History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind– Edward Gibbon Counterfactual history is generally a waste of
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Putin Reminds the West: Those Who Ignore History Are Doomed to Repeat it
President Putin recently stirred up a hornets nest by reminding the western nations of their own complicity in supporting the rise of Nazism long before
From Colluding With Hitler Against the USSR to an Anti-Hitler Coalition
“That the Russian armies should stand on this line was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia” On the eve of the Second World War,
Capitalism’s Suicidal Trajectory
If we make it out of the climate emergency, we may come to view the few decades usually described simply as the Cold War that
Did the Fall of the Berlin Wall Produce the Trump Presidency?
The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago. It was one of the few unambiguously joyous moments in modern history. This popular, nonviolent explosion of dissent
We Are On a Path of War Again
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
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
