = 84 m/275.6 feet – truncated by Khrushchev but fully completed in 1997
15. Sochi Marine Terminal Building (1955): Sochi, Russia = 71 m/233 feet
Source: imaginoso.com16. Ukraine Hotel (1961): Kyiv, Ukraine = 66.1 m/216.9 feet – truncated by Khrushchev
Source: ukraine-hotel.kiev.ua17-18. Frankfurt Tor “Gate” x 2 (1957): East Berlin/Berlin, East Germany/Germany ~ 60 m/196.85 feet each
Source: berlin.de19. Sochi Railway Station (rebuilt 1952): Sochi, Russia = 55 m/180.5 feet
Source: nashaplaneta.netSOURCES:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Moscow
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(Moscow)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Moscow_Leningradskaya
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gate_Building
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Hotel_International_Prague
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Ukraine
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_Free_Press
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Academy_of_Sciences
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Culture_and_Science
- https://skyscraperpage.com/b46671/kyiv/ukraine-hotel
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Palace
- gemini.google.ai
- https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-news/pnvgc/stalinist-architecture-makes-a-comeback-in-russia.html
- https://www.susu.ru/en/news/2021/12/21/main-building-what-it-looked-and-how-it-transformed
- https://museumstudiesabroad.org/moscow-seven-sisters-history-stalin-skyscrapers/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinist_architecture
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Exhibition_Center
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Tor
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbidgood/47619192062
- https://www.berlin.de/ost-west-ost-kulturbahnhoefe/en/history-walk/artikel.1604472.en.php
- https://denkmaldatenbank.berlin.de/daobj.php?obj_dok_nr=09085171
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochi_railway_station
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Station_(Sochi)
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“When you mix science and politics, you get politics:*…
Agronomist and political operator Trofim Lysenko (left, giving a speech at the Kremlin in 1935) and U.S.S.R. dictator Joseph Stalin (right) purged geneticists who did not renounce Mendelian genetics. A new funding framework proposed in the United States could similarly quell certain areas of scientific inquiry, many scientists and activists say.Tina Hesman Saey on a looming threat to the U.S…
Soviet scientists in the 1930s knew what could happen if they bucked the party line: denunciation, firing and banishment from the scientific establishment, even imprisonment and death. Political reprisals against those who opposed the views of dictator Joseph Stalin and his followers — and the dubious science they endorsed — led to the starvation of millions, as well as to decades of lost progress in fields from agriculture to molecular biology.
Now, scientists are warning that history could repeat itself — but in the United States.
A new proposal from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget would put political appointees in charge of funding decisions traditionally overseen by scientists. In recent years, the federal government has funded about 40 percent of basic science research in the United States.
The OMB’s more than 400-page proposed rule change would let political appointees decide how to hand out federal research funds and who can get them. It would cut funding for collaboration with scientists in other countries and restrict scientists’ ability to communicate their findings. What’s more, it could prevent research on matters that President Donald Trump’s administration has deemed “not in the national interest” — such as studies on health disparities, mRNA-based vaccines and research that doesn’t recognize biological sex as a strict binary.
The new rules would also give OMB the power to rescind previously approved research funds. The proposal “poses a sweeping threat to federal grantmaking and the responsible stewardship of American taxpayer dollars,” the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science Foundation said in a report. In addition, it would impact nonscientific grants supporting services for mental health, housing, education, veterans and Tribal nations, affecting the health and well-being of millions.
So far, OMB has received more than 98,000 comments on the proposal. The public comment period closes July 13. It then will be up to OMB to decide whether to keep the rule as is, revise it or scrap it.
These far-reaching measures are already drawing parallels to dark moments in scientific history. Some researchers say the recent mass firings, policy changes and grant cancellations at federal research institutions, including the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, closely mirror what happened in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin. “A similar threat now hangs over U.S. science,” the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine wrote in June.
Its editorial invoked the example of Trofim Lysenko [see here], an agronomist and astute political operator who rose to power in the 1930s Soviet Union under Stalin.
Until the 1930s, “the Soviet Union was a real powerhouse in the field of genetics,” says Lee Dugatkin, an evolutionary biologist and historian of science at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
Then, Lysenko came along. “This guy was your sort of classic charlatan,” Dugatkin says. “He had the equivalent of a mail order degree in agriculture, but he was quite good with the press, and he started to basically spread this idea out there that he was capable of dramatically increasing crop yield, particularly wheat.”
