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Joe Biden pays tribute to victims of the Armenian genocide

by Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 24 April 2021

Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople (...)

“The art of war”

Thirty years ago, the Gulf War

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 19 January 2021

For President George H. Bush, the aim of Operation Desert Storm was not so much to defeat Iraq as to establish a "New World Order", in agreement with the last President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. It was about acknowledging the agony of the USSR and creating a world governed by the (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

«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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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) (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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