A fascinating and prescient 1994 memo from, E. Wayne Merry, chief political analyst at the US embassy in Moscow.
Declassified CIA report on Syria reveals US was already making plans to overthrow Assad government... in 1986!
102 years ago, December 30 1922 the First All-Union Congress of Soviets proclaimed the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
55 years ago today Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were murdered by the Chicago Police and the FBI. Hampton was just 21 years old at the time of his death.
Understanding the Timing of the Stalinist Terror | Why did the Stalinist Terror occur when it did? How institutional accommodation and immediate triggers produced these tumultuous events.
