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🇮🇱🇺🇦🇺🇸 Valdaveroniah Karpen
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Cold War, Housekeeper and professional bear poker. Former IC, asset and survivor of many hells. Research on espionage, war, counterterrorism, transnational organized crime, geopolitics. Author of the forthcoming book, Bad Girls Go To Berlin. End FGM.
This photo of me was taken without my permission by someone I didn’t know, passing by me as I walked a street in Pripyat near Chernobyl. It was years after the disaster and I was given an opportunity to visit.
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
September 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
July 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Sanar Institute is hosting the last in a series of virtual workshops tomorrow, Monday the 30th. Blossoming From Within
June 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
via Instagram
June 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum
June 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In memory of Chris Gueffroy, the last East Berlin citizen to be shot attempting to escape to the West. Born June 21, 1968. www.chronik-der-mauer.de/en/victims/1... #berlin #wall #coldwar #germany #inmemory #neverforget
May 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
May 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
All people who identify with each other and come together with common interests, especially regarding geographic locations of origin, have the right to try and create a nation for themselves without discrimination or oppression from others. This also applies to Palestinians.
May 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Just a reminder.
May 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Pan-European Picnic, 1989. Citizens from East Berlin were allowed to leave freely after living years in forced isolation. Wearing white, but not exactly walking away without a scratch.
Source: Melinda Harlov
May 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Just so everyone knows, if you call for “immense violence” in America or use any other form of inflammatory and inciting language, you’re supporting terrorism and I pray to God you suffer the consequences.
May 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
May 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Always…
May 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
April 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Happy Caturday! Or not so happy…
April 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Sometimes…
April 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Sunset after a storm
April 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Later 80’s or early 90’s in Afghanistan before the Taliban rose up and Najibullah was assassinated.
April 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
April 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
But, but…
April 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Men seek to control those they secretly fear. There is a reason for this. They know our power and fear our acts of empowerment.
April 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just stumbled upon this.

www.instagram.com/p/DCUVYBixbp4/
April 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Took a three mile walk today to get out and clear the cobwebs, and the interwebs.
April 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM