By Jon Miltimore William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is considered by some to be the single greatest story ever written. Hamlet has it all: ghosts, sword fights, suicide, revenge, lust,…
Posts tagged as “the Soviet Union”
By John Wear The Soviet Union Conspires to Foment World War II and Infiltrate the U.S. Government Stalin adopted three Five Year Plans beginning in…
The Cheka, GPU, NKVD, MGB, and KGB. These are just a few of the names and acronyms for the same thing: the terrifying secret police…
Western music may have been changing the world in the 1950s, but if you happened to be in Russia you were out of luck. State…
On this day, Nov, 12 … 1927: Josef Stalin becomes the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist…
This interesting short documentary by AJ+, explores the cultural war between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In an effort…
As the collapse of the Soviet Union approached, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the victory of liberal democracy over planned socialism in his 1989 essay, “The End…