Why did China go to war with the the USA? The Korean War

Recommendable!

Why did China go to war with the the USA? - YouTube

A 600 kilometers long Human Chain connecting the three Baltic States in 1989

When the Soviet Empire fell! A historic moment!

"... Nearly two million people joined hands across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, forming a human chain stretching some 600 kilometers and connecting three Baltic capitals: Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. Broadcast around the world, it became one of the defining images of the Singing Revolution and the Baltic struggle to restore independence. ..."

A Human Chain of Memory "How ordinary Estonians reclaimed their history, transforming it into peaceful resistance."

Chernobyl nuclear disaster Anniversary: Blame Communism, Not Nuclear Power

Headline of the day! That's right! Spot on!

Why was the West so foolish! How was so much alarmism and hysteria in the West possible? Who funded  and promoted it? Former Soviet Union? China?

Chernobyl Anniversary: Blame Communism, Not Nuclear Power "Forty years after the Chernobyl meltdown, too many people are still drawing the wrong conclusions."

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

Recommendable!

A Beauty Who Told Truth about Soviet Russia after the October Revolution - Emma Goldman

When an early socialist had an awakening!

"Yes, that Emma Goldman, the anarchist, the abettor of terrorists, the revolutionary friendly with communists and socialists. The one whose partner, Alexander Berkman, tried to assassinate a captain of industry, Henry Frick.

The Wilson administration deported Emma to Russia — in the sealed cabin of a ship, and then by sealed railcar. Still, she was euphoric at the prospect of seeing the “land of promise,” a land “freed from political and economic masters.”

What she found was the opposite. Lenin’s rule was shocking and “grotesque,” as she put it. She changed her mind about the Soviet Union. And she wrote a book, My Disillusionment in Russia. ..."

A Beauty Who Told Truth about Soviet Russia

Emma Goldman

The first hotline between the White House and the Kremlin was established in 1963

How often has this hotline prevented potentially dangerous situations to get out of hand?

It was installed after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Why was the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) military doctrine during and after the Cold War so successful?

The hotline between the White House and Beijing was only established in 2007.

Google wrote about the history of this hotline: "... 

First Bilateral Agreement:

The hotline was the first bilateral agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union aimed at addressing nuclear dangers. 

Evolution of the System

• 1963: The initial system was a full-time duplex wire telegraph circuit, with backup radiotelegraph circuits, connecting Washington and Moscow. 
• 1986: The original system was upgraded with the implementation of fax machines. 
• 2008: The system was further modernized to a secure computer link, exchanging messages via email. 
• Significance and Usage 

Crisis Management:

The hotline was used during several international conflicts, including the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, to prevent misunderstandings and clarify intentions.

..."

According to Wikipedia, the hotline was used during:

"1963: Assassination of President Kennedy

1967: Six Day War

1968: Apollo 8 mission progress

1971: War between India and Pakistan

1973: Yom Kippur War

1974: Turkish Invasion of Cyprus

1979: Soviet–Afghan War

1981: Threat of Soviet Invasion of Poland

1982: Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

1991: Gulf War

2001: The 9/11 attacks

2003: Aftermath of Iraq War"

"On this day in 1963, John F. Kennedy became the first U.S. president to have a direct text/teletype line, famously called the “hotline,” connecting him to the Kremlin in Moscow."

Saturday, August 30, 2025 - Join The Flyover

Our lives depended on it. ITT Intelex Teletype L015, as displayed in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

The terrible Legacy of Nuclear Testing by the former Soviet Union in Kazakhstan

Communist regimes don't treat humans very kindly!

"From 1949 to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan, exposing 1.5 million people to radioactive fallout.

Generations of people in the region now suffer high rates of cancer, fertility problems, heart disease, and genetic birth defects.

Researchers have found the radiation nearly doubled inherited gene mutation risks.

Ongoing Struggle: Despite persistent health issues, neither Russia or Kazakhstan has offered long-term, large-scale aid. ..."

Global Health NOW: Argentina’s Health System Overhaul; The Legacy of Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan; and Novel Mental Health Care in an L.A. Jail

Atomic bombs destroyed their lives – now they want Russia to pay "Amid calls to restart nuclear testing, families are still suffering from mutations passed down through the generations"

The Atomic Lake in eastern Kazakhstan was formed by a nuclear bomb 10 times as powerful as the one that destroyed Hiroshima

Just one example of many. Abilmansur Erzhanov, 7, was born unable to hear as a result of his grandmother and mother being exposed to radiation

Image of the day

80 years celebration of the defeat of Hitler's Germany!

What is wrong with the picture below? There should be no Russian language on it. Stalin was like Hitler, he also invaded Poland and Finland, Holodomor and so on! From Stalin to Putin the Terrible!

This is the Brandenburg Tor in Berlin, Germany

The Rise and Reign of STALIN: Blood, Power, and Propaganda

Very recommendable! Putin the Terrible is a successor of Stalin!