Lysenko’s supposed innovation was a process called vernalization and amounted to soaking seeds in freezing water. The resulting plants — and all their offspring — should be resistant to the U.S.S.R.’s famously cold winters, Lysenko reasoned.
His reasoning was based on a disproven idea in evolutionary biology called Lamarckian inheritance. French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his followers thought that things an organism experiences in its lifetime can be handed down to the next generation. The classic example is a giraffe that has to stretch to reach leaves producing offspring with long necks.
This idea ran counter to Mendelian genetics, which holds that genes — not environmental influences — control traits and are passed to offspring. Mendelian geneticists thought it would take five years to breed more cold-tolerant crops. Lysenko said he could do it in two to three years.
Stalin didn’t have time to wait. He was trying to get collective farms going and needed to increase crop yields to feed more than 150 million people. Large parts of the country had already suffered from famine in 1932 and 1933 and about 6 million people died. Some resorted to cannibalism.
Stalin embraced Lysenko’s quick-fix approach. That decision, says Michael Gordin, a historian of science at Princeton University, was “something that the majority of people at the time, and everyone since, considers the wrong side of the dispute.”
Lysenko was put in charge of a prestigious genetics institute and forced his scientifically unsound farming practices on the collective farms. His methods were disastrous.
Soaking seeds in freezing water hampered germination, leading to crop losses. Millions starved. Meanwhile, Mendelian genetics was branded a “whore of capitalism,” and geneticists were forced to renounce their views or lose their jobs. Many were jailed, and almost a dozen were executed or died in prison.
The Soviet Union lost its scientific leadership role and sat on the sidelines for important scientific discoveries of the 1950s and beyond. One, Gordin says, was the development of “massively” productive hybrid corn. The country also missed out on the discovery of DNA and the advent of molecular biology, putting Soviet genetics decades behind the rest of the world.
Soviet genetics did not recover from Lysenko’s influence until after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gordin says. “I think you’d be hard pressed to find anybody who thinks that … Russia is today, or Ukraine, or any post-Soviet successor state, is a leading molecular biology country.”…
The Soviets did it, and it didn’t end well: “Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science,” from @thsaey.bsky.social in @sciencenews.bsky.social.
See also: Idiocracy
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As we remember the past so as not to repeat it, we might recall that it was on this date in 1834 that the Spanish Inquisition (finally) ended. Authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478, the Inqusition was initially led by inquisitors (Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín) who were appointed by the future Catholic monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. It was originally (ostensibly) intended primarily to identify heretics; its aim, to maintain Christian orthodoxy. But it became an effective instrument of state power by replacing the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control.
Over its course, the Inquisition prosecuted an estimated 150,000 people for various offences. An estimated 3,000–5,000 were turned over to the state for execution, particularly in the initial 50 years, mostly by burning at the stake. Other punishments included penance and public flogging, exile, enslavement on galleys, and prison terms ranging from several years to life. In many of these punishments an important motive was the confiscation of all the victims’ property.
As Monty Python observed, “nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.” And nobody expected it to last 356 years.
Burning of heretics at stakes (auto-da-fé) in a marketplace during the Spanish Inquisition. (source) #agriculture #culture #funding #genetics #history #Lysenko #OfficeOfManagementAndBudget #OMB #politics #research #Science #scientificResearch #SpanishInquisition #Stalin -
All hail the Great Genius Stalin!
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2179854/all-hail-the-great-genius-stalin
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"Wow, it's amazing how many counterrevolutionary traitors helped the revolution!"
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"Wow, it's amazing how many counterrevolutionary traitors helped the revolution!"
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I hope that's all perfectly clear
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2124611/i-hope-that-s-all-perfectly-clear
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That's right! Fascists go in the TRASH
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2121335/that-s-right-fascists-go-in-the-trash
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"Wait, it's all friendly-fire?" Always was. 🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2110673/wait-it-s-all-friendly-fire-always-was
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Daily reminder that the German Communist Party called the Nazi Party "Working People's Comrades" in their alliance against the dastardly democratic socialists 😊
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Daily reminder that the German Communist Party called the Nazi Party "Working People's Comrades" in their alliance against the dastardly democratic socialists 😊
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Give it a decade or two, and tankies will start glazing Pol Pot again just like they do Stalin
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Give it a decade or two, and tankies will start glazing Pol Pot again just like they do Stalin
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"Enligt en undersökning av Verian säger 19 procent av väljare som planerar att rösta rödgrönt att ett besked om Vänsterpartiet som del av en regering gör dem mycket mindre eller något mindre benägna att rösta på något av oppositionspartierna"
som en jämförelse hos de som röstar #tidö
"Bland Tidöväljarna uppger 9 procent att de är något mindre eller mycket mindre benägna att rösta Tidö med SD i regering."
