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What Russia Rightfully Remembers, America Forgets
June 30, 2019
What Trump overlooked in his presentation was the reality that the liberation of Europe began long before the D-Day landings. And the burden had almost exclusively been born by the Soviets.
D-Day More Difficult Than You Think
June 26, 2019
It would be good if both sides calmed down and stopped claiming either that D-Day won the war or that it was a very minor offstage event. But that’s probably too much to hope for today.
Why Russia’s Victory Day Was Crucial for the Survival of ‘European Values’
May 30, 2019
The USSR, with significant help from the rest of us, defeated Hitler and changed the world away from that dark and horrible future. At enormous cost.
How the US Created the Cold War
May 29, 2019
The problem isn’t that Truman often misunderstood, but that he surrounded himself with people that his Party’s top donors liked. Truman wanted to be a progressive but ended up being only a liberal.
