19 ore fa · The Great Purge or the Great Terror ( Russian: Большой террор/Boĺšoj terror ), also known as the Year of '37 ( 37-й год, Tridcať seďmoj god) and the Yezhovshina ('period of Yezhov '), [8] was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin 's campaign to solidify his power over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the state, by removal and executi...
- 1936–1938
- 700,000 to 1.2 million, (higher estimates overlap with at least 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system)
28 nov 2023 · A poster for hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7 by Hamas in Israel is torn and covered with a “Zionism Is Terrorism” sticker on Nov. 7, 2023, in New York. Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty...
28 nov 2023 · Karen Ullo is an award-winning novelist and the editorial director of Chrism Press. Her novel To Crown with Liberty (forthcoming May 2024) is set during the French Revolution. Find her on the web at karenullo.com. https://karenullo.com. Karen Ullo writes about how, sometimes, no verbal signage is needed to recognize the violence of the past.
28 nov 2023 · Nathan Castellanos Lit Stack Nov 28, 2023 2 Share Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Claudia Espejo, an immortal demon child, had been an avenger of all children who had suffered abuse at the hands of warped and twisted men, for nearly two-hundred years.
28 nov 2023 · Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, applauded the government’s change of mind. “This bill will deliver a blow to those inflamed with vicious antisemitism who have ...
27 nov 2023 · On Sunday, Hamas released a group of fourteen Israeli and three foreign nationals - with four-year-old American-Israeli Avigail Idan among them. Israel freed a further 39 Palestinian prisoners in ...
2 ore fa · Movies emphasizing the grisly horrors of period warfare have been made before, but where Scott's film breaks new ground is in its mordant portrayal of its central figure. Joaquin Phoenix plays Napoleon as a blustery weirdo, in thrall to his first wife Josephine (Vanessa Kirby), despite—or perhaps because of—her rampant affairs.