https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/curtiss/1941/11/staltheory.html In a few short years, the Communist International went from being a beacon of internationalism and world revolution to a tool for the narrow, national interests of the Soviet bureaucracy. How and why did this happen...
Unable to agree on a unified Korean government, the world’s most powerful allies (the United States and the Soviet Union) split the country. The US occupied the Republic of Korea (in the South) while the Soviets did the same in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)....
The workers could not tell what had happened to them. They talked aboutstrange forces, but no one believed them. The police launched an investigation, but all they could find out was that the victims did not know each other, and one of them did not speak Hungarian at all as he was a...
and despite the widespread opposition to US involvement (see Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, or the “America First” movement), war was achieved which led to the destruction of Germany, the empowerment of the Soviet Union (Jewish political involvement) and the creation of Israel–the Jewish-only...
Weeks later, with someone who knew her as well as I did, and with no idea of what I could possibly begin to say, a provisional apophatic eulogy was drafted, going something like this: Anna Reinelt was someone who wanted to leave the world a better place than she found it, and she ...
The U.S. bombing of Laos (1964-1973) was part of a covert attempt by the CIA to wrest power from the communist Pathet Lao, a group allied with North Vietnam and theSoviet Unionduring theVietnam War. The officially neutral country became a battleground in theCold Warbetween the United ...
But things started falling apart in the final years of the Soviet Union, 亚美尼亚对阿塞拜疆提出领土申诉 于是民族矛盾爆发 Armenia, laid territorial claims against Azerbaijan, ethnic tensions erupted, 几十年间煞费苦心建立起的信任就在几周之内被摧毁了 ...
The Leopard 2 is the most popular tank in the free world. It was so advanced for its time that even the mighty American M1 Abrams has some Leopard 2 DNA in it.
Did the Egyptians tend to believe one or the other of these explanations? No, for both are represented in the same tomb. The subterranean halls of the tomb itself represent the journey through the Underworld, which is described by texts on the walls. So the Egyptians had no difficulty, in...
the Soviet Union could adopt Western technology while forcibly mobilizing resources to implement and utilize such technology. An intense focus on industrialization and urbanization at the expense of personal consumption gave the Soviet Union a period of rapid modernization. However, once the country ...