History & Persons

Klim Zhukov14.10.2024

On October 9, 1967, Comrade Che, aka Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, a glorious son of the Argentine people, commander of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and Cuban statesman, was executed in a school in the Bolivian village of La Higuera. Apparently, the reason for the decision to execute Che Guevara was the reluctance of […]

Alexander Palladin13.10.2024

The tension in our military-political confrontation with the West, unprecedented since the mid-1980s, gives many a reason to recall the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this regard, it is appropriate to recall the Hollywood documentary drama “Thirteen Days” released in 2000. The film was based on the book of the same name by the brother of […]

Alexander Palladin12.10.2024

The unprecedented terrorist attack carried out by Israeli intelligence services in Lebanon, where hundreds of people suffered from the simultaneous detonation of booby-trapped gadgets, gave reason to recall the memoirs of former Mossad employee Victor Ostrovsky, “By Way of Deception”, published overseas in 1990. Becoming the scapegoat after the failed Mossad operation, the great-grandson of […]

Alexander Palladin10.10.2024

The French army has begun to prepare for a new direct clash with our country, claims the American publication Politico, having studied the documents of the French Ministry of Defense. According to the head of the land command of the French army in Europe, General Bertrand Toujouse, “earlier we only played at war” with Russia, […]

Egor Sennikov09.10.2024

“Dear comrade Zemlyachka… we ask you to let our mother go.“ (F.R5446. Op.56. D.5. L. 53,53ob.) A heart-wrenching letter written in 1942 to Rosalia Zemlyachka (then deputy chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR) from a teenage girl, Nadezhda Sakharova, who lived in the regional Moscow on the Bekasovo state farm near […]

Alexander Palladin08.10.2024

The postponement of the World Friendship Games, scheduled to be held in Yekaterinburg in September, to next year gave me a reason to remember how 38 years ago in Washington I interviewed Ted Turner, the founder of the 24-hour news channel CNN, in connection with the upcoming Goodwill Games, which he started and sponsored as […]

Alexander Palladin06.10.2024

In 1974, Nikolai Ivanovich Bragin, who had been a member of the editorial board of this newspaper in Moscow, flew to Ottawa to work as a special correspondent for Pravda. From the very first days of his stay in Canada, Nikolai Ivanovich immediately showed everyone what a big shot he was: when communicating with his […]

Tony Rocchi05.10.2024

One of the greatest unknowns about the history of the Russian Revolution and Civil War of 1917-1922 is the extent of political terrorism during these years. There were many terrorist attacks and politically motivated killings during the Revolution of 1917-1922. Note that historians now tend to combine the February and October Revolutions of 1917 and […]

Yuri Chekalin01.10.2024

The Soviet war hero used to drink Coca-Cola disguised as vodka. The Cold War is better remembered for greater disputes, but one of the more intriguing developments to come out of the American-Soviet ideological divide was a special batch of clear Coca-Cola. This is the story of a sweet tooth amid a prohibition on Western […]

Georgy Litvinchuk27.09.2024

On September 24, 1911, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was born. Younger people probably won’t even remember who he was. He headed the USSR for only 11 months and was remembered only for reinstating the 94-year-old Molotov, who had fallen into disgrace under Khrushchev, into the party. Meanwhile, if he had lived at least another six months, […]

“I am Thinking About the Immortality of the Revolution”

The Cuban Missile Crisis Was Resolved by … Swearing

By Way of Deception

Macron is Setting off on a Campaign… Again to Russia

“… Let Our Mother Go”

A Sickle to the Worldview of an American TV Mogul

A Black Sheep in a Black Buick

Terrorism in the Revolution of 1917-1922: an even greater unknown

Clear Coca-Cola for Marshal Zhukov

Controversial Chernenko

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old