Chronicles of Ukraine’s Fight and Resistance
Here is a story tied to George H. W. Bush that everyone has heard of, yet in the former sovok space it barely gets attention. For us Ukrainians, however, it carries Desert Storm lessons — so it’s worth running quickly through the events of thirty years ago. I’m talking about the First Gulf War, known […]
After France’s capitulation, Britain stood alone. The Sovok* intensively prepared for major war but was still engaged in non-military seizure of western territories. The US, though providing aid to Britain, wasn’t even planning to actively join the fight at that moment. Since Britain located on islands, its main weapon became the fleet, and the main […]
The simultaneous collapse of the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires gave nations a chance to free themselves from artificial state formations glued together from mismatched fragments. It was an inevitable process — the weakening of an imperial center always leads to the disintegration of its periphery. This pattern has repeated throughout history — and it […]
We often shift the timeline at least ten years back and always remind about 2003, the Tuzla island 2003 conflict in the Kerch Strait. Russia lay in a semi-collapsed state, and the West provided humanitarian aid to the almost immobilized huge country. Back then there were no Maidans, no ATO, and nothing of what today’s […]
A day is approaching that in the Sovok¹ and Russia is called “Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45.” In this pompous title, only two words are not outright lies: “day” and “war.” Everything else is part of the Patriotic War Lies that have been spread for decades, a blatant and shameless distortion […]