The KGB Spy Who Outsmarted the KGB - Oleg Gordievsky (1938-2025)

Very recommendable! What a spy story!

The Soviet Microfilm Project at Hoover Institution. Really!

What a joke in the year 2025! This seems to be a very valuable, probably extraordinary repository of historical documents about the history of the former Soviet Union and the communist party.

However, no mention whether these microfilms [???] have been transferred to modern storage mediums. So if someone wants to look up Putin the Terrible, you have to sit at a microfilm reader?

The Soviet Microfilm Project | Hoover Institution The Soviet Microfilm Project "Charles Palm recalls the ambitious effort he spearheaded to microfilm the newly opened Soviet archives after the collapse of the USSR in 1991."

Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State Microfilm Collection "Documents relating to political conditions in the Soviet Union from 1903 to 1992 are available on 11,676 microfilm reels at the Hoover Archives. Each reel contains approximately 850 pages of documents."

The Hall of Evil: Joseph Stalin by PragerU

Recommendable! Over the last roughly 100 years Russia was ruled by three monsters, i.e. Lenin, Stalin, and Putin the Terrible!

Paul Kengor omitted two critical historical facts about Stalin:

1) Stalin and Hitler conquered and divided Poland simultaneously (Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of August 1939)

2) Stalin also attacked Finland in 1939

Solzhenitsyn's Russian Nationalism vs. the West by Ayn Rand

Recommendable!

Holodomor - Ukrainians Between Two World Wars

Recommendable! If you want to understand why Ukrainians don't like Russians and why Putin the Terrible is a reminder of Stalin!

What did Lenin Think of Stalin?

Very recommendable!

So wurde Walter Ulbricht der mächtigste Mann der DDR

Sehr empfehlenswert!

Why did Nikita Khrushchev Give Crimea to Ukraine?

Very recommendable! However, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for territorial integrity, which Putin the Terrible then violated by his invasion.

Hamas's antisemitism influence is even comparable to the Nazis

Recommendable!

"... The foundations of Hamas's successful antisemitic influence

The foundations of Hamas’s success lie in the Soviet Union. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, when Israel aligned with the West rather than the USSR, the Soviet leadership decided to undermine American and British influence in the Middle East by fomenting a war of national liberation against Israel. Moscow invented a Palestinian national identity in order to turn religious malice against the Jews of Israel into a struggle over land, a cause it correctly understood would gain much greater traction and support in the West than a religious war. ...

EVER SINCE Israel attempted a two-state solution in 2005, unilaterally pulling every soldier out of Gaza and uprooting every last Jew from the territory, Hamas has used all of its energies to intensify and expand this global anti-Zionist paradigm. ...

Hamas’s aim is to maximize Gazan civilian deaths, especially of women and children, in order to provoke accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity; to delegitimize Israel; and to vilify and isolate it across the international community. This plan comes together every time, and Israel’s necessary defensive action, rigorously adhering to the laws of armed conflict, is always accompanied by and followed up with outright condemnation in the UN Human Rights Council, by human rights groups and by hostile governments. ...

POLITICIANS TOO are susceptible to anti-Zionist hate campaigns, especially when large numbers of Muslims are among their voters. Even those political leaders who support Israel will often seek to appease their anti-Israel voters. For example, in this war, the likes of US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have repeatedly called on Israel to observe the laws of war and to avoid killing civilians.

They say this time and again, despite knowing full well that Israel already does exactly that. This is especially dangerous because their words imply that Israel is, in fact, carrying out war crimes, and their “confirmation” serves to incite even greater Jew-hatred. ..."

Hamas's antisemitism influence is even bigger than the Nazis' - opinion - The Jerusalem Post The global scope and scale of Hamas’s antisemitic influence dramatically exceeds even the Nazis from whom it takes much of its own inspiration.

The man who saved the WORLD from nuclear armageddon - Stanislav Petrov

Very recommendable! Sometimes it comes down to one individual to prevent a major disaster etc.!

Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who for several decades spied for Soviet Union/Russia , died at 79 in prison

Why is the FBI unable or unwilling to provide bribery and other charges against the former Vice President and now the senile and demented 46th President and his clan? Had the FBI done its job, the name of the 46th President would most likely not be Joseph Biden!
A colossal failure!

The biggest mistake this spy made was too stay too long on the payroll of the FBI until he was discovered in 2001!

"Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Moscow in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history, died in prison Monday. ...
Hanssen had divulged a wealth of information about American intelligence-gathering, including extensive detail about how U.S. officials had tapped into Russian spy operations, since at least 1985. ...
He was believed to have been partly responsible for the deaths of at least three Soviet officers who were working for U.S. intelligence and executed after being exposed. ..."

Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who was convicted of spying for Russia, dies in prison (This NPR article fails to mention what role or job title or department Hanssen worked for)