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  • Former Russian president calls Ukraine 'a disappearing country' and notes 'Trump's ratings have gone down'

    05/01/2025 1:39:42 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 47 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/1/2025 | Alex Nitzberg
    Russian Security Council Deputy Chair Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president, referred to Ukraine as "a disappearing country" in a post on Telegram. "But Trump has finally broken the Kiev regime into paying for American aid with minerals. Now they will have to pay for military supplies with the national wealth of a disappearing country," Medvedev said, according to a Google translation of part of his post. The Russian official also noted President Donald Trump's ratings have declined. "And the US Senate, led by Republicans, is preparing to introduce more ‘crushing sanctions’ against us. Let's see how the new administration...
  • 50 Year Old Venus Spacecraft Is About To Land On EARTH????? [9:33]

    04/29/2025 6:12:44 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 38 replies
    YouTube ^ | April 29, 2025 | Scott Manley
    In 1972 the Soviet union launched two spacecraft to explore the planet Venus, Venera 8 would become the second spacecraft to land on Venus, while the other spacecraft got stuck in Earth orbit and so was designated Kosmos 482. Now, 50 years later we expect the spacecraft to finally fall back to Earth, and unlike most spacecraft this one is designed to survive atmospheric entry. So it could land as a solid mass and maybe there's hardware that will survive, or more likely it will land in the ocean and sink.... 50 Year Old Venus Spacecraft Is About To Land...
  • How Russian Kids Are Taught World War II

    04/29/2025 1:45:37 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 100 replies
    Moscow Times ^ | 2017 | Ola Cichowlas
    From Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, Russian schoolchildren are preparing for the most important holiday of the year: Victory Day. Commemorated with a grand military parade on Moscow’s Red Square every May 9, the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany has long been used by authorities to rally support for the state. And it starts in school. In September 2016, three history textbooks were sanctioned by the Ministry of Education, all of which gloss over Stalin’s crimes and his initial alliance with Nazi Germany. “My main issue with the textbooks is that they do not reveal the whole truth,” says historian and...
  • Why did Stalin rehabilitate the Russian Orthodox Church?

    04/29/2025 1:12:57 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 9 replies
    Russia Beyond ^ | Oleg Yegorov
    Stalin, a cynical and clever leader, didn’t experience any epiphany but simply knew that taking it easy on the Orthodox Church was important for winning the war. First, many Soviet citizens remained secretly religious (which was not directly forbidden), so the “legalization” of Orthodoxy helped to keep the nation at war united – quite a crucial thing. Second, the Allies were pushing Stalin towards loosening his grip on the religious: the oppression of the faithful was bad publicity, internationally speaking. Third, in 1943 the Red Army was regaining the Soviet lands previously occupied by Germans. The occupants, trying to gain...
  • Hanoi John: Kerry and the Antiwar Movement’s Communist Connections

    10/11/2004 12:27:07 PM PDT · by Fedora · 86 replies · 15,851+ views
    Original FReeper research | 10/11/2004 | Fedora
    John Kerry’s Fellow TravellersA 5-part series exposing John Kerry’s Communist connections.Part 3: Hanoi John: Kerry and the Antiwar Movement’s Communist ConnectionsBy Fedora *NOTE: The term “fellow traveller” as used in this article series refers to someone who is not a member of the Communist Party (CP) but regularly engages in actions which advance the Party’s program. Some apparent fellow travellers may actually be “concealed party members”: members of the CP who conceal their membership. Which of these classifications is applicable to the Kerrys is a question this series leaves unresolved. This series does not argue for any direct evidence of...
  • Chilling declassified CIA file reveals aliens committed 'revenge massacre' after UFO was shot down

    04/03/2025 5:55:48 PM PDT · by RummyChick · 82 replies
    daily mail ^ | 4/3/2025 | CHRIS MELORE, ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
    A bone-chilling document declassified by the CIA has exposed an alleged massacre by aliens from a crashed UFO who turned an entire military unit into stone. According to the report, Soviet troops shot down a flying saucer hovering over the Soviet military unit in Siberia roughly 35 years ago, and what happened next was truly terrifying. In the document, summarizing a 250-page top secret file acquired by US intelligence agents, eyewitnesses said five aliens climbed out of their wrecked craft, combined themselves into one creature, exploded in a burst of intense energy, and turned 23 soldiers into solid rock. One...
  • Panetta Report 2: Leon Panetta Paid Tribute to Pro-Communist Peace Activist

