Stalin-Hitler Pact
The sword of history and the power of truth: The case of Moldova’s and Russia’s V-day
April 27, 2010By Andrei Brezianu Analogies are a notorious trap. Forgive me for trying this one. Soon after the fall of Baghdad, in a U.S. plane carrying a team of experts trained for post-victory action in Iraq, most of them were thumbing through books dealing...
Seventy Years After the Hitler-Stalin Pact
August 27, 2009By Austin Bay "Communazi" became magazine shorthand for their collaboration, dark slang connecting the two totalitarian ideologies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany after they ratified the Hitler-Stalin Pact. That faux-peace agreement...
Moldova still suffers from Nazi-Soviet Pact's pernicious results
August 22, 2009By Prof. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Ph.D., Washington, DC Tomorrow, August 23rd, the world will give passing note and a brief mention to the fact that some seventy years ago one of the most cynical and unscrupulous treaties in all of history was signed. It...
23 August: The Night Stalin And Hitler Redrew The Map Of Europe
August 21, 2009By Robert Coalson A world slipping ever closer toward war awoke on the morning of August 24, 1939 to the shocking news that Adolf Hitler's Germany and Josef Stalin's Soviet Union had signed a nonaggression pact. Hitler was beaming when his foreign...
Molotov-Ribbentrop: Pact's Bitter Legacy Remains In Eastern Europe
August 21, 2009By Brian Whitmore Valentins Trojans remembers the marauding bands of Red Army soldiers going from farmhouse to farmhouse in his rural Latvia, looting watches, shoes, and clothing. Harijs Ruks recalls being interrogated by a sadistic Soviet officer...
When Russia's Intelligence Services Play At Politics
August 21, 2009By Aleksandr Golts Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has made its contribution to the president’s recently declared struggle against the falsification of history. According to Interfax, the SVR has issued a collection of documents...
Molotov-Ribbentrop: Different Wikipedias Tell Different Stories
August 21, 2009By Robert Coalson It is the Internet age’s reference of first resort -- the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Millions of people every day turn to it to get “just the facts” on everything from beekeeping to the battle of Austerlitz...
Russia Needs Honest Discussion of Molotov-Ribbentrop
August 20, 2009By Paul Goble Russia Needs Honest Discussion of Molotov-Ribbentrop Lest It Repeat Mistakes behind It, Moscow Analyst Says Unlike France or Britain where few people today are prepared to defend their countries’ 1938 Munich Accord with Hitler...
Moscow attempts to reinterpret the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
August 20, 2009By Pavel Felgenhauer Russian Manipulation of History: "the Art of Interpretation" To mark the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by Russia (USSR) and Nazi Germany on August 23, 1939, the Foreign Intelligence...