History & Persons

Yuri Chekalin10.09.2025

The famine of the early 1920s affected about 40 provinces of Soviet Russia. In the summer of 1921, the ARA (American Relief Administration) and other international public organizations responded to the appeal of the RSFSR government for assistance. The ARA staff (300 employees from America and about 10,000 from the local population) worked from September […]

Tony Rocchi09.09.2025

Every European revolution had a counter-revolution. Russia in 1917 was a huge exception to this historical pattern because there was no counter-revolution in the former Russian Empire between the February and October Revolutions of 1917. In fact, the conditions for a counter-revolution were completely absent. Russian revolutionaries prided themselves on their understanding of revolutions of […]

Yuri Chekalin02.09.2025

From the report: “Only six portraits of Stalin were published in Pravda in 1952, while 147 portraits of Khrushchev were published in the same newspaper in 1964.” Nikita Khrushchev is usually associated with the “thaw”, space flights and the mass migration of people from communal slums to relatively comfortable five-story Khrushchev buildings. It is believed […]

Klim Zhukov27.08.2025

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On the night of August 24, 1572, an event occurred that went down in history as the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, also known as the Night of Saint Bartholomew — the mass murder of Huguenots by Catholics in Paris. Let’s leave the tales of Huguenot propaganda to the writers and historians of the century before […]

Yuri Chekalin10.08.2025

A partisan movement began to form on Belarusian territory as early as the end of the summer of 1941 during World War II. More than one generation will remember these heros — from surviving photographs in family albums, from videos on tablets. Time passes, but the memory of our relatives — veterans of the war […]

Yuri Chekalin08.08.2025

Vasily Martekhov had an interesting fate. Vasily was born into a family of Russian immigrants at the Bukron mine in the American state of Ohio and became the fifth child. By birthright, the boy received US citizenship. His father, a miner, worked 12 hours a day, but received negligible amounts. The Martekhovs lived on a […]

Andrey Vedyaev30.07.2025

Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Stanislav Alekseevich Vaupshasov is one of those people whose lives were spent in campaigns and battles, among forests, hills and mountain passes, behind the front line and, in his own words, at dangerous crossroads. He was born on July 27, 1899 in the town of Gruzdziai, 19 km from […]

Andrey Vedyaev28.07.2025

On July 10, 1900, the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Maria Aleksandrovna Fortus was born into the family of a Kherson banker. She had to look death in the eye more than once, but still stayed alive — it seemed that Fortune herself was on her side. At the age of 16, Maria, carried away by […]

Alexander Palladin08.07.2025

During the Great Patriotic War, a total of 649 signals about enemy air raids and 3,087 reports of artillery shelling were transmitted by Leningrad Radio station, managed by Pyotr Aleksandrovich Palladin. On such occasions, the city radio used to be disconnected from the broadcast network. Instead, the metronome beating was put on the air. For […]

Klim Zhukov20.06.2025

The 1st rank cruiser was ordered from the William Crump and Sons shipyard in the USA. 129 meters, excellent armored deck, 12 guns 152 mm. Kane system, speed 23.2 knots. By the way, the speed made it absolutely inaccessible for any Japanese cruisers at sea — you can’t catch up (and you can’t run away […]

The ARA and Espionage

Why Was There No Counter-Revolution in Russia in 1917?

A Little About Khrushchev

Catholic’s Genocide: St. Bartholomew’s Night

As Father Alexander Was a Partisan Priest During WWII

The Only American Hero of the Soviet Union

Star of a Chekist

Maria from Kherson

As It Happened in Sieged Leningrad

The Real Story of Cruiser “Varyag”

The ARA and Espionage

Why Was There No Counter-Revolution in Russia in 1917?

What Was Seized from John Bolton During the Search

A Liberal Approach to Economic Sovereignty