Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Mans minējums būtu, ka šajos datos parādās arī tas, ka tautskaites dati mums, maigi izsakoties, ir sazīmēti datubāzītēs. Turklāt, tas, ka nekas tāds (salīdzinājumā ar posmu pirms iepriekšējām vēlēšanām) nav noticis, pats par sevi ir diezgan demotivējošs faktors. 010
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Diemžēl tieši tā arī ir. Un zināmā mērā arī pateicoties tam, ka mums ir 2x vairāk augstskolu pret iedzīvotāju skaitu nekā vidēji ES. Augstākās izglītības komercializācija un tās sekas. Bet individuāls students jau tur nav vainīgs. 110
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Kopumā gan lielākoties ir tā kā Jūs sakāt. Bieži apburtais loks, jo pedagogi strādā n vietās un nevar saskaņot grafikus, kamēr nav saskaņoti kaut kur citur. Un ja kāds pusceļā atmet ar roku, tad ir objektīvs uzkāriens. 110
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Jums ir paveicies ar skolas vadību. Mans šī gada pārsteigums bija, ka ne vien interešu izglītība nr 1, kas vienmēr jau augusta vidū visu sataisa, bet pat skola, interešu izglītība 2 un 2 augstskolas visus grafikus salika lidz septembra pirmajai nedēļai. Jā, paveicās, zinu. Sveiciens skolu vadībai. 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cik zināms, nē. Un arī ne valdībā. Bet sistēma, kurā studijas tiek savienotas un pakārtotas darbam, mums ir ilgstoši. Nacionālās augstākās izglītības sistēmas īpatnības. 230
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mums absolūti lielākā daļa maģistrantūras studentu paralēli studijām arī strādā... 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tas par 4gadiem? Slinkums meklēt, bet, ja tā, tad tas sanāktu 354eur jeb ap 177litri degvielas mēnesī, jeb kaut kādi 9l dienā. Nekāds rallijs tur nesanāk, ja patiešām dzīvo Liepājā, bet strādā Rīgā... 001
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Man ļoti patīk, ka grieķiski mūsu valsts nosaukums — Δημοκρατία της Λετονίας — skan gluži kā “Latvijas demokrātija”. Atšķirībā no romiskās res publica — “kopīgās/publiskās lietas” — grieķu δημοκρατία jau pašā vārdā ietver tautas varas ideju: dēmos — tauta, kratos — vara. 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026History can serve also as clickbite. History constantly attracks attention and drags people into unwanted political, religious, esotheric or other disruptive discourses. History serves as trustable and hardly verifyable bite for different kind of manipulators #HistoryTheory 010
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026UN just shrinked size of Russia. Legally. In peoples perceptions. OK. P.S. political accuracy in maps always is going to be debatable. But how we perceive the World in general is highly important. www.bbc.com/news/art... 141
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026From its first days, the Soviet regime intentionally used terror as a tool of rule. 5.09.1918 Soviet Russian government issued a decree permitting execution of the people for belonging to the "hostile classes". #RussianHistory #SovietHistory #otd 130
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Bēgļu gaitas ir ļoti interesanta un nozīmīga latviešu tautas vēstures lappuse, kas bieži vien palikusi nepelnītā novārtā atstāta. Jau rīt būs iespējams paklausīties par to vairāk: www.km.gov.lv/lv/jau... @LNarhivs 010
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026One thing to remember: idea of the "spheres of interest" was not new. It is a cornerstone of diplomatic language of collonialism and imperialism. Also Russian imperial collonialism of early 20th century. #RussianHistory 5/5 010
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The Soviet Union in 1989 declared Secret protocols as legally untendable and invalid since its signing. Modern Russia justifies it as "been in favour of Soviet interests". Germany has broken with its Nazi past. Modern Europe stands on democratic anti-totalitarian grounds. 4/5 110
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Both Nazis and Bolsheviks regarded their ideological order as superior and legitimised the elimination of those they defined as enemies. Paradoxically, neither regime had a place in the other's ideological vision of the future. 3/5 110
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Before WWII Soviet regime had a death toll of millions, but Nazis had "just" thousands Nevertheless both were driven by a desire to reverse Paris system what let democratic nation-states to emerge across Europe. 2/5 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026On August 23, 1939. On this day two bloody, imperialistic and revisionist regimes agreed to capture and divide large territories between them. The path towards WWII was set by the Molotov-Ribbentrop (Soviet-Nazi) pact. #WWII #SovietHistory 1/5 110
