WWII
Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad
By Sean at 20 November, 2008, 1:22 am
From BBC in 2001.
Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving
By Sean at 23 July, 2008, 8:48 am
Two references to Russia being the next Nazi Germany in two days. The one from the left came yesterday. Fortunately, Daniel Silva is no intellectual heavy hitter and his Russia paranoia is likely to quietly dissipate into the ether.
Today’s however comes from someone who carries a big intellectual bat. Namely, the ever loving Richard Pipes. [...]
Red Army WWII Vet + Zionism = Marxist Likudnik
By Sean at 9 May, 2008, 10:09 am
Meet Don Kozlents. This octogenarian medal of valor holder is one of the millions of Red Army veterans of WWII. Like so many others, most of his family perished at the hands of the Nazis. He fought in the Battle of Kursk, where he was wounded when he crawled out of a [...]
Read More >>Hitler’s Vines
By Sean at 12 August, 2007, 3:44 pm
When I was in Russia last October I met a woman named Alexandra in the Komsomol archive. Last year, I wrote about how she was researching “Komsomol capitalism” for an article she was writing for Der Spiegel.
One of the things I didn’t mention was her claim that her father, who turns out to be [...]
Forgetting June 22, 1941
By Sean at 21 June, 2007, 4:49 pm
Sixty-Six years ago tomorrow, Adolf Hitler put Operation Barbarossa into action. The Nazis invaded the Soviet Union with initial overwhelming success. What Stalin knew, when he did, and what he did about it continues to be hotly debated. Like most topics in Soviet history, scholars are in a struggle to wrestle the Soviet [...]
Read More >>WWII Soviet Archives Declassified
By Sean at 14 June, 2007, 4:05 pm
Here is an important announcement for researchers. Kommersant reports:
Russia’s Defense Ministry has declassified archive documents of Red Army and Navy for 1941 to 1945, RIA Novosti reported referring to Colonel Sergey Ilienkov, who heads the Archive Service at Defense Ministry.
The secrecy labels were removed from documents stored in Defense Ministry’s Central Archive in Podolsk, [...]
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