    06/24/2011 10:52:15 PM PDT · by LucyT · 16 replies
    New Zeal Shining The Torch for Liberty ^ | June 16, 2011 | Trevor Loudon
    Leon Panetta While a Southern California based congressman in the 1970s and ’80s, CIA director and Obama Secretary of Defense nominee Leon Panetta, was close to a pro-communist, Santa Cruz based “peace activist” named Lucy Haessler. In spite (or perhaps because of) Haessler’s involvement with the Women’s International Democratic Federation, Panetta placed a tribute in the Congressional Record, April 11, 1984, to mark Haessler’s 80th birthday. Panetta noted that Lucy Haessler attended several conferences of the East German based organization in France, the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany. He did neglect to mention however that the W.I.D.F. was...
  • The Communist Roots of Palestinian Terror

    12/26/2007 8:32:31 PM PST · by GodGunsGuts · 12 replies · 464+ views
    FrontPageMag ^ | December 14, 2007 | David Meir-Levi
    Brainchild of the KGB As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived at a time when the KGB was creating “liberation front” organizations throughout the Third world. Others included the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created in 1964 with help from Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, created in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro. But the PLO was the KGB’s most enduring achievement. In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian...
  • Retreat! Ukrainian Brigades Appear To Be Evacuating Kursk.

    03/12/2025 5:09:39 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 28 replies
    Forbes ^ | March 11, 2025 | David Axe
    On Feb. 25, a flurry of accurate Russian drone strikes knocked out dozens of Ukrainian vehicles along the main road to Sudzha, the town that is—or was—the main base for the 10,000-strong Ukrainian force occupying a significant, but quickly shrinking, salient in Kursk Oblast in western Russia. That was “the day you started worrying about Kursk,” wrote independent analyst Andrew Perpetua. Two weeks later, it seems the bulk of the Ukrainian force—Ukrainian army’s heaviest brigades—has evacuated Kursk and repositioned on the Ukrainian side of the border. “My friends managed to leave Kursk, avoiding encirclement,” one Ukrainian source claimed Monday. “It’s...
  • TRASHCANISTAN> a tour through wreckage of the Soviet empire.

    05/09/2002 7:21:39 AM PDT · by dennisw · 5 replies · 1,583+ views
    NEW REPUBLIC MAG. ^ | 04.15.02 | Stephen Kotkin
      BOOKS CITED Central Asia's New States: Independence, Foreign Policy, and Regional Security by Martha Brill Olcott (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 202 pp., $19.95) Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory by Yo'av Karny (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 436 pp., $15) The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture by Charles King (Hoover Institution Press, 303 pp., $39.95) Ukraine: The Search for a National Identity edited by Sharon L. Wolchik and Volodymyr Zviglyanich (Rowman & Littlefield, 310 pp., $35) Return to the Western World: Cultural and Political Perspectives on the Estonian PostCommunist Transition edited...
  • USS Scorpion: Buried At Sea

    02/18/2025 4:52:16 AM PST · by Nervous Tick · 50 replies
    U. S. Naval Institute ^ | February 25 | Ed Offley
    The loss of the Skipjack-class nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) remains to many an unresolved mystery more than 56 years after it sank, with all hands, on 22 May 1968. But a closer look at the event suggests a different description: that it is one of the more closely guarded secrets of the Cold War.This is a focused review of the critical 18-day period immediately following the sinking, and eight key events that occurred during that span. It includes the sinking itself; the Scorpion’s failure to reach Norfolk as scheduled on Monday 27 May; the formal declaration of “Event...
  • Don't Cry for Russia - The world's unlikeliest "victim."

    08/28/2008 4:19:26 PM PDT · by neverdem · 3 replies · 100+ views
    Weekly Standard ^ | 09/01/2008 | Cathy Young
    As Russian tanks rumble through Georgia, and Western pundits talk of the "new Cold War," one trope keeps reappearing in their discourse. Russia's newly aggressive stance, we are told, is partly our fault: After the fall of Communism, the West went out of its way to humiliate and trample Russia instead of treating it as a partner--and now, an oil-powered Russia is striking back. "Russia's litany of indignities dates to the early 1990s when the Soviet empire collapsed," Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and former Barack Obama adviser, wrote in Time. "A bipolar universe gave...
  • 'Edward Snowden has blood on his hands': MI6 is forced to pull spies out of hostile countries

    06/14/2015 8:43:28 AM PDT · by Rockitz · 153 replies
    DailyMail.com ^ | 13 June 2015 | Jay Akbar For Mailonline
    MI6 has pulled its spies out of 'hostile countries' and America's intelligence agencies are on high alert after Russia and China cracked encrypted files leaked by fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden. The top-secret documents contain information that could lead to the identification of British and American spies, according to senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security services. A senior Home Office official accused Snowden - the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor responsible for the biggest confidential information leak in US history - of having 'blood on his hands' after they gained access to over one million...
  • Russian Spies Were Behind Black Nationalist Protest Groups-Indictment exposes ties between Moscow, black nationalist groups, and Antifa.

