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The other face of Winston Churchill

16 September 2020
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and leader of the Conservative opposition after the conflict, believed that the atomic bomb should be used against several cities in the USSR to intimidate the Kremlin and keep "communism" in check.
British historian Richard Toye has discovered in the New York Times archives several pieces concerning a memorandum that Julius Ochs Adler - a former US Army officer who became the newspaper’s editor-in-chief (...)

Joint Statement on the 75th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 7 May 2020
Joint statement by the U. S. Secretary of State and the Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia
Marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2020, we pay tribute to the victims and to all soldiers who fought to defeat Nazi Germany and put an end to the Holocaust.
While May 1945 brought the end of the Second World War in Europe, it did not bring freedom to all of Europe. The central and (...)

Russia sets record straight: Poland and German Reich planned deportation of Jews as early as 1938

25 December 2019
Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski (right in the photo).
Speaking to Russia’s top military officers on 24 December 2019, President Vladimir Putin said that he became acquainted with archival documents which were seized during the fall of Berlin in 1945.
They indicate that, in 1938, according to Marshal Józef Piłsudski, Poland contemplated and planned with the German Reich the deportation of Polish and German Jews to Africa.
They are, in all likelihood, related (...)

Hong Kong, the Treaty of Nanjing Returns

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 24 September 2019
Clearly, some young people in Hong Kong have adopted British culture - after the handover to China of their special province. They do not know the history of their country and what they owe to the Peoples’ Republic of China. For their great grandparents, London had brought only misery and desolation, causing the collapse of the Middle Kingdom.

Justin Trudeau Needs a History Lesson

by Michael Jabara Carley

Montreal (Canada) | 1 September 2019
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
On August 23rd the Canadian Prime Minister’s office issued a statement to remember the so-called “black ribbon day,” a bogus holiday established in 2008-2009 by the European Parliament to commemorate the victims of fascist and communist “totalitarianism” and the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact in 1939. Various centre-right political groupings inside the European Parliament, along with the NATO (read US) Parliamentary Assembly (...)

«Current Concerns», n°2, January 23, 2019

Interpreting History

Zurich (Switzerland) | 29 January 2019
War and peace. The tasks of the historical sciences, by Wolfgang van Biezen / 1244 – A Key to Peace in Europe. Defending Serbia’s right to the province of Kosovo and Metohija, by Marina Colic / The yellow vests movement or the unhealed wound of the 2005 referendum, by Arnaud Benedetti / Lessons for democracy when looking at France, by Karl Müller / Legalising Cannabis – who will profit from it?, by Jürg Barben / Free-for-all in the cannabis industry?, by Werner Wüthrich / Reflections on the popular initiative “Stop urban sprawl – for sustainable urban development (urban sprawl initiative)”, by Marianne Wüthrich / Education in the service of peace. To the book by Sara Randell “Ending the War — Operation Sunrise and Max Husmann”, by Winfried Pogorzelski / Cooperative Medical Centre Town of Tengen founded, by Jörg (...)

France apologizes to Serbia following Nato revisionism

18 November 2018
On the occasion of the ceremonies held in Paris on 11 November 2018, the French government excluded the President of Serbia from the main tribune. This was for reasons for protocol. In contrast, Hashim Thaçi, President of Kosovo — a State that did not exist at this time — was given a prominent position close to the French President, Emmanuel Macron.
It was to provide help to Serbia that France entered the First World War.
Serbia lost a quarter of its population during the Great War. Serbian (...)

Stop the Turkish and international crime against Ocalan

by Savvas Kalèndéridès

Athens (Greece) | 9 October 2018
20 years ago, the Kurds of Anatolia were struggling for the recognition of their culture by Turkey. Their leader, Abdullah Ocalan, first of all found refuge in Damascus, close to Hafez el-Assad, but was then kidnapped by Israël and Turkey after an international chase. He is still being held in a Turkish military base. It is since his incarceration that the Kurdish movement has begun to move closer to NATO. The officer of the Greek Intelligence services who accompanied him during his flight now speaks.

Estonia celebrates a Nazi Criminal

27 June 2018
On 22 June a commemorative plaque was dedicated to Colonel Alfons Rebane in Estonia.
Alfons Rebane collaborated with the Third Reich, holding the position of Standartenführer in the SS. He committed several war crimes in the Soviet Union.
The Estonian government did dissociate itself from this commemoration however it refused to go further and condemn it.
After the Second World War, Alfons Rebane collaborated with the United Kingdom in the context of a stay-behind operation (Gladio). (...)

The Russian V-Day Story (or the History of World War II not often Heard in the West)

by Michael Jabara Carley

Montreal (Canada) | 9 May 2018
How many of you have not seen some Hollywood film in which the Normandy landings are the great turning point of the war? “What if the landings had failed,” one often hears? “Oh…, nothing much,” is the appropriate reply. The war would have gone on longer, and the Red Army would have planted its flags on the Normandy beaches coming from the east.
Every May 9th the Russian Federation celebrates its most important national holiday, Victory Day, den’ pobedy. On that day in 1945 Marshal Georgy (...)

Germany will pay compensation to Jewish Algerians

8 February 2018
The Federal Republic of Germany is going to pay a one-off compensation of 2,556 euros per person to the any Jewish person that had lived in Algeria during the Second World War. In this period, about 25, 000 persons lived in Algeria.
To benefit from this compensation, you (a Jewish person) will have to prove that you had lived in Algeria between the French-German armistice of 22 June 1940 and Operation Torch (when the Allies disembarked in North Africa) on 8 November 1942. During this (...)

The Cuban Communist Party: unity and revolution in perpetual motion

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 5 October 2017
It was the night of 3 October 1965, in Havana, in what was then called the Chaplin Theatre (now known as the Carlos Marx Theatre): the very first Central Committee of the Communist Party was established and it established its official media, the newspaper, the Granma, the culmination of a defining stage in consolidating the Revolution.

When UN Gardens are visited by the olive green

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 20 September 2017
In UN headquarters in New York, there was really not much the Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold, could say in response to Fidel Castro, Cuba’s Prime Minister, as he was setting out to camp in the gardens of the UN building. This was Fidel’s response to a hotel in New York City refusing to let him and his country’s delegation to the 15th Session of the General Assembly, continue to stay there.

The Secret History of L’Oréal

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 17 June 2017
L’Oréal, the cosmetic giant, has just announced that it will restructure its capital. Thus the holding company established by Eugene Schueller during the Second World War will be wound up. The founder of this group was also one of the main financiers of the plot by La Cagoule and French Nazis. When France was liberated from German occupation, L’Oréal and its foreign subsidiaries provided refuge to criminals on the run. Today, the heiress of this group, Liliane Bettencourt, has become the richest woman in France. L’Oréal’s history reveals the hidden face of contemporary French politics.

State Security Agencies: a response to strategies of aggression

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 4 April 2017
On Tuesday 23 December 1958, top officials of the North American government had their Christmas holidays interrupted by having to attend a meeting chaired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to evaluate the Cuban situation.

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