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026On this day, August 22, 1991, just after failure of the August Coup in Moscow famous monument to infamaus villain - Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of Russian NKVD (a.k.a. KGB) was demolished in Moscow. Scaled monument to him was erected in Moscow in 2023. #RussianHistory 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Vai tik šoreiz Tev nesanāk pārspīlēt zināšanu potenciālu par wwii vidējā ierēdniecībā ... 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026August 20, 1991 strike of the Moscow's "White House" - house of Supreme Soviet, what turned into center of resistance is prepared. Also defenders of the "the new Russia" prepares themselves for that strike. 10/10 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026August 19, Some army units declares loyalty to Yeltsin. At 13.00 he holds a speech from a tank turret to condemn the coupe. At 17.00 GKChP with shaking hands goes for a press conference on air. Unexpectingly Yeltsin speech goes broadcasted on the state TV. 9/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Following night, August 19, Vice President, Prime Minister, KGB chief, Defence Minister, Interior Minister and other forms the GKChP and takes control over (most)media. At 7.a.m. army columns enters Moscow and until midday establishes control over strategical locations. 8/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026August 18, 16:32. Gorbachev's communications are cut and a delegation of hardliners who demanded proclamation of state of emergency. The Putch has begun. But Gorbachev does not support overthrown of his own policy, nor stands against it. 7/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026July 29, 1991. Gorbachev discusses plans to replace most visible hardliners from their post, what does not remains unnoticed by them. August 3, he announces signing of a New Union Treaty on Tuesday, August 20 and goes for a vacation. The time mechanism has been activated. 6/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026June 12, 1991. Yeltsin by waste majority won Russian presidential elections against Gorbachev's favourited candidate. Same as he did a year ago on elections of chairman of supreme soviet of Russian SFSR. Unstoppable wind of changes has reached Moscow. 5/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/20261991 January Bloodbath in Vilnius and Barricades events Riga with strike on Latvian Ministry of Interior alienated peripheral republics even further. Balts quietly stand for their independence and won this counter-stand against hardliners of CPSU. #BalticHistory 4/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Since late 1990 CPSU hardliners demanded proclamation of state of emergency. Since December 11, power structures started to prepare measures if such an order would come (it did not). #RussianHistory 3/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Idea of being forced into Soviet Union 2.0 proposed by new treaty was unacceptable for Balts, who already was on their path to full independence. It was also unacceptable to hardliners of CPSU, who would loose significant instruments of power. #SovietHistory 2/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Gorbachev's reforms was unable tu save Soviet Union from its economical and ideological collapse. On June 11, 1991 Russia declares its sovereignty. Gorbachev responses with an offer of new union treaty, but leadership of power structures started to prepare for clash. 1/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Jāskatās konkrētas lietas. Anatomikumā arī ir izstādīta konkrēta cilvēka āda, un tur viss legit ka ar morāli, tā ētiku... Novēlēt savu ķermeni pēc nāves medicīnai/zinātnei/izglītošanai ir šur tur sen pazīstama prakse. 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Long answer short: Poor reevaluation of own history. Russian history practically always had been written on behalf of the government. Russian government practically always have been authocratic. Only longlasting democratic (kind of) period there was Novgorod and Pskov republics in late middle ages. 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If someone thinks that what Russians are doing in Ukraine is far away, unrelated and unbelievable, just reminding that in 1940 they did the same with Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. August 5, 1940: after military intervention there since October 1939 #otd 063
