Invite Trump but not Putin? WWII anniversary without Russia is just rewriting history
Having US and former Axis leaders attend the 80th anniversary of WWII, but not inviting Russia, shows the event in Poland has nothing to do with paying respects to history, and everything to do with present-day politics....
Latvian Waffen-SS legion ‘pride of our state and nation,’ Defense Minister says, as he honors WW2 veterans who sided with Hitler
© The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia / okupacijasmuzejs.lv In a disturbing example of revising the role of Nazi collaborators in World War II, a Latvian minister said veterans, his compatriots who fought in th...
29 Apr 2020
‘Never forget what your enemy looks like’: MPs allow use of swastika to condemn Nazi ideology
Nazi standards tossed to the ground during the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow on June 24, 1945. © Sputnik The swastika and other symbols of the Third Reich can be used, but only if it’s done to con...
29 Apr 2020
It’s inhumane of Poland to obscure the memory of the ocean of blood the Soviet Army shed to defeat Hitler
Commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Warsaw by the Soviet army from Nazi occupation in WWII were supposed to bring people together. Instead, they are driving Poland and Russia apart in a new war of...
A ‘Deathtrap’ or ‘Ahead of its time’? US mag National Interest attacks Soviet WW2-era KV heavy tank
A hit piece in The National Interest accuses the WW2-era KV series Soviet heavy tanks of failing to stop the 1941 Nazi invasion. But apart from factual flaws, the article fails to take a broader look at the tank’s...
Legendary Soviet spy who saved Krakow from Nazi-made flood dies days after turning 103
Over his long life, Aleksey Botyan was many things. He was born in 1917, just as the Russian Empire was collapsing and shattering into pieces. His family lived in the territory that became part of Poland in the 1920s. Fi...