Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Friday, April 19, 2024

Yaroslav Trofimov, Our Enemies Will Vanish

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At Amazon, Yaroslav Trofimov, Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence . #CommissionEarned
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91

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One of the biggest, most important leaders of the second half of the 20th century. He wrought monumental change, literally bringing about th...
Monday, May 2, 2022

International Workers' Day

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Yesterday, actually, May 1st. According to Wikipedia," the date was chosen in 1889 for political reasons by the Marxist International S...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

Geoffrey P. Megargee, War of Annihilation

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At Amazon, Geoffrey P. Megargee, War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 .  
Sunday, April 3, 2022

David Glantz, When Titans Clashed

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At Amazon, David Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler .
Thursday, March 24, 2022

History Is Speeding Up: Vindication for Neoconservatism

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An amazing essay from John Podhoretz, at Commentary , "Neoconservatism: A Vindication": In 2022, the idea that Vladimir Putin’s...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Kalashnikov Automatic Rifle

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Small-arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov created this weapon in 1947, the Avtomat Kalashnikov (Автомат Калашникова), thus the AK-47. History...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (An Experiment In Literary Investigation - Nobel Prize Winning Complete Three Volume Trade P...

Jeremy Friedman, Ripe for Revolution

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Jeremy Friedman, Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World .
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Vasily Grossman, Everything Flows

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From the blurb : Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, ...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Origins of the Nuclear Taboo

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I heavily discount Russian threats to deploy nuclear weapons against the U.S. and its allies should the latter intervene militarily in the ...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Anne Applebaum, Red Famine

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Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine .
Monday, February 28, 2022

Ukraine: Fighting Continues as Peace Talks End (VIDEO)

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I'm not exactly sure what was to be expected of the negotiations, especially since Putin was simultaneously bombing the hell out of civi...

Federal Government Warns Americans to Mask, Social Distance While Sheltering From Nuclear Explosions

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From Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, " IT’S COME TO THIS ." And on Twitter .
Sunday, February 27, 2022

In Dramatic Shift, Germany Begins Military Rearmament

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You have to think about Germany for a second.  It's been 77 years since the end of World War II. In the first half of the 20th century, ...

Europe's Dependence on Russia's Natural Gas Supplies Following the Invasion of Ukraine

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Oil. Petroleum. Fossils fuels. No matter how much radical environmentalists deceive the leaders of the developed democracies, the fact remai...

Putin's Looking to Rebuild Russia's Empire

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 It's Niall Ferguson, at the Spectator U.K. , " Vlad the Invader ." The pun refers to Vlad the Impaler: ‘War’, in Prussian mil...

Can Ukraine's Resistance Defeat the Russian Army?

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This was published before armed hostilities broke out Thursday. At War on the Rocks, " Can Ukrainian Resistance Foil a Russian Victory?...

Putin Raises Tensions by Putting Nuclear Forces on High Alert (VIDEO)

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Starting up today's Ukraine coverage. Check back throughout the day. At the New York Times , " Live Updates: Ukraine Agrees to Talk...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Ukraine Civilians Take Up Arms Against Russian Invaders (VIDEO)

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Vitali Klitschko, the Mayor of Kyiv and the World Boxing Council's heavyweight champion, with his brother Wladimir (also a world champio...