By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025
Meeting Protestants in Ukraine
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Tag Archives: Hitler-Stalin Pact
Did 27 Million Soviet Citizens Die Fighting the Nazis?
The Soviet Union Won the Second World War
The American Crackdown on Nazi Supporters During the Second World War: A “Brown Scare”?
A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine
The Soviet Role and (the Lack of) “Justice” At Nuremberg
British MP, Soviet Spy: Tom Driberg
“Socialism With A Human Face” Was Always Impossible
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022
It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading
General Franco’s Intentions in the Second World War
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2021
Writing recently about the first meeting between Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco at Hendaye on 23 October 1940, where the Führer tried to enlist Spain into the Axis, I concluded, drawing on Franco: The Man and His Nation by George Hills, a former BBC journalist and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society:
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