Photos Of Holodomor — The Ukrainian Famine That Killed Millions
The Ukrainians call the famine the "Holodomor," a name that means "murder through starvation." In 1932 and 1933, millions died in the Ukraine. The country was hit by the Holodomor, a famine so terrible that, for the people caught in the middle of it, seeing an...
Ukraine’s Famine – How Stalin hid it from the world
In the years 1932 and 1933, a catastrophic famine swept across the Soviet Union. It began in the chaos of collectivization, when millions of peasants were forced off their land and made to join state farms. It was then exacerbated, in the autumn of 1932, when the...
Ukraine’s century-long struggle to keep its culture and independence
Ukrainians refer to Russian TV and its viewers as “Zombieland,” having long ago developed an immunity to the main talking points of Vladimir Putin’s mindless propaganda war. They know the absurdity of his claims that Kyiv is run by Nazis and drug addicts, NATO is...
The Polish State during the Second Republic (1919 – 1938)
The Polish society of the Second Republic has built its statehood under extremely difficult circumstances, both internally and externally. Despite this, during their 20 years of independence, the Polish people managed to adapt quickly to the ever-changing Modern...
Russia-Ukraine crisis: 9 milestone moments in history that explain today’s invasion
Russian forces have launched a major military attack on Ukraine, on the orders of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Tanks and troops have poured into Ukraine at points along its eastern, southern and northern borders, Ukraine says, and explosions have been heard...
Why Stalin Starved Ukraine?
History is a battleground, perennially fought over, endlessly contested. Nowhere does this aphorism hold true more than in Russia. A majority of Russians recently voted Joseph Stalin the “most outstanding person” in world history (followed, naturally, by current...
The peace treaty of Trianon
The Trianon Peace Treaty was signed on June 4th, 1920 by France, Great Britain, Italy, the United States, Japan, Romania, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Czechoslovakia and nine other states, on the one hand, and Hungary, on the other hand, being...
The Great Powers and Hungary at the Paris Peace Conference
The Allies considered Hungary ready to sign the peace at the end of 1919. Thus, they invited the representatives of its government to Paris for final discussions before the conclusion of the peace treaty. The French greeted the Hungarians coldly but cordially, and...
Romania, the Republic of Councils in Hungary and the Great Powers
On March 21st, 1919, the Hungarian Bolsheviks, led by Béla Kun, seized power in Hungary. This was a clear warning sign for Romania, which was the first country severely affected by the Bolshevik threat. Following the Bessarabian Country Council decision in early 1918...
February 1919: The discussion of the union of Transylvania with Romania at the Paris Peace Conference
On February 1st, 1919, the Romanian Prime Minister Ionel Brătianu appeared for the second time before the Supreme Council, this time to support the union of Transylvania with Romania. Ionel Brătianu began his plea with a long exposition of the stages that led him to...