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COMPARING PRESIDENTS

jeburciaga wrote 2 hours ago: English: President Barack Obama takes a practice putt with a golf club presented to him by golf lege … more →

Tags: Politics, Cold War, Eisenhower, Gen George Patton, obama, presidential anger, reagan, the Missile Gap

Inspired by a Russian Christian Dissident

Faith McDonnell wrote 2 hours ago: Sasha Ogorodnikov and me in Moscow 1991. (Photo credit: Faith McDonnell) By Faith J. H. McDonnell (@ … more →

Tags: News, Advocacy, Alexander Ogorodnikov, Christian Persecution, communism, dissident, Evin Prison, Faith J.H. McDonnell, Freedom

It's VKontakte, *not* Vikontakte. Twitter phishing, Soviet-style

Graham Cluley wrote 3 hours ago: VKontake is Russia’s equivalent to Facebook. VK – as it is commonly known – claims … more →

Tags: Featured, Phishing & Malware, twitter, Phishing, Vikontakte, vkontakte

Dancer By Colum McCann - Book Review

finger0truck wrote 4 hours ago: Thorough info on حرب التتار can be discovered at main website. 4. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 20 … more →

Tags: Ballet, Book Reviews, Dance, Homosexuality, The Sixties, حرب التتار

Brezhnev Pips Lenin as Russia's Favourite 20th Century Ruler

01varvara wrote 4 hours ago: THIS is what the people want… any questions? _____________________________ In an opinion poll … more →

Tags: Politics, Russian, social life and customs, Soviet period, Boris Yeltsin, Iosif Stalin, Josef Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

aurelius77 wrote 8 hours ago: President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation has drawn a line in the sand over Syria, the gove … more →

Tags: Axis Powers, Business & Economics, military, National Security & Terrorism, Politics, Syria, Damascus, Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Interview: Service interrupted

vostokcable wrote 9 hours ago: Robert Service is one of the foremost historians of Russia of his generation. In the first part of a … more →

Tags: Interview, Gorbachev, History, Lenin, Trotsky

Do you remember?

Merilin wrote 10 hours ago: Found those in our local recycling shop. I remember my grandma was visiting some relatives in Sweden … more →

Tags: Soviet-era, vintage, 1960 eyewear, eyeglasses, Mid-Century Modern, Sweden, Lifestyle, Style, Glasses

Where Stalin went on holiday

pdh42 wrote 12 hours ago:   Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili aka Joseph Stalin What would be like to sleep in a mass mur … more →

Tags: dacha, sochi, Black Sea, Russia, Gulag, Joseph Stalin, Stalin, Siberia, Billiards

The 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War

conelrad wrote 16 hours ago: The 1983 War Scare: “The Last Paroxysm” of the Cold War. … more →

Tags: military observations, Cold War, Able Archer 1983, Nuclear war, Kgb, NATO, nuclear attack

My Review of the “Purge” by Sofi Oksanen

thecategoricalhousewife wrote 17 hours ago: What did I just read? What is the point? These were my thoughts exactly right after I finished readi … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Ethan Frome, Human Trafficking, Purge, Sofi Oksanen

Britain's Nuclear Deterrent : Should it stay or should it go?2 comments

gunnerlukey wrote 21 hours ago: I’m going to start very early on here and disclose to the reader that i’m in favour of B … more →

Tags: Politics, military, World Affairs, England, North Korea, Royal Navy, scottish independence, Trident, united states

End Times, Video, Hal Lindsey Report

Marybeth Haydon wrote 21 hours ago: Hal Lindsey Report May 3 2013 Published on May 3, 2013 Prophetic News   … more →

Tags: videos, end times, Jesus, God, Terrorist, War, Russia, Religion, enemy

21 May 2013. Ura! It’s Polar Exploration Day!

01varvara wrote 23 hours ago: Ura! It’s Polar Exploration Day! Sergei Yolkin 2013 ****** RIA put this up on the English side of th … more →

Tags: Patriotic, Russian, Science, Soviet period, Arctic, Arctic and Antarctic Scientific Research Institute, arctic circle, cartoons, editorial cartoons

The power to go to war - Inside Story Americas - Al Jazeera English

WWW.OLDUVAI.CA wrote 1 day ago: The power to go to war – Inside Story Americas – Al Jazeera English. Related articles Be … more →

Tags: Geopolitical, Liberty, N. America, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera, Barack Obama, History, Twentieth Century, Totalitarianism

Art of the Day - 5/21/13 (Beat the Whites With the Red Wedge, El Lissitzky, 1920)

NJBiblio wrote 1 day ago: Daily Artwork — “Beat the Whites With the Red Wedge, 1920″ Use the images posted i … more →

Tags: daily art, Art, Critique, Lithograph, Propaganda, Suprematism

NHL veteran sees logic in Stalin's actions2 comments

Cotton Boll Conspiracy wrote 1 day ago: Ilya Bryzgalov is a better at hockey than history – fortunately for him. The Philadelphia Flyers goa … more →

Tags: Education, Government, History, media, Sports, the World, War, Gulag, History 2

Is America’s Economy Being Sovietized?2 comments

Land & Livestock Interntional, Inc. wrote 1 day ago: by Brandon Smith The foundation of the Soviet model of trade and investment was centralization. The … more →

Tags: Austrian Economic Theory, Economic & Market Analysis, Social & Economic Collapse, Social and Cultural Desruction, Totalitarianism, Adam Smith, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve system, planned economy

"The Cold War Era isn't over, it's just beginning..."

Liam 'Deathboy101' wrote 1 day ago: The Cold War Era is the first video game with the presence of realistic historical videos crafty imp … more →

Tags: Video Games, Cold War, Cold War era, History, space race, Twentieth Century, united states, video game


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