Hello. As you are probably aware, in August of 1939, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed and established non-aggression between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and designated their “spheres of influence” in Eastern Europe. The invasions of Poland that occured afterwards are considered to be the beginning of World War…

During the Cold War, the Western Bloc would do just about anything to prevent the spread of communism. Whether it was meddling in elections, supporting death squads or military coups, or even direct invasions, it was their primary goal. One of their most shocking anti-communist attempts was that of Operation…

By the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had become United States enemy number one. His brutality had been used constantly by the U.S. to justify their illegal invasion, but it was not always like that. For a time, the U.S. saw Saddam as…

World War II was a war of unprecedented scale, destruction, and brutality. At the head of this was the Axis Powers, a fascist military alliance headed by Nazi Germany, the Empire of Japan, and fascist Italy. Alongside these empires were Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, a couple of Nazi puppet states, and……

Throughout the 20th century, LGBTQ rights were genuinely very poor by today’s standards. Socialist countries such as the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China were no exception to this. Though this was not out of the ordinary at the time, homosexuality was illegal in the USSR from 1934…

During the Cold War, many countries experienced communist revolutions. Notable examples include Vietnam, Cuba, Angola, and China. Very few of these revolutions happened in the Americas, due to extensive suppression from the United States, but one such forgotten instance was Grenada. Grenada is a small island country in the Caribbean…