‘Stalin broke every promise he made at Yalta,’ – President Roosevelt’s belated regret about...
At Yalta resort in 1945, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin to determine the fate of post-war Europe. Roosevelt misread Stalin—and proved...
After the Warsaw Uprising in November of 1830, Moscow declared that the Poles form...
The editors of Edward Clarke's Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey published in 1839 in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers described the events...
‘Russians’ have been sadistic cowards all their history. Ivan the Terrified is a symbol...
In 2022, the civilized world shuddered with horror at the images of executed civilians in the city of Bucha. Then there was the bombed...
Ungrateful Russians forget how many times Americans saved them: Russian Povolzhye Famine of 1921-22
In The Russian Job, Douglas Smith’s account of the American Relief Administration’s effort to alleviate the catastrophic famine that afflicted Russia from 1921-23, Smith tells...
‘Russia’ has the same relation to Kyiv Rus as the Guinea Pig to the...
According to Wikipedia, "despite their common name, guinea pigs are not native to Guinea, nor are they closely related biologically to pigs, and the...
Napoleon’s View of His Russian Campaign: only extreme and premature winter spoiled our triumph
Discourse at the Opening of the Legislative Body. Palais des Tuileries, Feb. 14, 1813. "I entered Russia. The French armies were constantly victorious on the...
History of Rus-Ukraine, history of Muscovy-Russia
The "Gardariki, Ukraine" e-book below explains why it is so.
Original Rus was centered in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pereyaslavl only; Even Novgorod was NOT...
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...
Phony ‘Potemkin villages’ explain a lot about Russian mindset, – Marquis de Custine in...
"In the midst of the fetes of Petersburg, I cannot forget the journey of Empress Catherine into the Crimea, and the facades of vilages,...
‘The Tale of Igor’s Campaign’ is a Ukrainian epic about repelling Asiatic forces including...
Per Wikipedia, 'The Tale of Igor's Campaign' is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. Britannica calls the poem 'The...
