History 77 Years Ago the Soviets Launched a Gargantuan and Wildly Successful Attack That Dwarfed the Normandy Landings Operation Bagration ground a German army group into dust as Allies were still bogged down in Normandy hedgerows Henrik Lunde 23 Jun 21 13298 5
History How Stalin’s Blunders and Communist Megalomania Combined to Leave the Soviet Union Exposed and Vulnerable to the Reich 27 million paid the price Marko Marjanović 23 Jun 21 1101 4
History The East German STASI and the Polish Communist Secret Service Distrusted and Detested Each Other Cute. German-Polish animosities even Communist internationalism could not fix Deutsche Welle 17 Apr 21 732 1
History The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis Almost No One Knows About Whether there would be a nuclear WW3 or not hinged on "dehydrated, harassed men trapped in a fragile metal box under the surface of the ocean" Sebastien Roblin 29 Mar 21 1386 2
History Neocon Hero Churchill Was Twice as Evil as Kissinger Only Dumber and Into “Aryan Stock” Talk The colonial secretary, Leo Amery, remarked: “On the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane … I didn’t see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s.” Priyamvada Gopal 27 Mar 21 2910 15
History How Russia Helped Deter an Anglo-French Invasion of the US Kept them from interfering in America's civil war Byron King 5 Sep 20 2387 3
History How Come It Was Japan That Was Defeated in WWII, but Korea That Was Partitioned by the Victors? Japan laid down arms quickly enough to prevent its own division but not that of its Korean colony Chung Byung-ho 26 Aug 20 1581 6
History Hiroshima Bombing Was the Culmination of the Anglo-American Race War on Japan Nazi Germany was never considered as a target, the bomb was always meant for the use in what to US and Britain was a race war Mick Hume 6 Aug 20 2623 8
History Americans in Vietnam — Tax Collectors for the Landlord Class “When asked if he would have destroyed the village had he been flying an F-105 supersonic fighter-bomber, Hildreth replied coolly, Yes, [because] you don’t see the people.’” Dave Martin 20 Jun 20 1407 9
History How the Soldier’s Revolt Ended the Vietnam War "The army reported 126 fraggings in 1969, 271 in 1970 and 333 in 1971, when they stopped keeping count" Joel Geier 13 Jun 20 5811 26
HistoryOur Benevolent Empire CIA’s Forgotten Coup Against ‘The Most Loyal Ally’ On November 11, 1975 Australia's PM was to inform Parliament about secret CIA presence in his country, by day’s end, he was out of the job John Pilger 8 Jun 20 1489 7
Covid Stone AgeHistory Bank of England Is Predicting the Biggest Contraction Since the 1709 ‘Great Frost,’ Here Is What Happened Then Seas froze over Juan Arreseigor 10 May 20 1949 11
History In WWII 3 out of 4 German KIA Were by Soviet Army 4.3 million Axis troops, including 3.55 million Germans fell in the east. And 7.5 million Soviets Marko Marjanović 9 May 20 2001 9
History VIDEO: The Empire’s Cuban Colony 1898-1959 and the US-Cuban War Thousands of Cubans were Spanish loyalists and fought against the US invasion. As quickly as 1905 Americans owned 20% of the land Carlton Meyer 27 Mar 20 597 1
History How Moscow Did Everything It Could to Spare America Its Vietnam Quagmire Soviets only got involved after the US had done so first, and after years of trying to hold the Vietnamese back, even at the cost of losing nearly all influence in Hanoi to China Marko Marjanović 18 Mar 20 1934 16
History The 130,000 Syrians Israel Expelled From the Golan Heights in 1967 Have Been Completely Erased From History The 130,00 Sunni Muslims were expelled, and only 7,000 Druze allowed to remain Irit Gal 19 Dec 19 2727 45
History Meet American Empire’s “Doctor Death”, the CIA’s Own Joseph Mengele "Sidney Gottlieb never became a household name, mostly because he never paid for his crimes" Kelley Vlahos 13 Dec 19 3797 9
History Napalm: The Signature Weapon of the American Empire The single biggest one-night massacre of civilians in history was carried out at the fraction of the cost of an atomic bombing Robert Barsocchini 10 Dec 19 5783 30
History The Soviet-Israeli War 1967-1973: The Soviet Struggle vs Israel in the War of Attrition The Soviets played a far more direct, long-lived and impactful role in the notionally Egyptian-Israeli struggle than is generally understood Michael Weaver 28 Nov 19 1514 1
History North Korea Fought Americans With Russian Biplanes From the 1920s And with considerable success as well Sebastien Roblin 23 Nov 19 1056 1
History Russia Had Just About Won WWI When Bolsheviks Snatched Defeat From the Jaws of Victory Russia had won WWI when it saved Paris on August 20th 1914, all that was left was to wait for Germany to accept its defeat Egor Kholmogorov 12 Nov 19 1041 4
History East Asian “Tigers” Democratized to Keep the US Invested in Their Fate After Washington Made Nice With Red China The switch to a multi-party system in South Korea and Taiwan is owed to US's opening to Beijing and the latter's embrace of the markets Anatoly Karlin 3 Nov 19 768 2
History Numerous Kurdish Tribesmen Were Enthusiastic Participants in the Armenian Genocide The Ottomans encouraged the Kurds to attack the Armenians as they were being forced marched into the desert to die Morgan E. Hunter 31 Oct 19 703 2
History The British-American Coup That Ended Australian Independence In 1975 PM Gough Whitlam dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price John Pilger 24 Sep 19 1459 3
History How the Assassination of JFK May Have Saved the Israeli Nuclear Program Kennedy had drawn a very firm line against nuclear proliferation threatening to withdraw support for Israel if did not comply with strict inspections Avner Cohen 10 Sep 19 1016 8
History South Korea Has Its Own Legacy of Vietnam War Atrocities It Refuses to Address South Korean forces carried out over 80 civilian massacres killing more than 9,000 James Griffiths 10 Sep 19 3734 4
History The Bolshevik War on Russia’s Best and Brightest Robbed It of 80 Percent of Its Cognitive Elites 80 percent of its people in high technologies of the time were killed, repressed or exiled to its enemies Anatoly Karlin 1 Aug 19 1392 4
History The Celebrated Battle of Iwo Jima Was Really a Victory for Japan (VIDEO) It was a mistake to ever invade the island, and a mistake to ever use it after Carlton Meyer 18 Jul 19 3389 3
History Iran Has Its Own 9/11. It Was Carried out by the Pentagon 300 civilians were killed by a US Navy cruiser firing from inside Iranian waters Tom O’Connor 5 Jul 19 1364 3
From the ArchiveHistory That Time Nixon Sent the US Navy to Confront the Soviets to Back Atrocities in Bangladesh and Suck Up to Mao Shining city on a hill Sebastien Roblin 3 Jul 19 699 3