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The annexation of Latvia was amongst major episodes in the early stages of the Second World War. It was enabled by the secret protocols of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, where Stalin and Hitler divided Eastern Europe into "spheres of influence". #Colonialism 4/4 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026To prepare the annexation, the Soviet authorities imposed a puppet government and organised fraudulent, undemocratic "elections" what resulted in proclamation of Soviet rule in Latvia and "request" for Latvia’s incorporation into the USSR. 3/4 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Soviet troops had already entered Latvia in October 1939. On 17 June 1940, following attacks on Latvian border posts and the abduction of civilians during the night of 14–15 June and Soviet ultimatum of 16 June, the Red Army occupied the entire territory of Latvia. 2/4 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026On this day: On 5 August 1940, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a law admitting the Latvian SSR into the Soviet Union, completing the seizure of Latvia through its formal annexation. #OTD #BalticHistory #SovietHistory #LatvianHistory 1/4 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Latvijas aneksija PSRS sastāvā ir viens no nozīmīgiem Otrā pasaules kara posmiem, ko noteica Molotova-Ribentropa paktā panāktā vienošanās starp Staļinu un Hitleru par Austrumeiropas sadali "ietekmes zonās" un turpmākā šo valstu okupāciju. #koloniālisms 4/4 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Aneksijas sagatavošanai PSRS varasiestādes Latvijā noteica marionešu valdības izveidi un falsificētu vēlēšanu sarīkošanu, kas rezultējās ar padomju varas pasludināšanu Latvijā. 3/4 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Padomju Armija Latvijā bija iegājusi jau 1939. gada oktobrī un 1940. gada 17. jūnijā pēc uzbrukuma Latvijas robežsardzes posteņiem un civiliedzīvotāju nolaupīšanas naktī uz 15. jūniju un 16.jūnija ultimāta, militāri okupēja visu Latviju. 2/4 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Šī diena vēsturē. 1940. gada 5. augustā PSRS, pasludinot Latvijas iekļaušanu savā sastāvā pabeidza Latvijas sagrābšanu ar tās formālu aneksiju PSRS sastāvā. #otd #BalticHistory #SovietHistory 1/4 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Russia (no matter in its imperial, Bolshevistic or contemporal form) has a really long list of territories it attempted to conquer, colonize and swallow. The great source to understand Western awareness on that is American The Puck magazine of late XIX, early XX Centuries. 010
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Mākslīgais intelekts var būt noderīgs palīgs, taču tā izmantošana studiju darbu vietā liedz studentiem pašiem attīstīt zināšanas un prasmes. Tostarp prasmes izmantot šo rīku.jauns.lvPasniedzējs pieķer 32 no 35 studentiem krāpjamies ar mākslīgo intelektu - viņus nodod viens vārdsASV universitātes profesors izdomājis neparastu veidu, kā pārbaudīt, vai studenti gala darbā izmantojuši mākslīgo intelektu. 010
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026RIP Marģers Vestermanis. Viens no nedaudzajiem, kas vēl bija aktīvi Otrā pasaules kara traģēdiju pētniekiem, kas uz savas ādas šīs traģēdijas bija piedzīvojuši un iznesuši. Priecājos, ka bija iespēja pazīt. www.academia.edu/120... www.apollo.lv/851869... 010
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Biogrāfiskās vārdnīcas ir brīnišķīgs resurss, kas saaudzē kopā institucionālos un personīgos vēstures stāstus. #HistoryTheory #BalticHistory #SourceCriticism 010
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Blackface ir labi zināms kultūras vēstures fenomens, kas Rietumu (ASV un Eiropas) kultūrā kopš 20.gadsimta otras puses piedzīvojis plašu nosodījumu un ir atzīts kā uzbrūkošs, nievājošs, aizvainojošs un kultūras vidē nepieņemams. Krievijā oficiālā attieksme pret to ir cita. 1111
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026We are having historians who have became presidents and we have presidents who becomes "historians".... A warning path all across the World. 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Ironically, despite taking more photographs than any generation before us, we may leave behind fewer images that tell the story of our lives and our children's childhoods. #HistoryTheory #SourceCriticism 3/3 000
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Since digital photography replaced film, we've taken millions of photos—but many remain buried in our phones until they disappear with a broken device, a forgotten password, or simply the passage of time. 2/3 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026We often say that photographs capture a moment, freeze time, preserve history, or even immortalize people and events. That was true when every frame mattered. That ended around 1999. 1/3 111