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Christopher Lash

@chrislashhist.bsky.social
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Historian of Poland and CEE in the world based in Warsaw, Poland. Might be the odd political skeet here and there. Private views

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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Think they'd have been pumped by Spain in the final if they'd have somehow gone through. They're not good against teams who can move the ball around, they were a bit lucky vs Norway too tbf
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It was quite frankly bizarre tactics
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Kane was atrocious in the last 2 games. Don't think England were good enough overall quite frankly
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
After seeing what Chatgpt and AI has done to students critical thinking capabilities I think we need universities even more than we did before
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This misses the point. Self-education has become more accessible in the last 20 years than at any point in history, though not through ‘amateur reading’. The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I'm not denying there are issues here, but both Zelensky and Nawrocki have and are behaving poorly
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Both countries behaving like petulant teenagers if you ask me. Only one winner in this dispute and it's not Poland or Ukraine edition.cnn.com/2026/06/20/europe/zelensky-returns-poland-honor-latam-intl
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Zelensky returns Poland’s highest honor amid escalating row over nationalist wartime unit | CNN
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has returned Poland’s highest state honor, after the Polish president stripped him of the award as a politically charged dispute over World War II history resurface...
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Polish Ukrainian arguments over the last weeks to me shows that both countries feel perhaps too secure and are letting their guard down a bit too much
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I know it's a bit weird to say this on social media but I've found a great way to keep in touch with what's going on without social media, an RSS feed! I've found a good open source one without ads, no algorithm, no social element, feeder. It's really nice
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Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Great interview of @samuelhelfont.bsky.social about his new book "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" with @oxunipress.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. pocketcasts.com/podcast/new-...
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Samuel Helfont, "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Congrats!
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I think it just makes sense not to be subject to US law when you're not based there
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
And all of this tech works very well btw + has way better data protection standards than US tech. I should have thought of it before tbh but why should my data be subject to US laws? Makes no sense. Of course some things are difficult to give up, but feeling good about my decision!
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I've decided to massively decouple from US tech. I'm now using Le chat instead of US AI, Proton instead of Gmail, Vivaldi instead of Chrome and Qwant instead of Google. Anyone who's based in Europe the time is now to move towards European digital sovereignty!
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My article about Polish Socialist fishing engagement in Senegal during the Cold War has now officially got a volume and issue number, so that means another 50 free copies to download, fill your boots! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8BBEK...
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‘Fishing for Profit?’ Socialist Bloc Inroads in Decolonised Spaces: The Case of Polish Fishing Co-Operation in Senegal, 1960–85
This article examines Socialist Poland’s fishing co-operation with Senegal between 1960 and 1985. Poland had the second largest Eastern Bloc fishing fleet with a worldwide reach. From the early 197...
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I'm still mostly going to be focusing on the Iraq war, but it's 'nice' when real world events confirm historical precedents
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The only 'good' thing about Trump's Venezuela operation is it gives me for fuel for my US neoimperialism lecture on the history of Empire course I'm preparing to teach
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Yeah, think I'll give it a miss, thanks
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My new open access article is out now! It continues my research into the Polish People's Republics' engagements with Francophone West Africa during the Cold War. Enjoy! resgestae.uken.krakow.pl/issue/view/802
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João Fusco Ribeiro @joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The article on Polish–Angolan relations is out in the Journal of Cold War History. It explores an asymmetrical relationship shaped by anti-imperialist solidarity and economic pragmatism, but also marked by tensions, disappointments, and corruption. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Unlocking Opportunities: Polish economic interactions in Angola in the aftermath of decolonisation (1975–1981)1
This article examines the economic interactions between the Polish People’s Republic and the People’s Republic of Angola in the aftermath of decolonisation (1975-1981) and explores in detail Warsaw...
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João Fusco Ribeiro @joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Great to see on paper mine and Helder's chapter on the Angolan Decolonization process, specially as we draw close to the country's 50 years aniversary.
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My new open access article is out now! It continues my research into the Polish People's Republics' engagements with Francophone West Africa during the Cold War. Enjoy! resgestae.uken.krakow.pl/issue/view/802
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Btw this class is super-interesting, what a wonderful opportunity to re-visit some of the things I learned pre-university and seeing the great newish works on all of these topics. Very eye-opening!
