John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and sarcophagus of Yaroslav...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery on the cliff....
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the tenseness would not...
Invading Ukraine in 2014, Moscow used the same fake excuse as for invading Poland...
Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote:...
John Steinbeck depicts Kyiv after WW2
“War is no new thing to Kiev. Starting with
the raids of the savages from Tartary, it has been a place of war for thousands
of...
Strongest Soviet invasion Army of WW2. What was it doing in western Ukraine in...
Modern Russian as well as former Soviet propagandists have been trying to imply that the USSR began to form its armies only after World...
Ivan Kharchenko personally defused more than 1500 bombs weighing more than 500 kilograms each...
A Soviet Army Military engineering Colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union, Kharchenko continued his military service until retirement in 1964. Until...
John Steinbeck describes post-WW2 Ukraine. (1947 Kyiv trip)
Excerpts are from “A Russian Journal” written by John Steinbeck after his trip with a famous war photographer Robert Capa to the Soviet Union...
Ukraine as Major Aim and Battlefield of WW2, – Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder’s speech...
June 20th, 2017. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, I'm going to speak in English. I'm going to speak English, because this is a subject...
During his speech in Kyiv in 1972, President Nixon named Kyiv the “City of...
"As I think of a way to describe our feelings on this occasion, I noted that in history--and this city is so full of...
