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Category Archives: Soviet Union
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Richard Rhodes writes in his 1995 book: * [Lavrentiy] Beria was vulnerable. He had been assigned a vital project which had been given the highest priority of the state, but he lacked the knowledge necessary to judge its progress. He … Continue reading
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Operation Typhoon: Hitler’s March on Moscow, October 1941 by David Stahel
Here are excerpts from this book: * …Germany found it extremely difficult to operate new agents in the Soviet Union. The training programme for agents had in fact been rapidly expanded in 1941, and attempts were made to use agents … Continue reading
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East (Cambridge Military Histories)
David Stahel writes in 2009: * From a military point of view, the likelihood of a German victory was also shared in Britain, with the Joint Intelligence Committee estimating that the Germans would require just six weeks to occupy the … Continue reading
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Socialist Racism: Ethnic Cleansing and Racial Exclusion in the USSR and Israel
Otto Pohl writes: During the 1970s, both the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks in Soviet Central Asia compared their plight to that of the Palestinians. The Stalin regime deported both the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks from their homelands to … Continue reading
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Sovok Jews 4 Trump!
Anatoly Karlin writes: The Atlantic’s Olga Khazan reveals that Russian-American Jews strongly support Trump. “I don’t like big government,” Sundeyeva said. She made two circles with her thumbs and forefingers and pressed them against each other so they touched, like … Continue reading
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Soviet Scientists by Ethnicity as of 1973
Steve Sailer writes: On Unz.com, Anatoly Karlin displays an interesting graph of scientists per capita of over 50 Soviet ethnic groups as of 1973. Not surprisingly, the #1 most scientific ethnicity in the Soviet Union were the Jews and the … Continue reading
Jews, Christians & Loyalty
I love stories of betrayal (even though from a rational perspective, there is no such thing, we use the word for when people important to us have different priorities from what we expected, e.g., if your wife commits adultery, she’s … Continue reading
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LAT: IN RUSSIA, EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRANTS FOUND THE GOOD LIFE
LATIMES.COM: Officials actively recruited skilled foreign laborers and professionals, Blakely said. About 18,000 Americans answered the call to work in the 1930s, he said. Among them were several hundred African Americans who traveled to the Soviet Union, including dozens who … Continue reading
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The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement by Richard Lynn
Richard Lynn: “Many studies have shown that crime is predominantly committed by the less intelligent. Probably the main reasons for this are that the more intelligent have a better understanding of the costs of crime, and since they generally have … Continue reading
The Only Time Dennis Prager Experienced Terror
On Oct. 31, 2014, Dennis got a call from Buck: “You speak Russian and you traveled several times to the Soviet Union. I was wondering if you were ever contacted by the FBI or the CIA or debriefed?” Dennis: “I … Continue reading
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