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Now of course the truth was that both the Spanish and the British were the baddies. But I had no idea that basically I was being taught kind of geopolitical propaganda that had made its way into the consciousness of Brits and British historiography, something that continues to this day
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It's weird how insinuous national history teaching is. When I was at school in the UK I was basically taught that the Spaniards were the baddies and we were the goodies re: any imperial history. Only when preparing a class on Empires in World History did I realise I had imbibed the 'black legend'
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I saw you cited me! Thanks!
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Magdalena Kozłowska @magdalenakozlowska.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Funny how academia works: nothing for ages, then boom, 2 articles in a week. The 2nd began with @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social email. Not my usual period but those intriguing AAN files kept calling… Of course, Jewish threads are in: I wouldn’t be me otherwise 😉. doi.org/10.1177/0888...
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Stanley Bill @stanleysbill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our new book with @benstanley.eu on illiberalism in Poland has arrived with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. We look at the successes and failures of the Law and Justice (PiS) party as a leading example of the evolving global challenges to liberal democracy. www.sup.org/books/politi...
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Good Change | Stanford University Press
Few countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland. Under the populist Law and Justice (PiS) –led g...
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
My book is available for pre-order from @nupress.bsky.social. 25% discount with code NUP2025 at nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014884... Only a few more weeks until it comes out!
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Nonaligned Imagination - Northwestern University Press
Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations   Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seekin...
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I gave it a bit of a go here bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Good piece but not enough about the main tensions that have led many Poles to become far more anti-Ukrainian since the early months of the war
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Tbf I was quite surprised that the anti-Ukrainian part of Polish political discourse was so successfully stifled in the aftermath of the invasion. Put it this way, Polish society is deeply sceptical towards Ukraine for historical reasons (and prejudice has always lurked beneath the surface)
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I'm not sure how to find a way out of this impasse and Polish-Ukrainian relations are at their weakest point since the invasion. It's actually rather sad that when the conflict eventually ends, the 2 countries which were seemingly on such good terms will be potentially uncomfortable neighbours/ends
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Just to underline, I don't just blame the Poles for this (although this is clear populist nationalist politicking from Nawrocki). Ukraine has been at times tonally deaf to Polish concerns and counted on complete support in a lackadaisical fashion. In addition, there are issues which need resolution
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The fact that it hardly showed its face in the aftermath of the invasion shows how existential a threat Poland initially considered the situation to be. As the conflict has become less existential and more normalized it was always likely that tensions would emerge
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Tbf I was quite surprised that the anti-Ukrainian part of Polish political discourse was so successfully stifled in the aftermath of the invasion. Put it this way, Polish society is deeply sceptical towards Ukraine for historical reasons (and prejudice has always lurked beneath the surface)
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
To all proof readers. Please do not be overly thorough and intrusive when looking through proofs. My current article the proof reader has gone a bit ballistic.
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Finding Poland's boasting of the fact they recognized Palestine a bit of a self own as it happened before the fall of communism when Eastern European countries all supported the Arab side anyway
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Russia's over there (thus the obligatory black clouds 😉). At a little village called Piaski (Nowa Karczma) at the Polish Baltic Sea coast very close to the border
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Possible highlight of my stay at the Polish coast; an 8 year girl with a t-shirt with the words 'I love saying dumb sh*t' on it. Would be interested to find out the conversation that preceded the purchase
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Some kind of weird in-joke perhaps?
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Trump's decision to attack Iran two days after saying he might do so in two weeks and now talking about regime change makes me feel that we're in some completely twisted, insanely sped up version of 2003
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
People who've done academic research on the Iraq war watching what's going on
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Definitely something to read!
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Jan Daniel @horalistani.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I have often been asked about the reasons for the Czech Republic’s uncritical support of Israeli actions. I am happy that I can now refer to the forum published by the Czech Journal of International Relations that features a range of experts on different aspects of the Czech policy on Israel 🧵 1/7
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Btw all these people saying Sikorski would have beaten Nawrocki. I'm sorry but wtf? Sikorski has the biggest negative electorate of anyone apart from Tusk in PO. Like the left liberals would have turned out to vote for him. Laughable
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