Monatsarchive: Juli 2024

During the frightening years of the Yezhov terror, I spent seventeen months waiting in prison queues in Leningrad. One day, somehow, someone ‘picked me out’. On that occasion there was a woman standing behind me, her lips blue with cold, … Weiterlesen →

This outcome of the war between the Reds and the Whites determined the result of most of the many armed conflicts elsewhere in the former Russian Empire. In the Transcaucasus, the Georgians contended against the Armenians; the Armenians also fought … Weiterlesen →

CNN: “Here I am,” he added. “That’s what’s so special about America.” The president then walked out to the Rose Garden, where he addressed hundreds of White House staffers who walked over to the executive mansion to see Biden and … Weiterlesen →

After command module pilot Michael Collins returned to Earth after the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, he famously said that future flights “should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher, so we might get a much better idea … Weiterlesen →

Behold the man! It is our enemies who crave blood, not we. This goes without saying.

I told the bartender I was surprised to see the sticker and he asked why. „Because Lithuania is so much in favor of the war,“ I said. He said „No, Lithuania is against the war.“ „But it has been sending … Weiterlesen →

Craig Murray: In his address from the White House, Biden did not mistake Trump for Frank Sinatra or forget why he was there. It is thus touted as restoring his position. It was however a typical Biden performance, snide and … Weiterlesen →

The Latvian Riflemen received orders to arrest the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. Their preliminary duty was to liberate Dzierżyński from the hands of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries who had taken him hostage. The Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic was clearly not yet a properly-functioning … Weiterlesen →

After khachapuri and alus in town, on the footbridge over the tracks on the way back to my hotel, up the hill along the road to the left, past the independence memorial.