Russia weaponizes history in its war against Ukraine, – British Intelligence
The title image of this post is a screenshot of the UK Defence Intelligence review on Twitter dated 11 November. The author of...
‘Kremlin’ derives from Tartar word for fortress
British traveler of the 18th century Dr. Clarke sounded very confident describing the etymology of the word 'Kremlin'. In his bestselling...
Stalin re-established the Russian Orthodox Church in 1943. Why?
After the Bolshevik Coup of 1917, the Russian Orthodox church was forbidden and many cathedrals were ruined. But for some reason,...
Androphagi-Cannibals of the ancient Europe described by Herodotus lived in the area of present-day...
"These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching eastward a three days' journey to a river called Panticapes, and northward as far...
Zhukov described to Eisenhower the Russian way to cross minefield in WW2: “Our infantry...
In his book of wartime memoirs Eisenhower: Crusade in Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower recollects his conversation with Marshal Zhukov, which shocked him: “During...
Lenin created an ‘avatar’ of Ukraine after suppressing true Ukrainian State
Harvard History Professor Richard Pipes in his The Formation of the Soviet Union provided the timetable of how the Bolsheviks addressed 'the Ukrainian...
In 1999, Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova by end of 2002
OTD in 1999, the OSCE conference took place in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova & Georgia by...
Crimean War of 1853
The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856[ between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire,...
Forensic facial reconstruction of the ‘Russian’ ruler Andrey Bogolyubsky who allegedly destroyed Kyiv in...
Forensic facial reconstruction was made by famous Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov. Among some 200 faces Gerasimov reconstructed are also the...
Ukraine’s new tank can take on Russia’s best, but Kyiv can’t afford it, –...
"When Kiev announced it would revive the same spirit of industry that bred its Soviet-era tank manufacture, boosting production for a new...
