The Katyn Massacre

Thousands of Polish army officers were captured by the Soviet Red army in 1939 and were sent to prison camps near Smolensk Russia. Once the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 (breaking their “Non-Aggression Pact”), the British and the Soviets became allies. The...

The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

August 23, 1939 is another date that should live in infamy. On that day, an agreement was made between Hitler and Stalin that sealed the fate of the 35 million free people of Poland. The Soviet Union (Communist-occupied Russia) was casting about trying to reach some...

Holodomor

From 1932-1933 the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Marxist-socialist dictator Joseph Stalin, orchestrated one of the greatest famines in modern history. Most famines happen due to changing weather or some other natural phenomenon. This famine was created by a...

Stalin’s Show Trials

From 1936-1938 Joseph Stalin arranged to have a whole host of “enemies” brought to trial and executed. The accused were not innocent until proven guilty. They were automatically guilty of whatever the paranoid Stalin accused them of (or rather, whatever his secret...

Procopius

Procopius is another one of those little known, but extremely important scholars/historians of long ago to whom we owe an enormous debt of gratitude. He was a lawyer and legal advisor in the court of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (mid-sixth century). The western...