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Read More »Matfey Shaheen — Vladimir Putin “I slept with a SHOTGUN beside my bed”
The 1990’s were among the four worst periods in Russian history, which collectively were:The Mongol Invasion of 1240 — Including all the events that went with it, the fall of Kiev, the sundering of Ukraine and Belarus from the territory of modern Russia, their partition into Lithuanian Rus’, and later Rzeczpospolita (Poland-Lithuania). The Time of Troubles 1598-1613 The Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and events that followed the 1990s (which happened in the 1990’s believe it or not) Russia...
Read More »Stephen F. Cohen — The Unheralded Putin—Russia’s Official Anti-Stalinist No. 1
Professor Cohen puts to bed the charge that Vladimir Putin is a Stalinist, a crypto-Stalinist, or is trying to rehabilitate Stalin. I would compare the Russian attitudes — there is a wide range of it — to American attitudes and now raging controversies about people formerly regarded as American heroes over their connection with slavery. This is epitomized in the demand to remove stature of Confederate heroes and it is also reflected in the controversy over slave ownership by the...
Read More »John Helmer — Beggared for Choice – the History of Russia’s 1917 Revolutions as Guide to What Happens Next
Short review of Stephen Smith's Russia in Revolution, An Empire in Crisis, 1890-1928. Conclusion. Since the new war against Russia began in 2014, it has been the foreign plan that if enough pain is inflicted on the Russian people economically, especially their businessmen, they will rebel against their leaders in the Kremlin. Combined with economic warfare and fighting on the Syrian and Ukrainian fronts, the plan also calls for a home-front campaign against the corruption of Russian...
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