Gorbachev

Photo by Micah Williams on Unsplash Is Joe Biden, for no fault of his, presiding over the decline and the collapse of the United States? …

On January 20, 2021, we honor the 31st anniversary of what is known as “Black January’’, a day when over 26,000 Soviet troops stormed Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku and committed a brutal massacre upon the civilian population, killing and wounding hundreds of men, women, children and the elderly. Black…

For 45 years, generations of Americans and Europeans struggled with and ultimately accepted a nuclear-laden and bellicose Communist bloc, the United Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the borders of Austria. For a time, it seemed inevitable that this gargantuan amalgam of nations would only…

As the time passes, political map of Europe has changed. It is caused by several events such as the fall of the USSR, the dissolution of the Eastern block, as well as the enlargement of the European Union. Aside from the map change, Russia has become a place surrounded by…

Algunas razones de su enorme popularidad en el aparato mediático de Occidente Por Máximo Relti / Canarias Semanal Viernes, 26 de octubre de 2012 Personajes tan reaccionarios como el presidente norteamericano Ronald Reagan y la primera ministra británica Margaret Thatcher -ambos coetáneos de Gorbachov- mostraron su “admiración” y “respeto” por el controvertido personaje. La ex primera ministra británica recordaría años más tarde…

Eavesdropping on world leaders and their wives. by Joe Kilroy ___________________________ When I was in Moscow so many moons ago I was lucky once to be in a cafe smoking a hookah and on the other side, behind me, I could hear the unmistakeable voices of Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev. It being a Friday, Mikhail had…