    08/05/2022 6:36:20 AM PDT · by SJackson · 80 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | Aug 4, 2022 | Daniel Greenfield
    After years of Russiagate conspiracy theories about how the Russians had somehow rigged the 2016 presidential election using Facebook ads, the Senate Intelligence report awkwardly revealed that the Russian operation had focused most of its attention on black nationalists. The Senate report revealed that "most of the videos" put out by the Russian IRA troll factory on YouTube "pertained to police brutality and the activist efforts of the Black Lives Matter organization" and found that "no single group of Americans was targeted... more than African-Americans" around "race and related issues". But that was an understatement. The Russians had created their...
  • Was the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Authored By a Cuban Agent?

    03/13/2021 3:13:43 AM PST · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | March 13, 2021 | Humberto Fontova
    “Lawmakers in the House passed a bill this week aimed at reforming policing in this country. It's called the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act…this bill would ban chokeholds and make it easier to pursue misconduct claims against officers, among other reforms. The lead author is Congresswoman Karen Bass from California,” reported NPR on March 5.Well, Rep. Karen Bass certainly qualifies as an expert on “police misconduct,” considering that for decades she’s been providing aid and comfort to a police state that jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s during the Great Terror and murdered more...
  • Azerbaijan Accuses Russia of Coverup in Kazakhstan Plane Crash

    12/30/2024 3:49:22 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 19 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 12/29/2024 | Thomas Grove
    Azeri president says apology isn’t enough, in confrontation that shows Moscow’s waning influence over former Soviet territories. Azerbaijan’s president accused Russia of trying to cover up its role in a plane crash that killed 38 people, delivering a harsh condemnation that signaled a reversal of the power dynamics that long saw Moscow hold sway over its former Soviet republics. President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that Azerbaijan had laid out for the Kremlin the necessary conditions to satisfy the country, demanding that Russia take responsibility for causing the crash, provide compensation for the country and victims’ families, and bring those guilty...
  • Stalin killed millions. A Stanford historian answers the question, was it genocide?

    12/29/2024 11:37:48 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 51 replies
    Stanford Report ^ | 9/23/10 | Stanford Report
    Historian Norman Naimark argues that today's narrow definition of genocide is Stalin's lasting legacy Murder on a national scale, yes – but is it genocide? “The word carries a powerful punch,” said Stanford history Professor Norman Naimark. “In international courts, it’s considered the crime of crimes.”
  • New regions may join Russia, Medvedev says

    12/18/2024 11:49:49 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 47 replies
    TASS ^ | December 14, 2024 | Sofya Sandurskaya
    Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev has not ruled out the emergence of new regions in Russia. "Actually, this experience (of Donbass and Novorossiya’s integration - TASS) may be useful in the future as well, if new but very close-by regions appear in our country soon. This is quite possible," he said at the 22nd United Russia party congress.
  • 'Tomorrow's Children' (1934)

    01/30/2011 7:51:41 PM PST · by bronxville · 73 replies · 1+ views
    Youtube ^ | 2010 | youtube
    'Tomorrow's Children' (1934) which was called 'The Unborn' in the UK This was a very controversial film in its day. It was made during the height of the eugenics movement and considered subversive at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSqUnqoHRFs Part I of 6
  • Kamala Grew Up Around Terrorists

    10/22/2024 6:44:43 PM PDT · by Lake Living · 14 replies
    frontpagemag.com ^ | 10/22/2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    The vice president then began singing the praises of Kaunda, a brutal socialist dictator allied with the Soviet Union, who had banned opposing political parties and ran as the only candidate for president until he was finally ousted, and praised Zambia’s “democracy”. Kaunda, whom Kamala fondly recalled meeting with JFK and MLK “to discuss peaceful forms of protest” had demanded nuclear weapons from LBJ. Hichilema, who had narrowly survived being arrested by a previous regime, had nothing to say about Kamala’s fond memories of Zambian democracy. Or the “peaceful forms of protest” carried on with nuclear missiles and terrorism. But...