March 2022

“Things have been so scary lately with Russia,” says tikTok User @MojoX with dead seriousness in a post from early March, "that I went out and got myself a Gen X bomb shelter."Cut to a photograph of a school desk - an image that conjures…

IT IS understandable that publishing a reader's letter is a privilege, not a right and you certainly have an obligation to avoid fake news, when possible. Nevertheless, I was very concerned when a recent letter from me was…

AP Photo/Alex Brandon As diplomacy is seen around the world as the only way to stop…

A silk map of western Ukraine carried by British pilots or other NATO pilots during the Cold War is displayed in the library of the Kelowna campus of Okanagan College. The map, which is part of the private collection of geography…

Photo, Moscow Military Museum Long ago, in 1985, in the dying days of Soviet gerontocrat Chernenko, just before Gorbachev came to power, I traveled to Moscow with a small BBC crew to do radio broadcasts marking the 40th anniversary of…

Published on: 25/03/2022 – 13:25Amended: 25/03/2022 – 13:27 During World War II, one of the worst massacres of the conflict took place in Eastern Europe, in Romania's second city, Iași. A tenth of the city's population – more than…

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A new book claiming to have solved a mystery surrounding Anne Frank has been pulled by its Dutch publisher.The decision to recall the book came after its conclusions about who betrayed Frank and his family during World War II were…

From Ukraine to World War III via Alaska and California How should we sin boldly! President Joe Biden must deal with both tulips and landmines to avoid spreading the war in Ukraine to NATO and possibly the world. I pray that the angels…

Some cases are open and closed while others take a rather unusual turn. A murder in a Turkish bath initially looked like a simple straightforward case to Gently with clear indications of…

During World War I, Holabird was the site of an Army Quartermaster Depot that shipped supplies to American forces. These included trucks. Soldiers had to be taught to drive and repair these vehicles, so Holabird also had a school. It…

As a child of the 1960s, I grew up with the grim realities of Europe divided by the Iron Curtain. To those of us in the West, the Eastern bloc seemed like an alternate Orwellian universe from afar: grey, depressing and repressive.…

For Belarusians, Russians and Ukrainians, few historical events weigh as heavily as the Second World War. One would be hard-pressed to find an Eastern Slav who doesn't have a relative who fought in the war, died in a war, or lost…

At the end of World War II, the United Nations was formed, but the inherent dominance of the victors in the war, wielded by permanent membership in the Security Council, and the power of veto remain to this day. The rest of the world…

Russia and NATO have not gotten along since Ukraine applied for NATO membership. This led to an escalation of tensions between the two countries and on February 24, Russian troops began to attack Ukraine and worried the world about a…

A historic former RAF base found in Berkshire is known to have housed nuclear missiles during its wartime operation. In the civil parishes of Greenham and Thatcham, and south-east Newbury, Greenham Common has been used for multiple!-->…

The Delta class was the backbone of Russia's submarine-launched ballistic missile forces: Between 1972 and 1992, the Soviet Union built forty-three submarines to a series of designs that NATO has collectively described as the Delta class.…

The story continues under the adAnd it's a familiar fight, especially for a generation that grew up on a constant diet of anti-Russian agitprop: in the headlines (the McCarthy hearings), in schools where children hid under laminate desks in…

A 'remarkable script' was released by the National Archives at Kew, London in 2013. Passing the '30-year rule' date, the document was released, revealing a speech written by officials as part of a a Whitehall exercise in what if the Cold!-->…

Over the weekend, a well-known British war surgeon practically taught more than 570 Ukrainian doctors and medical professionals how to practice…

Current developments on the international scene reflect an escalating Cold War situation. It has long-term strategic dimensions, as well as intense manifestations and direct repercussions represented in the “special military operation”…

I'm not much of a REM fan, but I had "It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel good)" stuck in my head for days. A disturbing number…

There is a risk of a "new cold war" and that "a new iron curtain will fall on Europe", warned the Secretary of Defense. Ben Wallace said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "playing with fire" by attacking the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site in!-->…

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Australia is hosting an online meeting via Zoom at 4 p.m. (AEDT) on Saturday March 12 to discuss the urgent need to build an international anti-war movement of youth,…

It feels like May 1940 all over again – and that's a good thing in a way. During that distant spring, the German army crossed the Franco-German border to help quench dictator Adolf Hitler's thirst for conquest. France capitulated after…

Last week, the Russian president launched a full-scale invasion of the former Soviet nation despite weeks of talks and threats of sanctions from the West. On Sunday evening, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported 352 civilian deaths,…

A few years ago, when I was editor of a now defunct newspaper in El Paso, Texas, my wife and I bought a house with a deteriorated underground fallout shelter, full of spiders and filthy. in the backyard. It made me shiver, not because of…