On August 23, 2024 it was announced that Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been invited to join as full members from January 1 next year. The news of the ...
Vladimir Putin has long peddled a narrative of World War II that whitewashes Soviet complicity in the outset of hostilities in Europe. To justify Russian aggression today, he wholly ignores Moscow’s ...
President Vladimir Putin is writing an article to justify the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which paved the way to the Second World War. Leaders generally do not attempt to excuse their countries’ ...
The 75th anniversary of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union pledged non-aggression toward each other and shortly thereafter divided Poland, passed with ...
Hidden early alliance: Victory Day commemorations leave out the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany, which divided Eastern Europe. Shaping public memory: Official narratives ...
Parade without context: This year’s scaled-back Victory Day parade in Moscow celebrated Soviet heroism but avoided the early alliance with Nazi Germany. Forgotten pact: The 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop ...