Been distracted from posting. Trying to prep my long-gestating Big Book on Artificial Intelligence! (Isn't everyone writing one?) But let's zoom in on current events.| CONTRARY BRIN
Reading time: 9minutes The material is from Russian MFA Telegram channel, where one can also watch a short facta newsreel. After a short fact-list from the Telegram post, we re-blog the in-depth version from the MFA’s Telegraph blog. On September 30, 1938, the … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Reading time: 7minutes To conclude (for now) the topic of Finland, let us look at a few caricatures and posters, depicting Finnish actions during its invasion of the USSR. We invite everyone to explore this post at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Reading time: 2minutes On September 19, 1944, the Moscow Armistice was signed between Finland and the USSR, according to which Finland recognised the validity of the peace treaty signed in Moscow in 1940 at the end of the Soviet-Finnish War. During the Winter … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Reading time: 33minutes Below is a complete copy of the report by the Representative office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Petrozavodsk, published at the site of the Russian Foreign Ministry on July 7, 2025. The report can … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Reading time: < 1minute During World War II, Finland became Germany’s strategic ally on the Eastern Front and fought against the Soviet Union. From 1941 to 1944 the Finnish army controlled Karelia, one of the republics of the Soviet Union. Nazi ideas thrived among … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Reading time: 6minutes A cornerstone in the official Finnish Russomania, is the claim that Russia wants to consume the whole of Finland. Our subscriber came across a historic step-by-step summary demonstrating the absolute inconsistency of such an accusation, which we published in a … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Reading time: 3minutes The Soviet-Finnish War began on the last day of autumn, November 30, 1939 By this time, in accordance with the secret additional protocol to the Soviet-German non-aggression pact signed on August 23 of the same year by Vyacheslav Molotov and … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
In times of war and rapidly-escalating tensions between Russia and the West, what role does Russian literature and culture play? In this personal essay, I offer my reflections on the current crisis…| Russophile Reads
I had forgotten about little Samantha Smith, the sweetheart who helped thaw relations between the USA and the USSR. Gazeta Russia has a great pictorial tribute to the young lady, who died 40 years …| PERRIN LOVETT
Every year the CIA goes through a declassifying period, which two years ago led us to write a great blog about the 7 best declassified Soviet jokes! As it| Young Pioneer Tours
The US was the bulwark of The Alleged West. And even in Europe, everyone who mattered supported NATO, as far as we knew. Looking back now, it’s our acceptance of the whole farce that seems odd. You’d think people would catch on after a few decades, but we never did.| THE EXILED – MANKIND'S ONLY ALTERNATIVE
The end of the world at the end of the world| indi.ca
On May 24, 1945, at a reception in the Georgievsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in honour of the commanders of the Soviet forces, Stalin delivered his famous toast, a dedication to the Russian people. This is an article, … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
The 10-minute-long 1944 documentary went under the title «The convoy of the German POWs through Moscow» and show both the preparatory part and the actual passage of the «Parade of the Vanquished», which took place on July 17, 1944. 57,600 … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Sergei Loznitsa’s latest film trades insight for aestheticized rebuke.| East European Film Bulletin
A message I received from Facebook on Jan 29, 2021. Five of my posts were deemed "spam" and erased. Some were somewhat "political" although non-partisan, but two were purely technical. That these posts were erased is an indication that censorship is by now applied to all forms of dissent, not just political ones. It was not unexpected, but it was still somewhat shocking after decades of propaganda that had convinced most of us that the Western world was a place where you could enjoy "freedom ...| Cassandra's Legacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9Luw_CSEg This is the full reconstructed version of the 1945 Victory Day Parade. While the film is in Russian, it is well worth watching it, even without understanding the language — to feel the atmosphere of Victory of 1945! 🎞 … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
On June 24, 1945, the first parade dedicated to the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War was held in Moscow on the Red Square. The combined regiments of the fronts, the combined regiment of the people's Commissariat of … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
We are facing the end of 'the West'. Some of our best science shows the US empire is following the collapse-path of the USSR - but this is also the precursor to the emergence of a new life-cycle for civilisation.| Age of Transformation
If human civilization begins to expand into space, will colonists feel loyalty to their country, their planet, or Elon Musk? The post Outer Space Treaties Didn’t Anticipate the Privatization of Space Travel. Can They Be Enforced? appeared first on Pacific Standard.| Pacific Standard
The prosecution's rebuttal in the Backpage trial cast a net of guilt so wide it could encompass millions of people.| Front Page Confidential
