It was Lenin and the Bolsheviks who first gave Ukraine nationhood and a language. From Brezhnev to Khrushchev: Ukraine had a huge influence on the Soviet Union, something Kiev now prefers to downplay It’s not commonly understood in the West today that Ukrainians played a major role in the USSR In the very first years of the Soviet Union’s existence, Ukrainian Bolsheviks played an important role in building what became the world’s largest ever state. And it was people from…
He will be remembered as the father of ‘perestroika’ but also for presiding over the fall of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev © Yuriy Somov © Sputnik RT, 30 August, 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only president of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91, in Moscow. His death was reported on Tuesday night by the Central Clinical Hospital, which said in a statement that “Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and prolonged illness.”…
If you want to learn for yourself or introduce your friends to the “delights” of communism you need go no further than this long-forgotten French-Russian movie, made in 1992 which lays bare the realities of what the Soviets used to call “real communism”. See if you think the achievements of the Soviet Union warranted this. There are people to this day who think it was all worthwhile. I would give such people a wide berth. WARNING: the movie is very…
It seems Uncle (“Beijing”) Joe has form, I came across this little gem today from Whatdoesitmean.com This transcript then shows Security Council Members examining a highly-classified “Of Special Importance” document prepared by the Federal Security Service (FSB)—the very limited portions of which permitted to be openly discussed among various ministries is the very definition of a “Honey Trapping” counterintelligence spying operation—and sees this document revealing that a female FSB officer employed “bait-decoy” [Russian word: приманивать] tactics to entice a willing Ukrainian operative to purchase a classified ОВ [Russian word Особой важности] (equivalent to US classification “Top…
“WAS THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION A GOOD THING?” Stefan Molyneux vs Caleb Maupin I watched a good part of this debate between libertarian, Stefan Molyneux and RT journalist and leftist, Caleb Maupin. For those who need an introduction to Maupin who I had previously liked enough: Caleb Maupin is a member of the Workers World Party. Married to Meches Rosales-Maupin. Caleb Maupin is a radical journalist and political analyst who lives in New York City. Originally from Ohio, he studied political science at Baldwin-Wallace College. In addition to his…
