Category: history

  • No memories of an August month?

    The Russian Communist Party organized a special event in connection with the anniversary of the August coup against Gorbachev in 1991. The newspaper “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” drew attention to this event and asked some questions. The headline of the article is “THE COMMUNISTS HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN AUGUST 1991“, but could be “It is not easy to…

  • “Lot of folks see the celebrity side, but they don’t see the down side”

    That was Reverend Al Sharptons comment to The Gospel of Matthew chapter 20, verses 20 -22, as he spoke over Trump Times and America’s Black. Dr. Martin Luther King’s followers especially are on guard. This interesting message by Al Sharpton with a lot of black history in it, is to be found on this clip…

  • Putin’s time in power – a reverse lustration process?

     What is lustration? In the case of the Soviet Union and the communist countries in Eastern Europe, this meant that those who had held public offices in the repressive power apparatus during the communist era were deprived of their opportunities to continue to hold corresponding positions after the fall of communism. For example. Czech Republic: …

  • The Navalny drama has points of reference with the Soviet dissident drama

    Yesterday, Alexei Navalny was buried in Moscow. While he was still alive and in a labor camp, he wrote messages that were occasionally posted on his Instagram account. I happened to observe how, among many other things, he devoted his thoughts to some Soviet dissidents. A little over a year ago, he wrote about Anatoly…

  • Who said: “We will take Kyiv in three days” !?

    The phrase “возьмем Киев за три дня” ( = We’ll take Kyiv in three days !) has become something of a catchphrase on the Russian web. Also internationally. Not really catching. Who said that in the first place? It is said to have come from the Russian military (one rumor says that Putin uttered it…