Pundits who haven’t visited Ukraine can’t understand it, Timothy Snyder in a conversation with Ivan Gomza Timothy Snyder, an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the...
Russia’s war against Ukraine is not only a war for territory. It is a war full of war crimes. Putin has already started massively killing civilians by bombarding residential buildings, launching missile strikes at city centers, and...
Many Russians blame their country’s moves toward fascism on Vladimir Putin alone, Lev Ponomaryov says. But it is “important in principle” to recognize that those pushing Russia in that direction include a far broader...
The Russian futurologist says that what happened across Europe in the 1930s is likely to be repeated given the depth of the current crisis. Then, Russia was insulated from that because of communism; but now, it is likely to be very much...
Here are some quotes from January 2020: “Mussolini was a brilliant man, giving the world a third path, on which Russia, in part, is moving.” “He developed the industry, built roads and supported advanced technology in...
Marx created the First International; Engels established the Second; Lenin, the Third; Trotsky, the Fourth; and now Vladimir Putin heads a Fifth International, although he hasn’t officially announced it and although this one, in...
The trigger was a NATO video about the so-called “Forest Brothers” – irregular units in the three Baltic states who fought against the Soviet occupying forces during and after World War II. NATO has...
Many commentators suggest that what Vladimir Putin is doing is restoring Sovietism, but they are mistaken, Aleksandr Skobov says. What is occurring is the final triumph of the ideas of what has been called “the Russian Party”...
Moscow has been abuzz in “Victory Day” fever for weeks. Toddlers, puppies and tanks are draped in the ubiquitous orange and black striped St. George Ribbon, a symbol previously associated with patriotic veterans and war heroes...
Over the past two years, many have written that the propaganda cult in Russia surrounding Victory Day is a profound desecration of the memory of those killed and maimed in the horrific Second World War. It’s hard to imagine...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
