Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the symbols of the Cold War, Europe remains divided because it chose confrontation over
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Why Germany Attacked the Soviet Union
As dawn was breaking on Sunday morning, June 22, 1941, military forces of Germany, Finland and Romania suddenly struck against the Soviet Union along a
What the Dismantling of the Berlin Wall Means 30 Years Later
Some anniversaries are less about the past than the future. So it should be with November 9, 1989. In case you’ve long forgotten, that was
What is “BLOODLANDS” and Why Do We Need to Expose It?
WHAT is “BLOODLANDS” and WHY DO WE NEED to EXPOSE IT? In 2010 a book was published that rewrites the history of the Soviet Union,
Who Won, and Who Lost, World War II?
Sunday, the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Vice President Mike Pence spoke in Warsaw’s Pilsudski Square of “five decades of untold suffering
Cheering a New Arms Race: The End of the INF
US President Donald Trump is a master of the withdrawal method. That said, it is often forgotten that the United States remains that most fickle
What Is the World’s Most Corrupt Country?
Is it the country that corrupts the staff, the employees, of the UN? (No other country has the power to do that. This one does,
The Lessons of Chernobyl: It’s the West That Now Needs Glasnost
The much-acclaimed series ‘Chernobyl’ tells the story of the 1986 nuclear disaster and the authorities’ attempts to play it down. Ironically, 33 years on, it’s
