• From Pompeii to Nazi Germany, from Alexander's conquests to Communist Russia, the normalcy bias has killed more human beings than any other factor in history. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • That same year Nazi Germany recognized the thugocracy. (conservativetruth.org)
  • From 1941 until 1945, the Baltic states were occupied by Nazi Germany. (rt.com)
  • Thus, Poland was quickly subjugated by her collectivist, totalitarian neighbors - the communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, which were allies and co-conspirators via the signed Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty (aka. (gopusa.com)
  • Most impressively, in the hugely crowded field of the second world war and Nazi Germany, it manages to explore an area of profound significance that had previously been overlooked. (harvard.edu)
  • He drew the comparison between the alliance against Nazi Germany during World War II between the United States and the USSR, pointing out how risible it would be to construe that as the incorporation of the former into the latter state. (rferl.org)
  • The 14 nations that were forced by Russia to "join" the USSR were in a similar position. (conservativetruth.org)
  • The USSR began with a forced treaty in 1922 that joined Ukraine, Belarus and the Trans Caucasus with Russia. (conservativetruth.org)
  • As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation (after Russia), Germany is a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. (indexmundi.com)
  • The opinion of most military leaders around the world, not just in Germany, was that Germany would easily defeat Russia within a month or two. (axishistory.com)
  • Today in 1918, Lithuania declared their Independence from Russia and the German Empire. (brookstonbeerbulletin.com)
  • They mean that Putin's Russia genuinely resembles [Benito] Mussolini's Italy or [Adolf] Hitler's Germany," Alexander Motyl, professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, specializing on Ukraine, Russia, and the former Soviet Union, wrote in April 2015. (yahoo.com)
  • If Putin's Russia is fascist, then it is comparable to Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy and, thus, certifiably evil. (yahoo.com)
  • Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. (h-net.org)
  • 1] Indeed, one could hardly walk by a book kiosk or table in Moscow during that summer without passing either Icebreaker or Suvorov's follow-up work, Den'-M .[2] Gabriel Gorodetsky's The Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia was written, in part, to respond to Suvorov's claims. (h-net.org)
  • The quid required of Russia was acquiescence to a reunited Germany within NATO and withdrawal of the 300,000-plus Russian troops stationed in East Germany. (truthdig.com)
  • The U.S. reneged on its quo side of the bargain as the NATO alliance added country after country east of Germany with eyes on even more - while Russia was not strong enough to stop NATO expansion until February 2014 when, as it turned out, NATO's eyes finally proved too big for its stomach. (truthdig.com)
  • September 27, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- As Russia celebrates the 450th anniversary of the 'voluntary incorporation' of three of its present-day North Caucasus republics into the Russian Empire, historians are contesting the notion that a 1557 alliance between Muscovy and Karbarda constituted imperial accession. (rferl.org)
  • It also demonstrates the tension bound to arise between the great Western empire forming now in Europe, and the return to imperialism occurring in Mother Russia. (thetrumpet.com)
  • One is a resurrection of the age-old Roman Empire, the other a revival of czarist Russia. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Yes, Lenin was forced to travel via Germany to Finland in order to reach revolutionary Russia. (marxist.com)
  • If Russia and France militarise to the extent that they could seek a rematch with the Central Powers they will alarm Britain and Japan, particularly if Germany and Austria-Hungary have demilitarised a bit and are integrated into the global economy. (alternatehistory.com)
  • Well, Blitzkrieg-esque tactics by France and Russia might be the 'great equalizer' in such a conflict with a Germany which has gone complacent and hasn't done much in the field of military innovation (keep in mind the Nazis IOTL did in six weeks what the forces of the Kaiser failed to do in four years using Blitzkrieg). (alternatehistory.com)
  • I think the trope would have a Soviet Russia and communist France, of course giving us a proto-Nazi reactionary Germany, but I think that is pastiche. (alternatehistory.com)
  • Instead I would stalemate the war and reverse the roles, by the early 1930s you have increasingly Socialist Germany facing the increasingly right-wing Republics of defeated and humiliated Russia and France. (alternatehistory.com)
