Part I, Part II On July 28, 1942 Stalin issued his famous order no. 227: “Not one step back!” And this was not because he had forgotten to do it in 1941, but because the state of affairs on the front lines of the war had become much more dangerous […]
The Episodes
Episode 18. How Britain assisted the Soviet Union’s fight against Hitler (II)
But out of the 34 merchant ships and tankers in the PQ 17 convoy, which set sail out of Hvalfjörður fjord on June 27, 1942, only 13 made it to the shores of the Soviet Union.
Episode 18. How Britain assisted the Soviet Union’s fight against Hitler (I)
In previous installments of the Episodes, we have frequently described the obvious examples of British diplomatic maneuvering in regard to Hitler immediately prior to and at the beginning of World War II (please read, for example, the chapters Poland Betrayed and Who Signed the Death Sentence for France in 1940?) […]
The Republic of Texas and Other “Terrorist Organizations” (II)
Proclamation of a new state in Texas in 1836 was in no way different than what happened in Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014.
The Republic of Texas and Other “Terrorist Organizations” (I)
Nikolay Starikov explains why the actions taken by the people of the Donbass in 2014 look more justified than the insurrection of the American colonists in late XVIII century.
Ukraine’s misunderstanding of Lenin helps explain America’s fight with re-invented historical statues
Lenin is a convenient target for a Kiev regime whose ideology is neo-fascist, but the fact that Lenin was in many ways the inventor of modern Ukraine, is an inconvenient fact that is being totally ignored.
1918 “Sykes-Picot” & 2017 “Rojava” – Flogging the Same Dead Horse Twice
Throughout the “civil war” (all of the terrorists are supported by external States) in Syria, which began – according to the official narrative – in 2011, the parties involved either on the side of current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or on the side of the “Syrian revolution” (jihadists but with the […]
The Russian Hawaii
The first European explorers reached these heavenly volcanic islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at the end of the 18th century. One, the famous British voyager James Cook, also found his final resting place there. As a direct consequence of this “contact with civilization,” a local chieftain named […]
Russian Revolutions and Civil War
Julien Paolantony explains the dynamics of the revolutionary era in Russia: how did diverse factors combine to enable the Bolsheviks to take down the tsarist regime.
Russia: Road to the Revolutions
We continue publishing the series of Julien Paolantoni’s essays on the history of the Russian Empire. The first two related parts were The Roots of Russia : From the Early East Slavs to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and A Superpower Rises: Foundation of the Russian Empire. Introduction Part 2 of […]
A Superpower Rises: From the Implementation of Tsardom to the Congress of Vienna
What follows is the continuation of series of essays “Brief History of Russia”, produced by the French political and financial analyst Julien Paolantoni. The first set was published by ORIENTAL REVIEW in January 2015 and covered the period from the IXth to the middle of XVIth century. Introduction Part 1 […]
Adolf Hitler as Ukraine’s national idea
The marriage of convenience between German Nazis and Ukrainian nationalists was contracted in September 1939, when the leader of the OUN Andriy Melnik visited Berlin.
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