In February 1956, Khrushchev stunned the Soviet leadership by denouncing Joseph Stalin’s cult of personality and mass terror, ...
Over a 40-year period, up to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons in present-day Kazakhstan. A new ...
Italian society, comfortably ensconced in the anti-fascist narrative, regarded the victory as its own. After Mussolini’s ...
Hitler’s 1 April 1939 speech at the launch of the battleship Tirpitz was a short but defiant wartime-tone address. He[...] ...