“As Lavrenti Beria stood over Joseph Stalin’s deathbed in early March 1953, witnesses observed that he could barely contain his pleasure in watching the leader edge toward his final moments of life.” Beria — Stalin’s First Lieutenant by Amy Knight is a well-written, exemplary biography that attempts to “challenge some basic assumptions” about Lavrenti Beria […]
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Nominated by President Barack Obama (after Justice John Paul Stevens retired in April 2010), Elena Kagan has been the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed without prior experience as a judge since the appointment of William Rehnquist in 1972. It now seems to me that her nomination by President Obama was payback for the fact
The Sale of Indulgences A few words are in order regarding the Sale of Indulgences that Martin Luther so much decried. The clergy were authorized by the Catholic Church to absolve penitents from the guilt of his sins and from punishment in the hellish inferno of the hereafter, but it did not absolve them from
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Press Release (Monday) November 14, 2011: Stalin’s Mysterious Death Did Stalin, the Soviet dictator, die a peaceful death in his bed or was he poisoned by Beria? What is the new medical evidence? With the possible exception of Mao Tse-tung, the greatest mass murderer in history was Joseph Dzhugashvili, who was better known as Stalin
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The Encyclopedia of Revolutions and Revolutionaries: From Anarchism to Zhou Enlai by Martin van Creveld, Editor-in-Chief, is an essential reference book for those interested in researching the history of revolutions and revolutionaries. The main drawback is the liberal, left-of-center academic bias that one has come to expect in most of these types of books. And
Robert B. Farquhar, an anti-nuclear activist from Georgia, who has written a book on the subject titled Duck and Cover, asserts that, “In 1946 the U.S. had about 7 atomic bombs, none completely assembled; by 1956, 5,000, all assembled; Russia had about 150.” (1) And yet, Stalin and Beria estimated that the number of atomic bombs
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