#svpol #polpot #stalin #mao #vänsterpartiet
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/v-i-regering-skrammer-oppositionens-valjare
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Disarray: Alarm inside #Pentagon after #Hegseth staff purges
Since #Trump’s first term, they have been viewed comfortingly as the “adults in the room,” a last line of defense against the impulsive whims of a president with access to the #nuclear codes.
After unprecedented wave of #firings that has been compared to #Stalin’s purges, Pentagon top brass no longer seem like such a reliable bulwark
https://www.europesays.com/uk/935086/
#dictatorship #DementiaDon #USAggression #USThreats #BoycottUSA #sociopaths
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L’ambizioso progetto sovietico del biplano in grado di cambiare in volo il numero delle sue ali
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=44356#volo #tecnologia #progettazione #invenzioni #biplani #sesquiplani #secondaguerramondiale #conflitti #storia #sovietici #russia #novecento #invenzioni #ali #portanza #biplani #monoplani #mosca #personaggi #stalin #prototipi #idee #aerodinamica #caccia
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youtu.be/PtRz6qRUq2E
Compared to the #Czars #Lenin was a competent and a nice guy, sadly for all Russians, he was an arrogant bastard, and #Trotsky even more so. Lenin looked down on the peasants, Trotsky looked down on the peasants AND the #proletariat . #Lenin gave all party members perks that began to corrupt the ideology, and #Stalin used those perks to gain loyalty from people with loose belief in #communism . Trotsky would have been the right man for the job, but wasn't the best at gaining and holding power. Communism would have been somewhat repressive but no where near the terror and brutality and death that it was under Stalin, with deaths that dwarfed most czars, and 3% of the population was incarcerated.. After that all new socialist nations were forced due to trade embargoes by the west to become Stalinist instead of a more democratic system. This only ended once Stalin Died and places like Chile, Vietnam, Cuba and Laos aimed to be democratic, but with all the American backed coups and embargoes, this was not to be sadly.
Why Trotsky Lost to Stalin (Even Though He Was Smarter) -
The PEOPLE'S pseudoscience!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1855250/the-people-s-pseudoscience
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The PEOPLE'S pseudoscience!
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1855246/the-people-s-pseudoscience
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The classic Tankie Scale
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1733281/the-classic-tankie-scale
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The classic Tankie Scale
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1733281/the-classic-tankie-scale
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@WorldTravelerAll7 @BrianJopek
When this meme was true we should have much less problems. #polpot #stalin #hitler et al... -
Throw Them All in the Trash Bin of History: Why Authoritarian “Communist” Leaders Deserve No Praise
There’s a strange trend that never seems to die: people—especially some folks on the left—continue to romanticize and defend authoritarian communist leaders like Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Enver Hoxha, and an entire laundry list of other so‑called “revolutionaries” who ended up running deeply authoritarian regimes. And let me be completely honest from the start: I think this is nonsense. When people try to excuse or justify the atrocities committed by these […] -
Throw Them All in the Trash Bin of History: Why Authoritarian “Communist” Leaders Deserve No Praise
There’s a strange trend that never seems to die: people—especially some folks on the left—continue to romanticize and defend authoritarian communist leaders like Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Enver Hoxha, and an entire laundry list of other so‑called “revolutionaries” who ended up running deeply authoritarian regimes. And let me be completely honest from the start: I think this is nonsense. When people try to excuse or justify the atrocities committed by these […] -
Throw Them All in the Trash Bin of History: Why Authoritarian “Communist” Leaders Deserve No Praise
There’s a strange trend that never seems to die: people—especially some folks on the left—continue to romanticize and defend authoritarian communist leaders like Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Enver Hoxha, and an entire laundry list of other so‑called “revolutionaries” who ended up running deeply authoritarian regimes. And let me be completely honest from the start: I think this is nonsense. When people try to excuse or justify the atrocities committed by these […] -
#Russia #Putin #VladimirPutin #Stalin #USSR #BBC #SteveRosenberg #Russian #UkraineWar #Indoctrination #History #RewritingHistory #ErasingHistory
The slow indoctrination begins. If Steve asked the same questions to young Russians in thirty years, I wonder what answers he’d get?
