the making of the american gulag

As the United States increasingly accused its own citizens of being subversives, assuming them to be guided by a foreign power, the widely shared images of repression in Soviet society—prisons, exile, staged trials, and the “police apparatus”— became the preeminent security tools to protect the..

the hitler-stalin pact, a reply

Later in that same year, Polish generals visited Berlin and Dresden to hold talks with German counterparts, and joint action against Czechoslovakia was addressed during Berlin meetings of the political bigwigs, including Hitler himself, Goering, Ribbentrop, and, on the Polish side, the Germanophile Beck,..

ukraine on brink of war with russia?

Trump had no idea what he was getting into if elected president – co-opted straightaway to go along with longstanding dirty business as usual, Cold War 2.0 escalated on his watch, more intense and dangerous than against Soviet Russia. . Incidents like the Black Sea/Kerch Strait provocation..

signs around the world

In the lobby of Moscow Hotel, across from Russian Orthodox Monastery YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY, WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS, AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY, EXCEPT THURSDAY.. sign posted Germany's Black Forest IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR BLACK FOREST..

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