  • Germany has imposed a harsh Versailles like peace upon Russia and with British influence had not done so effectively to France. (alternatehistory.com)
  • The authors describe a history of surgical congresses in the Russian Empire, the USSR and the Russian Federation from the I Congress of Russian Surgeons held on December 28-30, 1900 in Moscow in the building of the Moscow Meeting of Doctors to the XLVIII (XIV) Congress of Surgeons of Russia held on November 25-27, 2022 in Moscow in the hotel «Cosmos¼. (bvsalud.org)
  • The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German reunification in 1990. (indexmundi.com)
  • Actually, NATO has doubled in size, despite a U.S. quid-pro-quo promise in early 1990 to Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev in early 1990 not to expand NATO "one inch" to the east of Germany. (truthdig.com)
  • Then, as Germany was reuniting, the Soviet Union began to break apart â€" what Putin calls the great tragedy of the 20th century. (buchanan.org)
  • European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating world wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. (indexmundi.com)
  • Once Germany attacked the Soviet Union, they became super-American-patriots-for the sake of the USSR. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. (harvard.edu)
  • In the midst of one of our many conversations, he surprised me with the assertion that Stalin was, of course, responsible for the rise of Adolf Hitler, and in addition, that Hitler attacked the Soviet Union to prevent a Soviet offensive against Germany. (h-net.org)
  • The tragedy for the Soviet Union and its citizens was that, despite growing warnings, Stalin deluded himself into thinking that his policy was working, until the actual German invasion told him otherwise. (h-net.org)
  • To that end, he followed a policy of strict neutrality, and feared that both Germany and Britain might attempt to draw the Soviet Union into the war. (h-net.org)
  • This palace built in the style of a country manor was originally intended as a residence for the last Crown Prince of the German Empire, but came to host the Potsdam Conference in 1945. (insidertour.com)
  • The world has changed enormously in the nearly 23 years since the collapse of the USSR. (russiancouncil.ru)
  • When Vladimir Putin called the collapse of the USSR the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century, he had in mind only the expected consequences - the disappearance of a state that gave structure to the Eurasian space and stood as one of the two pillars of the world order in the second half of the 20th century. (russiancouncil.ru)
  • Almost 23 years have passed since the collapse of the USSR - more than separated the two world wars. (russiancouncil.ru)
  • The roots of the neoliberal perspective sprung from a world shattered by the collapse of empires and the chaos produced by the first World War. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Independent again after collapse of USSR, but currently hard times and rise in anti-Semitism. (audiobooks.com)
  • After the collapse of USSR, there are positive signs of democratic growth. (audiobooks.com)
  • After the collapse of Stephan Dushan's Serbian Empire, and the death of Scanderbeg, the feudal lords were soon overrun by the Turks. (travelnotes.org)
  • Finally, on the plane of international relations, the war has brought about the collapse and the complete disintegration of German, Japanese, and Italian imperialisms, the weakening and serious decline of British imperialism. (marxist.com)
  • The Evil Empire, having rotted to the core, imploded from within and the end of the USSR came in 1991. (gopusa.com)
  • Independence for Ukraine was achieved in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR. (scasd.org)
  • Apart from the millions killed, the war destroyed four empires - Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and German. (russiancouncil.ru)
  • The Nazis started the separatist tendencies of Croatia and thus sowed the seeds of the present mess in Yugoslavia, as did the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires. (boloji.com)
  • Did any of Hitler's most trusted generals warn the Führer against being overconfident of victory over Great Britain and the USSR just because the Wehrmacht had overrun Poland, Benelux, and France with considerable ease? (axishistory.com)
  • War guarantees to Poland kept Hitler from attacking USSR. (issues2000.org)
  • Poland followed suit in 1939, wiped off the map in the German Blitzkrieg - invaded as it was from the west by the German Army, and from the east by the Russian Soviet army. (gopusa.com)
