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James Oliver is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He has an interest in history and covering the parts of notably Eastern European history normally forgotten. Follow James on twitter at @historyboy77
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2017/04/19 - 20:52 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
Read the previous parts: 1) The interwar prelude 2) Hitler’s Anschluss In the West, much sympathy existed with Hitler on the basis that the treaty of Versailles had treated Germany too harshly and the belief that Hitler was simply...
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2017/03/28 - 21:17 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
Read the previous part: The interwar prelude If Stalin had an ambition for the conquest of Poland, so also did Adolf Hitler. The advances that Germany made against Imperial Russia prior to 1918 fed into the German nationalist concepts of...
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2017/03/18 - 05:37 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
More than we think, Soviet propaganda has influenced the way in which many see World War II. This is perhaps most telling when discussions of its early period (1939—41) are raised. “Protective” invasion? In conventional...
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2016/11/04 - 01:25 •
Culture, History
Over the last year the Holodomor has garnered much needed additional publicity, in part due to the current situation in Ukraine but in the West discussion of it is still often met howith the look of confused faces and a great deal of...
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2015/09/15 - 20:34 •
Analysis & Opinion
On 5 July 1933, a desperate appeal for food aid was sent to Stalin from within the Bashkir ASSR. The Bashkirs are a small Turkic ethnic group that mostly reside in a region just to the north and west of Kazakhstan, and in 1933 Stalin had...
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2015/07/26 - 06:00 •
Featured, History
On May 22 Volodymyr Katriuk, a Ukrainian World War II veteran and a suspected participant in the massacre of the 186 inhabitants of the Belarusian village of Khatyn 1 passed away in Canada. For years his name had been at the center of a...
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2015/06/11 - 20:05 •
Featured, History
On 19 September 1939, advanced units of the Soviet 6th army reached the outskirts of the city of Lviv. What they found was a city that had already been subject to relentless bombardment from German artillery placed upon nearby hills as...
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2015/05/08 - 15:33 •
Featured, History
On April 11 1935, a document titled “Valuable Declarations” was published in translated form for the eyes of the top brass of the Polish army. The author was Wsiewołod Zmijenko, a Ukrainian born Polish general who had served...
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2015/04/27 - 23:31 •
History
One of the recurring themes of Soviet apologetics vis-à-vis contemporary Russian apologetics is the way the early part of WW2 revolves around the concept that what the Soviet Union did between 1939-41 constitutes building its defences and...
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2015/04/21 - 00:28 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
On August 23, 1932, a secret circular for the economic division of the secret police (OGPU) of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) was published “regarding the fight against speculators.” Stalin’s...
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