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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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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....
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- 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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- May 8, 2017
- 2 min
"Victory day" was really "Occupation day" for most Europeans.
WW2 in Europe ended on May 8, 1945, when the Western allies and Soviet Russia accepted the unconditional surrender and capitulation of...
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