The enduring lessons of Stalin’s wartime endgame
If Western efforts to contain Soviet expansionism taught us anything, it is that the only way to deter totalitarian thugs is to confront them.
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World War II / WW2 / Second World War (1939-1945)
US President Biden: US weapons will not be used to strike Moscow, Kremlin
US President Joe Biden was adamant that US weapons would not be used to strike Moscow or the Kremlin after he authorized Ukraine to use them in Russia.
Zelenskyy in France for D-Day anniversary, calls for ”true unity” to prevail
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Normandy on Thursday 6 June to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings on D-Day during the Second World War.
Russian flags banned at WW2 end commemoration in Berlin
Last year’s ban included both Russian and Ukrainian symbols, but this year German court ruling lifted the prohibition on Ukrainian symbols.
History repeating: I evacuated my family from war just like my grandfather in 1941
We always have to say our goodbyes, and each one blends into the last. In 1941, my grandfather…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
Moscow’s continuing lies about Katyn ‘analogous to Holocaust denials,’ Romanov says
In December last year, an all-Russian television channel owned by Gazprom Media showed a four-part series on the…
It took Red Army ‘a decade’ to subdue Western Ukraine after 1945, Russian specialist on Ukraine warns Kremlin
Anyone thinking about a Russian invasion of Ukraine today should remember that it took the Red Army at…
Ukrainian Insurgent Army: the glory, the mistakes, and the sins
The 14th of October is a special day for Ukrainians. This day, which traditionally was celebrated as the Orthodox holiday of the Intercession of the Theotokos, in 2015 became the Day of the Defender of Ukraine. Traditionally, it has been the holiday of Ukrainian Cossack warriors (1491-1775) and, now, a day of soldiers fighting the Russian aggression since 2014. Also, on 14th October 1942, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was founded, even though its first units operated since 1941.
The last hiding place place of Jews escaping Holocaust in Lviv unearthed
Historical background During World War II, millions of people were murdered by Nazis across Europe, including Jews, Poles,…
Black is white, freedom is slavery, and Stalin’s invasion of Poland was ‘a liberation campaign,’ Russian Foreign Ministry says
In Putin’s increasingly Orwellian approach to the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the introduction…
“Here I see God”: Omelian Kovch, the Ukrainian priest who saved hundreds of Jews & died in Majdanek concentration camp
On January 9, 1999, the Jewish Council of Ukraine proclaimed Omelian Kovch a “Righteous of Ukraine”. Until his…
May 14: Day of Remembrance of Ukrainians who saved Jews during World War II
As of January 1, 2020, 2,659 Ukrainians have been honoured by the State of Israel with the title…
WWII “victory” was Soviet occupation of western Ukraine and half of Europe
If, for Western Europe, the end of the war meant the victory of democracy, for Ukraine, it meant the enforcement of Stalinism. In the words of Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukraine was “in the heart of darkness” during the Second World War, with Ukrainians mostly fighting for the interests of other states and, along with Poland, suffering the heaviest human losses of the war. Unpunished communist crimes grow, making it appropriate for Russia to start new war in 2014.
Memory wars and other battles
Let’s take a look at how Russia remembers its history. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently tried…
Russia’s “ping pong” policy on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Read also: The real reason the Kremlin will never completely disown the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact In late May, Aleksey…
COVID-19 conspiracies, WWII revisionism, schadenfreude at US protests: Russian propaganda last week
Last week’s cases take us on a frenzied ride through several topics that have been preoccupying the pro-Kremlin…
95 percent of Russians now say victory in 1945 was main event for Russia in the 20th century
Such views were more widely held among older Russians and less widely among younger ones, but, according to…
Hanna from the forests of Volyn: life & death in Ravensbrück KZ
And yet: we will return we will definitely return at least – with our feet forward but: not…
The Man and the Nation nobody expected: Andrei Sheptytskyi and Ukraine
History knows providential people. History remembers people, who correspond with their very nature to what a nation and…