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May 20, 20162 min read
No, Hitler was not elected into power.
Critics of democracy often claim that Hitler was democratically elected to power, which is utter bullshit if you know your history. The...
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May 16, 20162 min read
Sykes–Picot: How UK and France created, and ruined , the modern Middle East.
On may 19, 1916, France and the UK conclude the Sykes-Picot agreement, which in effect partitioned the former provinces of the Ottoman...
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May 13, 20161 min read
It takes a lot of capitalism to maintain a Communist symbol.
Vladimir Lenin’s body is nearly 146 years old, but it doesn’t look a day over 53. Russian scientists have kept the Soviet leader, whose...
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May 13, 20163 min read
The unbelievable story of Witold Pilecki, who volunteered to go to Auschwitz.
In 1940, in occupied Poland, Witold Pilecki, a 39-year old veteran of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920, who fought as an officer in the...
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May 12, 20162 min read
Israel's independence is the Palestinian's catastrophe.
What is called "independenc day" in Israel, is lamented as the "Nakba" day (the catastrophe) among the Palestinians who were ethnically...
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May 11, 20161 min read
The first head of state to be voted into office was not George Washington, but Henryk Walezy in 1573
On this day in 1573, Henryk Walezy (Henry of Anjou) is sworn into office after he became the first elected king of the Polish- Lithuanian...
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May 3, 20163 min read
How Europe destroyed the first European constitutional democracy, the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth
On 3rd May 1791, the first written Constitution to be adopted in Europe by a major European country, was passed in Warsaw by the Polish -...
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May 2, 20164 min read
King Leopold and Belgium's forgotten holocaust in Congo.
Under the reign of terror instituted by King Leopold II of Belgium (who ran the Congo Free State as his personal fief from 1885 to 1908),...
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Apr 29, 20163 min read
Emperor Hirohito, history's greatest unacknowledged war criminal.
The Japanese Emperor Hirohito was one of the greatest mass murderers in history, yet to this day no one really seems to mind that. For...
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