  • With the exception of the Hungarian Uprising in 1957, which was quickly crushed, and the Prague Spring in 1968, which was also almost immediately suppressed, no other major upheaval threatening the Soviet empire occurred until the 1980s with the rise of the Solidarity Movement and the resurgence of the Roman Catholic Church resistance to communism in Poland. (gopusa.com)
  • So it is easy to comprehend the apprehension Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, former trampled nations and Soviet satellites, feel when contemplating citizen disarmament by the mandates of an EU that is still dominated by socialistic Western Europe, Scandinavia, France, and Germany. (gopusa.com)
  • Galicia, Austrian Empire to Poland to Ukraine: Using Resources to Identify Families & Places. (feefhs.org)
  • And even a somewhat complacent Germany and Austria-Hungary (plus Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Finland, Kingdom of Lithuania, United Baltic Duchy and Sultanate of Turkey) is going to be a big power bloc to decide to declare war on. (alternatehistory.com)
  • Renamed Empire Thames in 1949, scrapped in March 1949 at Antwerp, Belgium. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). (indexmundi.com)
  • With the disintegration of the USSR, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova were soon gone. (buchanan.org)
  • Albania allied itself first with the USSR (until 1960), and then with China (to 1978). (travelnotes.org)
  • Gorodetsky's substantial research easily refutes Suvorov's thesis: there is no indication that Stalin was planning to go to war against Germany in the summer of 1941. (h-net.org)
  • The British Empire issued passports in almost all of their territories," says Topol. (atlasobscura.com)
  • At its zenith in the 19th century, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the earth's surface. (indexmundi.com)
  • So Putin has begun the re-creation of the former USSR by forcibly stealing the Crimean Peninsula, a republic of Ukraine. (conservativetruth.org)
  • Germany apart, the rest of Europe - the Baltic states and Ukraine, in particular - have viewed Macron as a preening, Putin-loving nincompoop at best, an outright menace to European security and NATO's integrity at worst. (politico.com)
  • Internet Sources for Locating Your 19th century German Emigrant. (feefhs.org)
  • In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops, fighting in regions as far apart as the Sahara and the Caucasus, confronted the Allies across lands largely populated by Muslims. (harvard.edu)
  • If Stalin saw the war as a chance for the Allies and Germany to bleed themselves white and let the Soviets move in and pick up the pieces, as others have argued, then it is not evident in the documents. (h-net.org)
  • The most obvious reason for wide-spread support for the war, on the Left and far beyond, was the nature of the Axis powers: mainly Germany, Italy, and Japan. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Between imperial and independent states were the murky enclaves of 'informal empire', stretching from Latin America to the Ottoman Empire to China, in which Europe and the US interfered - whether by means of force or intrusive economic 'meddling' - to promote their own interests. (lrb.co.uk)
  • English is widely understood and many Germans from former East Germany speak Russian. (countryreports.org)
  • You will also get to walk around the "Forbidden City", one of the most important Soviet intelligence sites in East Germany during the Cold War. (insidertour.com)
  • The Middle East is reminiscent of a cross between the last days of the Ottoman Empire and the nationalistic fervor of decolonization. (russiancouncil.ru)
  • Keshayev argued that the marriage of Tsar Ivan the Terrible to Guashana, the daughter of Kabardian Prince Temryuk Iradov, cemented a 'military-political alliance' between two equal princedoms under which Muscovy undertook to protect Kabarda in the event of an attack either by the Ottoman Turks or the Khanate of Crimea, not the 'incorporation' of Kabarda into the Russian Empire. (rferl.org)
  • Past rule by the Ottoman-Turkish Empire leaves ethnic animosity between the Greeks and Turks, especially apparent in Cyprus. (audiobooks.com)
  • In 1876, the khedive of Egypt, theoretically a subject ruler of the Ottoman Empire, invited the British and the French to set up a debt commission, staffed by European officials, with extensive quasi-sovereign powers to tax, spend and direct Egyptian revenue, and to supervise debt. (lrb.co.uk)
  • Ismail Qemal led a series of revolts against Turkey, and on November 28, 1912, Albania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, but was conquered by Italy in 1939 and occupied by Germany in 1943. (travelnotes.org)
