Joseph Stalin

Scott Walker — “The Old Man’s Back Again (Dedicated to the Old Stalinist Regime)” — Scott Walker wrote this song in response to the Soviet-Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in ’68 — with the “Old Man” being Josef Stalin. I can’t think of a more appropriate song to feature today — it appears that Stalin’s ghost has indeed returned to haunt Russia (and the world). …

IF I WILL BECOME EYES TO THE BLIND,FEET TO THE LAME,VOICE TO THE VOICELESS AND HOPE TO THE HOPELESS, AND THAT WILL MAKE ME LONELY IN THE END, I OPT FOR IT. I have read so many great books on great men, stemming from great political leaders to inventors. And…

Joseph Stalin governed the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945…

Looking back on the biggest aerial resupply mission ever launched — After World War II ended, the Allies partitioned the defeated Germany into a Soviet-occupied zone, an American-occupied zone, a British-occupied zone, and a French-occupied zone.

World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies — France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a…