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Stanislav Petrov, the man who stopped a USSR - US nuclear war by doing nothing.
On September 26, 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear disaster, but few people today know about the man who saved it. In the...
Sep 25, 20173 min read
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The USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 and crushed the 'Prague Spring'.
In 1968, The Czechoslovakia goverment, headed by Alexander Dubcek, planned to implement reforms aimed at granting greater political...
Aug 20, 20172 min read
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How Napoleon destroyed the French revolution and France itself.
When Napoleon took over France and became emperor, he not only had effectively destroyed the French revolution, by turning it into...
Aug 16, 20173 min read
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How Józef Piłsudski and Poland saved Europe from a Soviet invasion in 1920.
On August 16, 1920, the Polish Army, led by Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, launched its counter attack against the Red Army, which resulted in...
Aug 15, 20174 min read
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How the bombing of Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender and ended WW2.
On August 6, 1945, at 8:16 am, Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb, over the city...
Aug 5, 20174 min read
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Putin defends Stalin, says the west is 'demonizing' him.
According to Putin, Stalin was just "a product of his era," and his merits outweigh his faults. "You can try to demonize him however...
Jun 18, 20171 min read
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The US defence spending are more than what the next eight most powerful countries in the world spend
President Trump wants to increase U.S. defense spending by $54 billion, that's a 10% increase to the US current defence budget which...
Mar 16, 20172 min read
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How Hitler helped the USSR win WW2
On June 22, 1941, Hitler ordered the Wehrmacht to invade Soviet Russia, and by doing so he changed the course of history of not only...
Mar 11, 20174 min read
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Russian airstrike kills three Turkish soldiers in Syria.
Russian air strikes killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 11 others during an operation against Islamic State in northern Syria on...
Feb 9, 20172 min read
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In 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev got a Nobel peace prize for massacring 200 people in Azerbaijan.
On January 20, 1990, Soviet troops stormed Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, by order of the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in an ultimately...
Jan 20, 20172 min read
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