  • Such skewing of history to conform to and substantiate political dogma, specifically the myth of friendship and brotherhood among the various peoples of the USSR, was a prominent component of Soviet communist ideology. (rferl.org)
  • The follies of WW1 also partly caused the Russian Revolution and the emergence of Communist USSR. (boloji.com)
  • Had been connected to the Austrian empire ruled by the Hapsburgs as a dual monarchy. (audiobooks.com)
  • The new authorities soon issued formal requests to join the USSR. (rt.com)
  • At COP, it's often taken for granted that the end of formal empires only occluded the links between colonialism and global capitalism and that multinationals and technocrats are the new face of exploitation. (lrb.co.uk)
  • Being weaker than Germany, its capitalist establishment had been eager to save itself from economic crisis and working class discontent by bringing the Fascist Party to power. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Italy would probably stay neutral - the Russians would be weaker than the OTL USSR and hard to see France being any stronger than OTL. (alternatehistory.com)
  • I read that Field Marshal Gert Von Rundstedt noted the stark reality of "Ost-krieg" versus what had played out in the West vis a vis France and Great Britain militarily, and that several German generals cautioned Hitler about waging a two-front war in Europe. (axishistory.com)
  • Wilson's arrogance and stupidity led to crushing unbearable war reparation burdens on Germany by France and Britain setting the stage for the demise of the League of Nations, hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic and the ascent of Hitler, the Nazi Third Reich and WW2. (boloji.com)
  • Italy, Serbia and Romania would be quiet useless and even if Austro-Hungary and Germany are politically similar as UK and France in OTL Serbia and Romania hardly get chances re-militarise themselves. (alternatehistory.com)
  • NATO's first Secretary General, Lord Ismay, who had been Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during World War II, stated that NATO's purpose was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. (truthdig.com)
  • The rules of global capitalism require that international debts are repaid, and the great powers resorted to the methods of empire to ensure they were, even when supposedly independent states were involved. (lrb.co.uk)
  • It sought to build a new empire in North Africa and the Middle East. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Islam and Nazi Germany's War reveals how German troops on the ground in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Eastern front engaged with diverse Muslim populations, including Muslim Roma and Jewish converts to Islam. (harvard.edu)
  • Hence the absurd plan to find living space for overcrowded German farmers instead of moving them to work in the cities. (axishistory.com)
  • It is the only nation that moves toward democracy after World War I treaties of independence, but is betrayed by the West to Germany. (audiobooks.com)
  • But then Hitler's entire concept was precisely to quickly defeat the USSR and absorb its economic potential. (axishistory.com)
  • To MoWT in 1942 and renamed Empire Thrush. (wikipedia.org)
  • As early as 22 March 1942 Fromm informed Keitel that he was worried that large scale offensive operations were not feasible in 1942 because of manpower and munitions shortages and when the offensive into the Caucasus began that summer Fromm told Speer that it was a luxury Germany could ill-afford in the " poor man's " situation in which it found itself. (axishistory.com)
  • Matters came to a head after the Soviet encirclement of the German forces at Stalingrad in November 1942. (axishistory.com)
  • On the contrary, Gorodetsky's Stalin was a cautious and increasingly timid leader, trying to protect the Soviet Union's national security interests while desperately hoping to delay a war with Germany, until at least 1942 or preferably even 1943 when Stalin believed the Red Army would be truly capable of dealing with the Wehrmacht . (h-net.org)
  • In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro. (indexmundi.com)
  • It was written in 1999, in the lead-up to Pat Buchanan's entrance into the 2000 presidential race, and focuses on his policy concept that the United States should act like a Republic (i.e., responsive to the people) rather than an Empire (i.e., against adventurism abroad). (issues2000.org)
  • The three Baltic states were part of the Russian Empire from the 18th century until the 1917 revolution. (rt.com)
  • The Russian Foreign Ministry contends that the three states were absorbed by the USSR in accordance with international laws and norms that were in force in the mid-20th century. (rt.com)
  • After World War II, the masters were no longer the German Nazis but the "liberating" Russian communists, who in the aftermath occupied by force much of Central and all of Eastern Europe using the Soviet Army working in tandem with the KGB. (gopusa.com)
