https://x.com/QaziShahid786/status/2036175506526314823
Someone asked for source. Author sd it was inside tip and demurrd : "Sources don't get betrayed... A hint is enough for the wise; the Irleadership will have to tread carefully!"
1st part of that pst makes no sense but maybe on purpose
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"History will also record that in the twenty-first century, there were two such nations who waged war against that oppressive and arrogant system, in front of which other countries could not even utter a "uff."
Long live Afghanistan and Iran !"
https://x.com/sHaidarHashmi/status/2036124180907720766
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Speaking of the anti-Communist Russian White Army that fought the Bolsheviks in the 1920s, remnants of that very brave group made their way to Harbin, Manchuria and settled there.
But - when the Chinese Communists arrived, suddenly the White Russians were forced to 1st share their houses with one Communist Chinese. Then a whole Chinese family took over the Russian dwelling, putting the Russian family into the cellar with no heat.
The Chinese relegated the anti-Communist Russians into worse and worse living conditions until, after Mao's takeover, they ordered the Russians and other foreigners to leave China.
The treatment was terrible - but that's how the Maoists were toward people who didn't believe in their politics.
Especially disliked were believers in a religion instead of atheism.
Iverskaya Church, Harbin
I'm sure that prejudice played some role too in the ill-treatment of the Russian Orthodox emigres in China by the ruthless Maoists.
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Recall that the Holy Prophet Jonah lived in Nineveh
"More than 2700 years ago, the engineers of Nineveh were solving problems that most of the ancient world had not yet learned to ask....
The city they were building for was the largest in the world at the time, a capital that King Sennacherib was expanding with the deliberate ambition of a man who understood that the physical scale of a city was itself a political statement.
Nineveh sat in the northern reaches of Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq, in a landscape that was fertile enough to sustain life but not reliably enough to sustain an empire.
The rivers were there. The hills were there. What was missing was the infrastructure to connect them to a city that needed more water than its immediate surroundings could provide.
Sennacherib built the infrastructure.
What emerged over the decades of his reign was a hydraulic network of a scale and sophistication that had no parallel in the ancient world at the time it was constructed.
A system of canals drew water from rivers and streams in the hills to the north and east of the city and carried it across the intervening landscape through channels cut into the rock and earth with a precision that required both advanced surveying knowledge and an enormous coordinated labor force.
The water traveled significant distances, maintaining a gradient carefully calculated to keep it moving without losing pressure or volume, arriving at Nineveh to supply the palace gardens, the orchards, the households of the city, and the broader population of a capital that at its height may have held over one hundred thousand people.
One element of this system survives in a form that makes the engineering achievement impossible to dismiss.
At Jerwan, roughly fifty kilometres north of Nineveh, the remains of an ancient aqueduct still stand.
Built from over two million dressed stone blocks, it carried a canal across a valley on a series of arches, maintaining the water's elevation above the terrain below.
An inscription from Sennacherib describes the construction in terms that make no attempt at modesty: he called it a wonder for all peoples.
He was not wrong. The aqueduct at Jerwan predates the more famous Roman aqueducts by several centuries and demonstrates a command of hydraulic principles that would not be equaled in the western world for hundreds of years.
The gardens that all this water fed were not simply decorative. They were part of the political architecture of the capital in the most literal sense.
Sennacherib described what ancient sources sometimes call his palace garden in terms that suggest a deliberately constructed environment of extraordinary variety, with trees and plants brought from across the empire's territories, watered by channels that ran through the grounds and kept the air cooler and the vegetation green in a climate that would otherwise have made such abundance impossible.
Whether this constitutes ancient air conditioning in any technical sense is a question modern writers have enjoyed arguing about.
What it constitutes, without argument, is a controlled environment created through engineering, in a region where the ability to produce such an environment was the clearest possible demonstration of imperial reach and organizational power.
To build what Sennacherib built required knowledge that had to be accumulated and transmitted across generations.
A famous painting of Nineveh by Ruggero Giovannini"
https://x.com/archeohistories/status/20 ... 3359729889