Steve Rosenberg’s past exploits make him a top journalist in my opinion. Anyone gutsy enough to ask Putin inflammatory questions head on in fluent Russian is definitely worth listening to.
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@nrc_nl
#socialisme is een groot #idee, #collectief , daar zullen de #arbeiders gelukkig van worden. Zelfs #Stalin had door dat #volkshuisvesting mer is dan een doos voor #bed #bad #brood. -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2VmC-SLInM
Turns out people of #Russia did not like capitalism as they spent the rest of the 90s impoverished as the oligarchs robbed them by buying up the nation for kopecks on the ruble. #Putin pulled them out of poverty which is why so many are blindly loyal to him. #Stalin was already seen as a bad guy during destalinization under #Khrushchev. While after enough time he finally helped win WWII, he refused to fight Hitler at first and locked himself away believing Hitler would never break their pact and it took the local peoples to fight them for several months before he did anything finally. Stalin locked up 3% of the nations population, the only nation to beat that level of prison population is the US with .7% of its population in prison roughly 5 to 10 years ago at its peak, North Korea might be higher be we have no real data on the nation. Around 1991, the top 3 nations with highest % in prison we the US, South Africa and the soviet union in 3rd. Prior to Nixon the soviet union have roughly the same percentage they had in 91, but we had half or less the prisoners they did. We did have lynchings though.Oddly enough it was Putin that has given him a rehab. #ussr -
“Famous #Russian wives” seen on #TikTok ; Mrs. #Stalin , Mrs. #Khrushchev , Mrs. #Gorbachev , and Mrs. #Putin. 😂 👀 ⬇️ #USpol
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Abrechnung mit Stalin - Schostakowitschs 10. Sinfonie im Leipziger Gewandhaus
Es war nicht das erste Mal, daß ich die 10. Sinfonie von Dmitrij Schostakowitsch im Konzert erlebte. Als ich sie aber im Großen Konzert des Gewandhauses am 12. Januar 2024 hörte, ging sie mir so nahe, als sei es das erste Mal gewesen.
https://oratorium-leipzig.de/abrechnung-mit-stalin-schostakowitsch/
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'He told me that there were now two options. The first was that Mr. #Putin would be replaced somehow, and that a period of reform would start, as under #Khrushchev after #Stalin .
“The second option, which is more realistic, is that the regime stays in place and #Russia will be slowly dying,” Mr. Orlov said. “It will fall behind other countries, and to make this regime stable, the level of repression will rise.”
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Hace 90 años el gobierno ruso bajo el mando de #Stalin hizo morir de hambre a unos 10 millones de #ucranianos para someter a esa nación a su voluntad. Un triste recordatorio hoy que la rusia de #Putin, en el siglo XXI, quiere someterlos de nuevo con una guerra criminal. 🇺🇦
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La unua reta IJK – tutmonda ponto virtuala kaj junulara https://sezonoj.ru/?p=15469 #Esperantujo #Albert #Stalin #Tancinco #Garrido #Antonia #Montaro #Charlotte #Scherping #Larsson #E@I #Esperanto #IJK #Internacia #Junulara #Kongreso #interreto #junularo #Snehaja #Venkatesh #TEJO #esperanto #sezonoj
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Hi Tamil Nanbargale Take a look at 𝔑𝔞𝔳𝔞𝔫𝔢𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔨𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔥𝔫𝔞𝔫 (@Iampronk): https://twitter.com/Iampronk?s=09 இதான் என்னோட டுவிட்டர் ஐடி இங்கே பின்தொடர்பவர்கள்.
என்னை அங்கேயும் பின்தொடரவும்.
#Ajith #Vijay #Vijayakanth #Bigil #Valimai #Thala #Thalapathy #தமிழ் #தமிழன் #Tamilan #India #IndvsBan #Dhoni #Vadivelu #Comedy #Stalin #Aiadmk #Dmk #Dmdk #PMK
