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- Mar 29, 2018
- 3 min
Nord Stream 2: How Germany Betrayed Europe for Russian gas.
Nord Stream two is not just a gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, in the eyes of many people in Europe and in the US, it is seen as...
4,543 views

- Feb 27, 2018
- 3 min
Russian critics of Putin usually end up dead in violent circumstances.
If you're Russia and you criticise Putin, there's a very good chance that you'd end up having someone pump you full of bullets sooner or...
1,660 views

- Oct 8, 2017
- 1 min
What if every secession movement succeeded In Europe and Russia?
The recent upheavals in Catalonia, Kurdish controlled areas around Turkey, Brexit, the Scottish referendum and Kosovo's independence have...
20,892 views

- Sep 25, 2017
- 3 min
Stanislav Petrov, the man who stopped a USSR - US nuclear war by doing nothing.
On September 26, 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear disaster, but few people today know about the man who saved it. In the...
4,796 views

- Aug 20, 2017
- 2 min
The USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 and crushed the 'Prague Spring'.
In 1968, The Czechoslovakia goverment, headed by Alexander Dubcek, planned to implement reforms aimed at granting greater political...
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- Aug 16, 2017
- 3 min
How Napoleon destroyed the French revolution and France itself.
When Napoleon took over France and became emperor, he not only had effectively destroyed the French revolution, by turning it into...
11,452 views

- Aug 15, 2017
- 4 min
How Józef Piłsudski and Poland saved Europe from a Soviet invasion in 1920.
On August 16, 1920, the Polish Army, led by Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, launched its counter attack against the Red Army, which resulted in...
9,028 views

- Aug 5, 2017
- 4 min
How the bombing of Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender and ended WW2.
On August 6, 1945, at 8:16 am, Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb, over the city...
2,302 views

- Jul 13, 2017
- 3 min
Russia's unknown Circassian genocide.
For over 100 years – between 1763 and 1864 – the Circassians fought Russian armies in the mountains of Caucasia, who coveted their lands....
3,060 views

- Jun 18, 2017
- 1 min
Putin defends Stalin, says the west is 'demonizing' him.
According to Putin, Stalin was just "a product of his era," and his merits outweigh his faults. "You can try to demonize him however...
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