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4 giorni fa · Patriarch Shevchuk, on the 75th anniversary last year, spoke of the effect on the Orthodox, the supposed beneficiary of Stalin’s policy. In 1942, Stalin had revived the Russian Orthodox Church in order to build up national solidarity in the fight against Hitler; it became akin to a branch of the state.
3 giorni fa · Warsaw Uprising; Part of Operation Tempest in the Eastern Front of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Civilians construct an anti-tank ditch in Wola district; German anti-tank gun in Theatre Square; Home Army soldier defending a barricade; Ruins of Bielańska Street; Insurgents leave the city ruins after surrendering to German forces; Allied transport planes airdrop supplies near Holy ...
2 giorni fa · Stalin was really short. Stalin was only 5’4” tall (or short, to be accurate), a fact that earned him the nickname “the little squirt.”. Ironically, the man who gave him this nickname- American president Harry S. Truman- was about 5’7” himself. 6.
1 giorno fa · Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG , OM , CH , PC , FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee served as Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime coalition ...
5 giorni fa · Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. London, Vintage, 2011, ISBN: 9780099551799; 544pp.; Price: £56.08. Tim Snyder’s ambitious Bloodlands set out to place the murderous regimes of the Third Reich and Stalin’s Soviet Union in their overlapping European contexts. Snyder proceeded from the central observation that the annihilation ...
21 ore fa · The third film follows 2022’s sequel Downton Abbey: A New Era. The stars of Downton Abbey will return for a third movie. (Focus Features) Good news for all those who know their soup spoon from their salad fork – Downton Abbey 3 is officially in the works and will be gracing cinemas with its presence in the not too distant future. The movie ...
