and forms of minor dissidence such asBrezhnev jokesbecame commonplace, the prospect of the revolutionary cult became less threatening in the eyes of the average Russian. In turn, jokes about Revolution leaders became much sillier. For example, this one took a satirical angle on the growing...
On July 7, 1770, during the Russian–Turkish war of 1768–1774, the Russian fleet won one of its greatest ever victories. As a result of the Battle of Chesme Bay, a significant part of the Ottoman fleet was destroyed. The Turks lost 15 battleships, six frigates and many smaller vessels....
World leaders are faced with making important decisions every day, and information is the key to making the right decision. How many troops does your enemy have? How far are they in developing their secret weapons? Are they planning to negotiate a trade deal with another country? Are some...
The United States government wasinitially hostile to the Soviet leaders for taking Russia out of World War Iand was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. ... However, the Soviet stance on human rights and its invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 created new tensions between the two ...
Mikva is one of many influential Chicago Jews who have been among Obama’s earliest and most ardent backers. Through their large financial contributions and influence peddling, Obama’s Chicago enablers insured for themselves both a place in his administration and political leverage serving Jewish inte...
Failure to take timely action means work piles up, problems arise, patients suffer, and the PCP is the linchpin in fixing the problems they have refused to take timely action upon! You see this in too many primary care clinics at the VA. The nurses don’t work well with patients, the ...
After the fall of the USSR, the whole region started to collapse. Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan gained independence. The new Russian Federation didn’t want to let other Caucasian nations have their own countries. Chechens decided to fight for that. Many of them were experienced soldiers fig...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted much ill-informed comment in nationalist circles. Many nationalists have chosen to believe an online fantasy world in which Vladimir Putin is really an Alt-Right or White Nationalist culture warr...
I have never understood why so many senior officials think we need to give in each time to the EU. At every Council I attended there was remorseless pressure to reach an agreement about some new law – always an extension of EU power – when there was no need for a new law and when...
The initial spark for each of these concurrent countercultural upheavals was struck by a relatively small number of courageous leaders or creative innovators, and was fanned into flame by similarly small numbers of early-adopters. Of course, in the early-to-mid-sixties, much of America wa...