My Complaint: During WWII the Soviet Union – led by the great Joseph Stalin – were Allies of the UK during the darkest days of
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My Complaint: During WWII the Soviet Union – led by the great Joseph Stalin – were Allies of the UK during the darkest days of
It strikes me that the type of US anti-intellectualism that has allowed the history of the USSR to be distorted in the way it has, is exactly the same inverted mind-set that voted the fascist Donald Trump into power, and concocted all kinds of racist, sexist and ablest policies that culminated in the fake ‘fixed’ election story – and the Trump inspired ‘White Supremacy’ march upon the Congress building situated in Washington DC! This type of utter stupidity is distinctly American – but it is not new. In the past decades its dictates were accepted without question – but we live in a very different world today. US anti-intellectualism is now under the microscope and the entire world now knows what it looks like!
What Can We Learn From a Nazi Time Capsule? Contemporary Poland eulogises the Nazi German partition and brutal occupation that occurred between 1939-1945 – an occupation that
Translator’s Note: The NKVD [Internal Security] Troops – existed in one form or another – from 1918-1991. Elements of these troops tried to defend the
Translator’s Note: Within a number of not too complimentary Western (bourgeois) accounts of the ‘Great Patriotic War’ (1941-1945) – it is often stated (without credible
Author’s Note: Russian-language records contained in the Soviet Archive (now available online) state that when the Soviet Red Army swept through the Ukraine in 1944,