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- Famous Moustaches in History Would people remember Nietzsche if he hadn't had a huge moustache? Would you recognize a picture of Hitler if he had shaved off his moustache? I'm sure it would have fooled Uruguayan immigration. Why do people wear such things on their faces? This le...
- Mikhail Bulgakov's "Master & Margarita" The Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a satirist with an outstanding talent for depicting the grotesque, the comic, and the fantastic. The novel, "Master and Margarita" is Bulgakov's greatest work. It is a c...
- Faberge Eggs - The Style, the design, from Russia! Priceless masterpieces, opulent symbols of Easter, or fancy, useless trinkets, Faberge eggs have meant different things to different people. To collectors, they are precious, rare, and highly prized. To Stalin and his lackeys, they were reminders of...
- Pseudo-Socialism How come? Capitalism is an economic system but socialism is just a movement? Probably, socialism is an economic system also? What if it is a system where classes existed? What if it is a system in which the principal means of production, distribution...
- Katyn Massacre - One Of Poland's Greatest National Tragedies The Katyn massacre, also the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katynska, 'Katyn crime'), was a mass execution of Polish citizens ordered by Soviet authorities (NKVD - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) in 1940. Estimates of the number...
- Josip Broz Tito This article is about a charismatic man who kept Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Monte Negro united in one strong country - Yugoslavia for more than 40 years. Many people from former Yugoslav Republic will argue about his good influ...
- Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky was one of the leaders of the October Revolution in Russia and was second only to Vladimir Lenin, but his opposition to Stalin and the bureaucratization of the USSR led to his expulsion from the communist party, his deportation and his e...
- 1984 by George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (a pseudonym for english author Eric Arthur Blair) was first published June 8, 1949 by Secker and Warburg, now an imprint of Random House Publishing. This lense will contain spoilers. A dystopian novel, 1984 focu...
- Crimea The Crimean peninsula is an exemplar of the importance of geography to history. A small peninsula jutting Southward from the North shore of the Black Sea, the strategic importance of its harbors can hardly be over-stressed. Conquered dozens of times,...
- Background of World War Two World War II, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict, the joining of what had initially been two separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War; the other began in Europe in 1939 with the German i...
- Adolf Hitler One of the Greatest Leaders of our time, one of the most hated Leaders of all time. Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor) of Germany f...
- Socialism in America "Change" This is what president Barack Hussien Obama has promised us. Unfortunately its not the change we want or can afford. His change will lead us down a road of despair (loss of hope; hopelessness) and financial bankruptcy. Then all Americans wil...
- Book Review: Animal Farm By George Orwell The real name of George Orwell was actually Eric Blair. He was born in Burma in 1903 and subsequently his mother brought him to England in 1904 for his education. George Orwell was bullied by his classmates at St. Cyprian. In addition, the school was...
- AMERICA IN FREE-FALL You decide ... I created this fractal awhile ago but have been a bit wary of showing it with the Orwellian wording. The tension in the country has really had me quite afraid to say or show anything that might be considered to be a voice against the g...
- The Jewish Autonomous Oblast This autonomous region of Russia, on the border with China, is approaching its 80th birthday. Beginning in 1928, the region was declared a zone of resettlement for the Russian Jews They did not go to this hostile territory in very large numbers, nor...
