Why did Stalin declare war on Japan?Joseph Stalin:Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II. Early in the war, he signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler and the two nations divided Poland in 1939. In 1941, Hitler turned on the Soviets and invaded Russia in...
We can help Ukraine fight to restore its sovereign borders or support a negotiated settlement, with Ukraine earlier ceding to Russian annexation in 2014, along with its beaches and vast farmlands. It is difficult to know, with Ukraine’s vast natural gas resources where Russia might want to dra...
Mikhail Tukhachevskyserved as a Second Lieutenant in the Tsar’s army during WWI. He was taken prisoner in 1915 and escaped four times. He finally got away on his fifth attempt and returned to Russia in 1917. After the Revolution, he joined the Bolshevik Party and the Red Army. D...
There is already no lack of intervention in the Middle East as well as in Ukraine . But the military interventions in Libya (led by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates), Yemen (led by Saudi Arabia), Syria (by Russia and Iran as well as Turkey and the United States), and Ukraine (by ...
"Our practice in the Ukraine showed clearly that the peasant problem had very different solutions from those imposed by Bolshevism. If our experience had spread to the rest of Russia, a pernicious division between country and city would not have been created. Years of famine would have been avo...
For decades governments in the US, Russia, Britain, France, China and probably other nations who think they could one day be contenders, have been trying to weaponise diseases. We have encountered such things as GERM WARFARE in novels and movies, but it is less well known that experiments ...
This week's news so far has focused on the worsening situation in the middle east, as western leaders appear to be accepting that there was from day one no way Ukraine could win its war with Russia and that since US and NATO leaders refused to allow Ukraine to negotiate a settlement ...
Why did Russia defend Serbia in the Bosnian Crisis? Why did Toyotomi Hideyoshi unify Japan? Why did civil war break out in Yugoslavia? Why was there a war in Sarajevo? Why did Woodrow Wilson decide to enter World War I? Why was Crimea chosen for the Yalta Conference? Why did Japan want...
It also hovers over the conflict in Ukraine, where some Russian speakers who live in the southeast and Crimea prefer not to live in Ukraine as a minority but rather to live in Russia as part of the majority. The issues that arose in the Balkans were not unique to the Balkans. When not...
It also hovers over the conflict in Ukraine, where some Russian speakers who live in the southeast and Crimea prefer not to live in Ukraine as a minority but rather to live in Russia as part of the majority. The issues that arose in the Balkans were not unique to the Balkans. When not...