An overview of books and publications on alternative views of the military history of WWII 1939-1941. Possible applications and some similarities with the Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine and the EU’s response....
Most commentaries assume that the Moscow-backed secessionist “Donetsk Republic” arose in response to the Maidan at the end of last year and the beginning of this, but in fact, Sobkorr.ru reports, an online group promoting...
Commentators in Moscow and the West ever more frequently draw parallels between Vladimir Putin’s ideas and actions and those of fascist regimes in the first part of the 20th century, but few have focused on the fact that one of the...
The way in which many in Russia and elsewhere view Stepan Bandera and his anti-Soviet movement during World War II is “an example of the big lie of the Soviet system” and its influence in post-Soviet times, according to...
Wings Phoenix, one of Ukraine’s volunteers supplying the Army with necessary equipment, shared a story from the frontlines. The Russian propaganda machine frequently portrays the Ukrainian Army as a fascist movement that disrespects...
Anastasiya Ringis, Ukrainska Pravda Life Historian Andrey Zubov is one of the first Russian intellectuals who openly spoke out against the annexation of Crimea. On July 1st, the professor who opposes the Kremlin’s official line, was...
by Vitalii Usenko and Dmytro Usenko Russia and Russian-backed terrorists are starting to use new tactics. Openly demonstrative fire aimed at uninhabited Russian territories bordering on Ukraine was reported by Ukraine’s...
After the declaration of independence in 1991, Ukraine inherited 800,000 forces from the Soviet Union. Not even in the worst nightmare could one imagine that 23 years later Ukraine would need to protect the right to its own existence and...
How the Nazi system destroyed individuality, how individuals resisted the system and the monstrously destructive psychological field, which strategies were used by the Nazis in order to make individuals into biomass When preparing for the...
Sixty years ago this week, non-Russian prisoners rose up in Kengir against their Soviet GULAG jailors. They were crushed by Soviet tanks, with at least 600 losing their lives in the process. But this rising, despite its defeat, in fact...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...