Ned Richardson-Little
@historyned.bsky.social
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
BSW unveils its new party logo post-Sahra Wagenknecht.
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
BSW unveils its new party logo post-Sahra Wagenknecht.
If you want to read more about the opening of the Berlin Wall, you can check out my new book - The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you want to read more about the opening of the Berlin Wall, you can check out my new book - The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...
#otd in 1989, Günter Schabowski of the East German Socialist Unity Party (SED) held a press conference where he appeared to say that citizens could now travel more freely outside of the GDR. By the end of the day, the Berlin Wall had been opened and the stage set for the end of SED rule.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
#otd in 1989, Günter Schabowski of the East German Socialist Unity Party (SED) held a press conference where he appeared to say that citizens could now travel more freely outside of the GDR. By the end of the day, the Berlin Wall had been opened and the stage set for the end of SED rule.
Apparently he’s quite good
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Apparently he’s quite good
We are back to the CDU’s right wing dreaming of dumping the SPD and Merz leading a minority government. With 28% of the vote in the last election and plummeting pole numbers.
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We are back to the CDU’s right wing dreaming of dumping the SPD and Merz leading a minority government. With 28% of the vote in the last election and plummeting pole numbers.
"This volume, edited by Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little, constitutes a rare, refreshing, and promising move toward deactivating the mimetic drive that sustains Western-centric international legal alignment."
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"This volume, edited by Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little, constitutes a rare, refreshing, and promising move toward deactivating the mimetic drive that sustains Western-centric international legal alignment."
When someone from Windsor wrote the Wikipedia entry and no one from Montreal has read it
November 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
When someone from Windsor wrote the Wikipedia entry and no one from Montreal has read it
It’s funny how this is seen as peak West Wing when it was Sorkin just reaching back to the rhetoric of a big internal Republican fight in Reagan era politics
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 AM
It’s funny how this is seen as peak West Wing when it was Sorkin just reaching back to the rhetoric of a big internal Republican fight in Reagan era politics
Youppi! remains the greatest baseball mascot and it’s a crime that he was abandoned when the Expos got relocated from Montréal.
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Youppi! remains the greatest baseball mascot and it’s a crime that he was abandoned when the Expos got relocated from Montréal.
the only known image of Doug Ford defecting
October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
the only known image of Doug Ford defecting
It's normal that someone may not clock all forms of Nazi iconography on sight, but this is not something you can claim is ambiguous in good faith if you look at the evidence. It's like saying "how can you distinguish a swastika from a buch of lines at right angles?" Agnosticism as sophistry.
October 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It's normal that someone may not clock all forms of Nazi iconography on sight, but this is not something you can claim is ambiguous in good faith if you look at the evidence. It's like saying "how can you distinguish a swastika from a buch of lines at right angles?" Agnosticism as sophistry.
Since the 1990s, the concept of "narco-terrorism" has served to enable a militarized response to drug trafficking that has none of the safeguards of a standard international criminal investigation nor any of the legal standards needed to declare an actual war.
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Since the 1990s, the concept of "narco-terrorism" has served to enable a militarized response to drug trafficking that has none of the safeguards of a standard international criminal investigation nor any of the legal standards needed to declare an actual war.
Instead of walking back his statement about migration causing a problem for the German "Stadtbild" (loosely composition of the city), he has doubled-down saying that migrants make it unsafe for women to be out at night and now others in the CDU are upping this blanket claims about migrant terrorism.
October 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Instead of walking back his statement about migration causing a problem for the German "Stadtbild" (loosely composition of the city), he has doubled-down saying that migrants make it unsafe for women to be out at night and now others in the CDU are upping this blanket claims about migrant terrorism.
Two months since the book dropped and there are not many copies left from the first run - Order now while supplies last!
October 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Two months since the book dropped and there are not many copies left from the first run - Order now while supplies last!
Across Berlin, even in areas where polling stations were being run by Soviet occupation forces, the Social Democrats came in first. The SED came in third behind the SPD and Christian Democrats with less than 20%.
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Across Berlin, even in areas where polling stations were being run by Soviet occupation forces, the Social Democrats came in first. The SED came in third behind the SPD and Christian Democrats with less than 20%.
The SED ran on a relatively moderate nationalist platform of antifascism, while the Social Democrats ran directly against the SED as puppets of the Soviets who were responsible for the deprivation of reparations to the USSR and the mass rape committed by Red Army soldiers.
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The SED ran on a relatively moderate nationalist platform of antifascism, while the Social Democrats ran directly against the SED as puppets of the Soviets who were responsible for the deprivation of reparations to the USSR and the mass rape committed by Red Army soldiers.
When elections were called for October 20, 1946, the newly formed Socialist Unity Party (SED) was still forced to compete against the Social Democrats in Berlin, which was under occupation by all four allied powers.
October 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
When elections were called for October 20, 1946, the newly formed Socialist Unity Party (SED) was still forced to compete against the Social Democrats in Berlin, which was under occupation by all four allied powers.
The first response in Soviet Occupied Germany was to eliminate competition on the left by forcing the merger of the Communist Party (KPD) and the Social Democrats (SPD). Dissenters were intimidated, bought off or sent into exile in the Western Zones.
October 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The first response in Soviet Occupied Germany was to eliminate competition on the left by forcing the merger of the Communist Party (KPD) and the Social Democrats (SPD). Dissenters were intimidated, bought off or sent into exile in the Western Zones.
By the end of 1945, the prospects for using electoral democracy to establish communism in Soviet Occupied Eastern Europe were already hitting upon problems. In Hungary and Austria, the Communist party came in third place in national elections, behind conservative and social democratic parties.
October 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
By the end of 1945, the prospects for using electoral democracy to establish communism in Soviet Occupied Eastern Europe were already hitting upon problems. In Hungary and Austria, the Communist party came in third place in national elections, behind conservative and social democratic parties.
#OTD October 20, 1946, elections were held across Soviet Occupied Germany and in Allied Occupied Berlin. These were the last competitive elections in the Soviet Zone and marked a turning point leading to the creation of the German Democratic Republic as a socialist dictatorship.
October 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#OTD October 20, 1946, elections were held across Soviet Occupied Germany and in Allied Occupied Berlin. These were the last competitive elections in the Soviet Zone and marked a turning point leading to the creation of the German Democratic Republic as a socialist dictatorship.
we need more analog social media in our cities
October 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
we need more analog social media in our cities
Great moments in Canadian-German collaborations (this is the best I can come up with):
October 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Great moments in Canadian-German collaborations (this is the best I can come up with):
I'll be back at the @unierfurt.bsky.social on November 25 to speak about "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present" combining some of my older research on the GDR with recent work on the AfD and the far right.
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I'll be back at the @unierfurt.bsky.social on November 25 to speak about "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present" combining some of my older research on the GDR with recent work on the AfD and the far right.
Giant machinery nerds get this. It’s win win win win.
October 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Giant machinery nerds get this. It’s win win win win.