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How Red Army tried to identify Hitler's body in his bunker by checking his SOCKS: Author reveals how Soviets bungled discovery of Fuhrers' corpse and sparked wild theories he escaped Berlin
2 days, 4 hours ago

How Red Army tried to identify Hitler's body in his bunker by checking his SOCKS: Author reveals how Soviets bungled discovery of Fuhrers' corpse and sparked wild theories he escaped Berlin

Daily Mail  

For 79 years, the details surrounding Adolf Hitler's death have been the subject of intense speculation. Not least among the dazzling array of anomalies and curiosities in the investigation conducted by Soviet forensic experts, which Laurier analyses in his new book Le Cadavre d’Hitler, is the revelation that one of the 13 bodies discovered in the bunker was ruled out …

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Kursk: Ukraine’s front inside Russia was the site of key Soviet World War II victory
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Kursk: Ukraine’s front inside Russia was the site of key Soviet World War II victory

CNN  

CNN — Ukraine’s military incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk region is covering some of the same territory on which the Soviet Union scored one of its most important victories over German invaders in World War II, one that some historians say turned the tide of the war in Europe almost a year before the D-Day invasion of Normandy. …

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The women get wild - ABC listen
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The women get wild - ABC listen

ABC  

Alex Barwick: How different does all of this look? Alex Barwick : Jenny was in a sea of women at the gates of Pine Gap. Alex Barwick : The camp and the marches at Pine Gap’s gates were colourful. Alex Barwick : Russell Goldflam, the curly-haired young man who’d joined the local peace group, wanted Pine Gap to be the …

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Politics, pressure and protest - ABC listen
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Politics, pressure and protest - ABC listen

ABC  

Alex Barwick: What did you all do at school today? Alex Barwick : That’s Brian Toohey, who was working out of a shoebox office for the man who would become Whitlam’s Defence Minister, Lance Barnard. Alex Barwick : Step one for the incoming PM; Whitlam would get a briefing from his Defence Department, and a key agenda item was the …

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A Murdered Ambassador, a Closed Embassy: The Tragic History of US Diplomacy in Afghanistan
8 months, 4 weeks ago

A Murdered Ambassador, a Closed Embassy: The Tragic History of US Diplomacy in Afghanistan

The Diplomat  

February 14 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. On Valentine’s Day in 1979, militants disguised as police officers abducted Dubs from his car and took him to the Kabul Hotel, an Afghan government property nestled within sight of the U.S. embassy. The closure of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on January 30, 1989, due to concerns about …

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Tintin turns 95, but remains forever young: 15 facts on Herge's timeless legacy
11 months, 1 week ago

Tintin turns 95, but remains forever young: 15 facts on Herge's timeless legacy

India Today  

On January 10, 1929, a young reporter named Tintin and his loyal dog, Snowy, embarked on a train journey from Brussels to Moscow, marking the beginning of Tintin's first grand adventure and the launch of Hergé's illustrious career. ‘The Adventures of Tintin’, a globally renowned comic series, unfolded from 1929 onwards, crafted by the Belgian comic strip maestro Hergé, also …

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The Yom Kippur war, 50 years on: critical lessons, and why it matters today
1 year, 2 months ago

The Yom Kippur war, 50 years on: critical lessons, and why it matters today

The Independent  

It was 50 years ago, on 6 October, and I was a nine-year-old boy running around in the New Haven synagogue in Connecticut where my father was the rabbi when I came upon a group of men huddled in a corner. open image in gallery Israel’s defence minister Moshe Dayan at the battlefront during the Yom Kippur war It took …

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Central Asia Comes Out of the Russian Shadow
1 year, 3 months ago

Central Asia Comes Out of the Russian Shadow

The Diplomat  

In Central Asia, speaking the Russian language used to be a sign of education, high culture, and a marker of the upper class. The region’s search for language, historic memory, cultural heritage and – above all – dignity outside of Soviet propaganda started two decades ago, but until recently lived mostly among Central Asian scholars and civil society. Except for …

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How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer
1 year, 4 months ago

How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer

Firstpost  

Archives made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse now establish beyond doubt that Oppenheimer was not a Soviet agent. In fact, intelligence reports about the Manhattan Project reveal that at key points, Stalin’s spy chiefs were frustrated that their operatives had not recruited him Oppenheimer, the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral …

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Beyond The Lines | Race for the bomb: Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the bomb factory of Xinjiang
1 year, 5 months ago

Beyond The Lines | Race for the bomb: Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the bomb factory of Xinjiang

Firstpost  

A cruel irony of advent of peace and the end of war was that the atom bomb became the war’s greatest discovery Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan’s $100m epic is expected to put the nuclear bomb question back on the table. The Film and the Manhattan Project The film is about Julius Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan project – a scientific …

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He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for the US in Ukraine
1 year, 5 months ago

He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for the US in Ukraine

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — After the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989, defeated by an insurgency equipped and guided by the U.S., a two-word cable arrived at CIA headquarters: “WE WON.” It was one of the last moments of the Cold War, credited with helping push the Soviet Union to collapse two years later. In the 2007 movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” …

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Book Review | Sketch of two charismatic PMs whose errors cost India dearly
1 year, 5 months ago

Book Review | Sketch of two charismatic PMs whose errors cost India dearly

Deccan Chronicle  

Centres of Power is a book by veteran diplomat Chinmaya R. Gharekhan. He constructs it around his two critical postings, first as joint secretary in Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s office — in two stints, but mainly from 1982. He continued to serve with her successor Rajiv Gandhi till December 1985, when he proceeded to New York as India’s permanent representative …

