There is a long historical continuity of European involvement in attempts to weaken, constrain, or destroy Russia, which can be understood across several overlapping historical […]
Tag: history
“Dark” Muslims – and brightly enlightened Europe?
The history we’ve been taught is propaganda: The Islamic world was the brain, Europe the arsonist. In 391 CE, Christian mobs destroyed the Great Library […]
Wu Zetian: The Woman Who Rewrote China’s Rules
I. Princess Pingyang’s Legacy Meets Wu Zhao: The Tang Dynasty’s Window of Female Power Wu Zetian was not content with the title of empress—she seized […]
Centuries of confrontations and wars between Kiev and Poland
Historically, Catholic Poland and Orthodox Ukraine have been at war with each other for centuries, rather than being friends. Already Mieszko I, the first historically […]
Travelogue: Ukrainian culture is celebrated in a Ukrainian restaurant in Moscow, of all places!
On a recent visit to Russia, I happened to come across a Ukrainian restaurant while walking through Moscow. Politicians and the mainstream media in the […]
Jews were respected and protected in Poland in contrast to other European countries. Today, Polish elites are targeting another group
I’m standing in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial, which is right next to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. I found […]
Distraction and Omertà have become the standard response of the elites in Germany and other Western “democratic” countries to cover up their debacles. The most recent striking example:
The revelation of the Bundeswehr’s plan to cut off supplies and transportation to two million Crimeans has outraged the German political class and the media, […]
The Swastika Is Not What Many People In The West Think It Is
In the 1920s, the Nazis culturally appropriated the age-old symbol of good fortune and turned it into an emblem of Aryan identity and German nationalism […]
The next German ruling party, led by a former BlackRock manager, has just declared war on Moscow and is stirring up anti-Russian sentiment, just as its predecessors did eighty years ago.
Germany invaded Russia in June 1941. This German propaganda poster from the summer of 1943 calls for people to “build weapons for the front.” Today’s […]
When the Chinese Prime Minister was Vietnamese: In the Meritocracy Invented by China, Everyone, Even Foreigners, Had Equal Opportunities. A Sensational New Study Looks at the Tang Dynasty, Which Founded China’s Revolutionary Model of Success that Endures to This Day.
“Chinese can’t innovate” (Harvard Business Review, 2014), they are dumb copycats, and “China is a threat to world peace”, they want to rule the world […]