My maternal grandmother -Winnifred Gibson (1918-1999) – worked as the Manager of the NAAFI in RAMC Holton Park [Wheatley] Military Hospital in post-WWII East Oxfordshire.
Tag: Cold War
Grunya Sukhareva (Груня Сухарева) [1891-1981] – Forgotten Soviet Pioneer of ‘Autism’ Research (1925)
During her lifetime, Sukhareva opened such schools all over the country. However, its influence and authority did not go beyond Soviet borders, which was the result of political and language barriers. Only a small part of the Soviet research of that time was translated into other languages, very often it was German rather than English. Although her work of 1925 was translated into German the following year, the translation was unsuccessful, even the name of the author of the work was distorted as “Ssuchareva”. The work was translated into English only in 1996, 15 years after Sukhareva’s death, when Sula Wolff, a British psychiatrist, stumbled upon it.
Declassified: Official Soviet Losses During the Great Patriotic War Amount to Nearly 42 million (1941-1945)
As a result, partial statistics were given-out which were ‘correct’ from a particular context. As no one had access to the total number except a trusted few – the onus was all about a rapid reconstruction of the Soviet infrastructure (including the building of houses and the caring for the millions of people missing limbs and who had been made disabled etc), and a military preparation for an unprovoked attack from the US and their allies! All this was going on whilst the Soviet Space Programme was developing the technology which would soon shock the world – all under the guidance of the ‘elected’ General Secretary – Joseph Stalin – the last great leader the USSR would have!
Book Review: The Hitler Virus by Peter Wyden (12.1.2022)
There is something very ‘wrong’ with this book and it is not just the nature of the very real and active threat of neo-Nazism throughout
Japanese War Criminal – Saburo Sakai (坂井三郎 ): An example of Post-WWII US Rehabilitation and Lies!
“Had I been ordered to bomb Seattle or Los Angeles in order to end the war, I wouldn’t have hesitated. So, I perfectly understand why
Book Review: MUFON: CIA UFO Papers (2017)
In 2017, the CIA uploaded one million files concerning UFOs onto its (publicly accessible) permanent website. These files had previously been Top Secret when first
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 