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Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union
1 year, 10 months ago

Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union

Salon  

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Since then, scholars have debated — and often maligned — Carter's legacy, especially his foreign policy efforts that revolved around human rights. A Soviet strategy The criticism of Carter's foreign policies seems particularly mistaken when it comes to the Cold War, a period defined by decades of hostility, mutual distrust and arms …

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Vladimir Putin compares Ukraine war to Battle of Stalingrad: A look back at the bloody fight in World War II
1 year, 10 months ago

Vladimir Putin compares Ukraine war to Battle of Stalingrad: A look back at the bloody fight in World War II

Firstpost  

Attempting to drum up support for the ongoing Ukraine war, Vladimir Putin drew comparisons to the Battle of Stalingrad. “A modern war with Russia will be completely different.” Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking Thursday at a ceremony marking the Red Army's victory against Nazi troops 80 yrs ago in Stalingrad, vowed a decisive response to any country threatening Russia and …

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A journalist ventures inside one of the world's most notorious terrorist groups
1 year, 10 months ago

A journalist ventures inside one of the world's most notorious terrorist groups

NPR  

A journalist ventures inside one of the world's most notorious terrorist groups Jere Van Dyk has spent years in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he got to know leaders of the Haqqani network, responsible for many suicide bombings and kidnappings. Our guest, journalist Jere Van Dyk, has spent decades reporting on Afghanistan and, in the early 1980s, lived with Haqqani network …

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How Pakistan’s Peshawar known to be the ‘city of flowers’ became the epicentre of violence
1 year, 10 months ago

How Pakistan’s Peshawar known to be the ‘city of flowers’ became the epicentre of violence

Firstpost  

Peshawar has borne the brunt of rising militancy in the region for the past four decades, fuelled by conflicts in neighbouring Afghanistan and great power geopolitical games Peshawar: Pakistan’s Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers,” surrounded by orchards of pear, quince and pomegranate trees. Eventually, the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, ruling until …

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Peshawar, the city of flowers, becomes epicenter of violence
1 year, 10 months ago

Peshawar, the city of flowers, becomes epicenter of violence

India Today  

Pakistan’s Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers,” surrounded by orchards of pear, quince and pomegranate trees. Meanwhile, in Peshawar and another Pakistani city, Quetta, the Afghan Taliban began to organize, with backing from the Pakistani government. Eventually, the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, ruling until they were ousted by the 2001 American-led invasion …

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Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago
1 year, 11 months ago

Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. WWII World War II inflicted colossal suffering on the Soviet Union, but cemented its superpower status and swelled citizens’ hearts with the conviction that theirs was a virtuous and indomitable nation. Stalin used wartime conferences to demand a Soviet …

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A Spy Among Friends and why we can’t get enough of Kim Philby and the Cambridge spies
2 years ago

A Spy Among Friends and why we can’t get enough of Kim Philby and the Cambridge spies

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Damian often refers to the relationship between Philby and …

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Today in History: October 4, Soviets launch Sputnik, spark the Space Age
2 years, 2 months ago

Today in History: October 4, Soviets launch Sputnik, spark the Space Age

Associated Press  

Today in history: On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit. Pope Paul VI delivers an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Oct. 4, 1965. This image made from television footage made in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Saturday Dec.1, 2001, shows John Walker Lindh at …

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Mendez makes it to space
2 years, 3 months ago

Mendez makes it to space

The Hindu  

Answer the following questions: 1) Who is the first Cuban cosmonaut? By being part of the Soyuz 38 mission in 1980, Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez achieved all these firsts, inscribing his name in space history forever. Interkosmos programme During the time Mendez was making his way up the Cuban Air Force, the Soviet Union had designed and formed the …

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Lessons from the past on the threat of a nuclear war
2 years, 4 months ago

Lessons from the past on the threat of a nuclear war

Hindustan Times  

As Russian tanks moved into Ukraine on February 24, President Vladimir Putin warned the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that any attempt to intervene could lead to “consequences they have never seen”. The Russia-Ukraine war is one symptom of a changing international system, with a public nonchalance toward nuclear weapons. They were aware that American missiles would become prime targets for …

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From the Cold War to Evan Gershkovich: a new twist in U.S.-Russia prisoner swaps
2 years, 4 months ago

From the Cold War to Evan Gershkovich: a new twist in U.S.-Russia prisoner swaps

NPR  

From the Cold War to Evan Gershkovich: a new twist in U.S.-Russia prisoner swaps Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published in August 2022. Enlarge this image toggle caption Evgenia Novozhenina/AFP via Getty Images Evgenia Novozhenina/AFP via Getty Images "What we're seeing play out now is really more hostage diplomacy," said Costa. "He's …

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Wily H.N. Bahuguna’s closeness to Soviets proved his undoing
2 years, 4 months ago

Wily H.N. Bahuguna’s closeness to Soviets proved his undoing

Deccan Chronicle  

Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna was a central character in Uttar Pradesh’s turbulent politics of the 1960-70s. Take the pole-vaulting which this wily politician did to remain relevant: Bahuguna quit the Congress along with Jagjiwan Ram in 1977 to form the Congress for Democracy which then merged into the Janata Party. While a hallmark of Bahuguna’s earlier career was his secular outlook …

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