1/04/2015
Vladimir Putin (left) decorates a second world war veteran with a jubilee medal at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Friday In the autumn of 1941, when German tanks sped towards Moscow, Soviet radio would daily blast out a song that encapsulated the country’s titanic struggle against its Nazi invaders. “Arise, great country, arise […]
1/04/2015
German Chancellor Opts for Smaller Ceremony at Kremlin Instead Amid Ukraine Conflict BERLIN–German Chancellor Angela Merkel will skip a Moscow military parade in May commemorating the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany but hold a separate ceremony at the Kremlin the next day, a balancing act showing the complexities of dealing with Russia’s […]
1/04/2015
On March 19, the Los Angeles Times published the article called Kiev, not Moscow, Should be the Choice for Marking V-E Day written by Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, John Herbst, the director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council and Bill Taylor, the acting executive Vice President […]
1/04/2015
Sergey Guneev Against the background of efforts undertaken by a number of Western countries to boycott celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the World War II in Moscow, willingness of leaders from Germany, China, India, South Africa, Mongolia, Vietnam and Cuba to take part in the celebrations is particularly significant. Speaking at the […]
1/04/2015
Some things should be above daily politics. The last major anniversary of victory over Nazism with living veterans in Moscow is one of them There is something so bizarre, so inhumane about Western countries boycotting the parade for the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Germany in World War II that I just had […]
1/04/2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Victory Day celebrations organizing committee in the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday. (Sergei Ilnitsky / Associated Press) To the editor: When three former U.S. ambassadors agree on a foreign policy move, we should listen, no matter their political persuasions. (“Kiev, not Moscow, should be the choice […]
1/04/2015
Chancellor Merkel will not to take part in Moscow’s parade to mark the end of World War II on May 9, but she’ll be there a day later. No doubt a difficult choice, but it was the right one, says DW’s Christian F. Trippe. In the end, it was merely the timing of the decision […]
1/04/2015
It’s right to honor WW II sacrifices on the eastern front, but not in Moscow in 2015 Kiev is appropriate site for V-E Day ceremony; Ukraine lost an estimated 25% of its population German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron have rightly turned down Vladimir Putin’s invitation to go to Moscow on […]
1/04/2015
The following excerpts thoroughly document how capitalists really acted during the Second World War. Behind the patriotic propaganda that encouraged the working class to slaughter each other in the interests of competing national interests, international capital quietly kept the commodity circuits flowing and profits growing across all borders. Trading with the Enemy – war means […]
1/04/2015
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the concept of empire entered Soviet and post-Soviet studies, as scholars attempted to place the end of the Soviet multinational state in an appropriate comparative framework. A variety of excellent books was the result, including edited volumes by Bruce Parrott and Karen Dawisha, Barnett Rubin and Jack Snyder, Richard Rudolph and […]
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