  • Introduction to Russian Empire Records. (feefhs.org)
  • In September 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a series of presidential edicts 'on marking the 450th anniversary of the voluntary incorporation' into the Russian Empire of the present-day Adygeya, Karachayevo-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria. (rferl.org)
  • During the latter part of the 18th century, most Ukrainian territory was taken over by the Russian Empire. (scasd.org)
  • Unfortunately for Stalin, these goals became increasingly incompatible and eventually untenable as they conflicted with changing German interests. (h-net.org)
  • Your expert guide will describe the talks held between the leaders of the UK, US and USSR - Churchill (and later Attlee), Truman and Stalin: these negotiations were to seal the fate of Cold War Europe for the subsequent half century. (insidertour.com)
  • The specter of socialism and communism in Hungary, part of the old Habsburg Empire, which briefly went red in 1919, added to their anxiety. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • The empire collapses after World War I, becomes a fascistic dictatorship with strong anti-Semitism. (audiobooks.com)
  • Finally dry-docked in July 1943, repairs were assessed as possible, but materials were unavailable as two of the ships carrying them had been sunk en route. (wikipedia.org)
  • The German capitalist class had responded to the world economic crisis of the 'thirties by junking its capitalist democracy and putting the Nazis in power. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • During our in-depth tour, you will have the chance to admire Potsdam's answer to the Brandenburg Gate on your way to Sanssouci Palace, often referred to as the "Versailles of Germany" and a masterpiece of rococo architecture. (insidertour.com)
  • Imperialism refers to the process of expansion and conquest necessary in the construction of an empire. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Conversely, it has spurred the tremendous development of American imperialism and, on the other hand, the territorial expansion of the USSR and the growth of its effective influence over large sectors of Europe and Asia. (marxist.com)
  • Archival materials from Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Germany, and Britain supplement and contextualize this already impressive source base. (h-net.org)
  • Of primary concern to Britain and Europe at the time was Russia's steady expansion of its empire westward. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The amazing thing is, of course, that after losing the first war to a global coalition that controlled the sea and was economically 3 or 4 times stronger than Germany, they really thought the situation had changed to their benefit by 1939. (axishistory.com)
  • For most countries, this entry gives the date that sovereignty was achieved and from which nation, empire, or trusteeship. (cia.gov)
  • Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance by Jamie Martin . (lrb.co.uk)
  • Made up of a variety of states and ethnicities and becomes independent after World War I. Tito leads the underground resistance against German occupation during World War II. (audiobooks.com)
  • In World War II, German and Soviet armies were responsible for some 7 to 8 million more deaths. (scasd.org)
  • The Ukrainian election crisis reveals two great empires on a collision course! (thetrumpet.com)
  • WWI unleashed revanchism in Germany, weakened democracies and markets, and strengthened the USSR, which existed in an alternate economic universe. (russiancouncil.ru)
  • the US, USSR, and UK are 55.5 - and that's better than 2-1 in OUTPUT as of 1938, years before the US economic and military mobilization. (axishistory.com)
  • Jamie Martin's impressive new book, The Meddlers , considers the League of Nations and other interwar precursors of 'neutral' institutions of doux commerce to show how closely the 'birth of global economic governance' was entangled with empire. (lrb.co.uk)
  • Drawing on archival research in three continents, David Motadel explains how German officials tried to promote the Third Reich as a patron of Islam. (harvard.edu)
  • The USSR then promoted strife in China and Korea and Japan was a ruthless perpetrator of atrocities throughout Southeast Asia and China. (boloji.com)
  • He did this without regard to tens of thousands of US citizen casualties to salvage the huge loans of US banks to the British government which would have been lost if Germany won. (boloji.com)
  • And French wouldln't be very motivated when they have lost badly two previous wars against Germany only in fifty years. (alternatehistory.com)