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Vladimir Putin and others have in which Russia or Soviet leaders purportedly explored joining NATO, but the historical record shows these were informal overtures or post-hoc claims rather than a docum...
The claim that DNA tests are outright illegal in Israel is false; what exists is a tight regulatory and legal framework that restricts who may perform genetic testing, where and why tests may be done,...
Historians agree that approximately six million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust, a figure established and memorialized by major institutions including the United States Holocaust Memo...
Bolshevik and later Soviet policy systematically suppressed and persecuted Christianity across denominations: sources report executions of clergy (for example “28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,2...
The core claim is that approximately by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Holocaust, and that —including Soviet POWs, Poles, Roma, people with disabilities, and others—also died under Nazi...
Western leaders made verbal assurances in 1990 focused on Germany’s reunification, including James Baker’s line that “NATO’s jurisdiction… would not move one inch eastward,” but no legally binding, wr...
Israel’s Jewish population is diverse but official breakdowns by neat ancestral categories (Ashkenazi, Sephardi/Mizrahi, Ethiopian, Russian, mixed) are not consistently reported in one definitive gove...
Claims that “Russia has invaded 19 countries in the last 100 years” are not directly confirmed by the available sources; reporting and scholarly lists document many Soviet and Russian interventions an...
Estimates of how many people the Bolsheviks killed vary widely depending on period, method and definition: some accounts count millions in the Russian Civil War and famines, others count executions an...
Historical estimates place the Jewish death toll in the Holocaust at about six million, a figure supported by major institutions such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem and reflected...
The first Summer Olympics after World War II were the 1948 London Games (29 July–14 August 1948), sometimes called the “Austerity Games” . The United States led the medal table and won the most golds ...
People call communism “bad” for two linked reasons: critics argue its economic model fails to allocate resources without market signals, and historical regimes that called themselves communist produce...
Antisemitic conspiracy theories recycle a small set of core myths — secret world control, collective culpability for political events, criminality, and dual loyalty — rooted in medieval Christian calu...
General George S. Patton made many blunt, controversial public and private statements after World War II ended—most notably questioning Allied denazification and expressing strong anti‑Soviet views—co...
The phrase “new world order” entered modern political discourse at least as early as Woodrow Wilson’s post–World War I internationalism, and was re-popularized by U.S. President George H. W. Bush afte...
Claims that Donald Trump is or was a “Russian asset” exist in multiple forms — from long‑standing journalistic arguments that he was “cultivated” over decades to viral 2025 allegations he was codename...
Yes — the Apollo moon landings were real: multiple independent lines of evidence, from physical lunar samples to modern orbital imagery and contemporary foreign tracking, corroborate that humans walke...
Contemporaneous Soviet public coverage did not claim the U.S. Apollo landings were fabrications; Moscow largely avoided celebrating the American achievement while continuing to minimize or conceal its...
The United States’ deep and sustained support for Israel rests on a mix of historical commitments, strategic calculations in the Middle East, strong domestic political forces, and long‑standing milita...
Conspiracy claims that the Apollo Moon landings were faked rest mainly on perceived photographic oddities, alleged physical impossibilities (radiation/Van Allen belts), motives tied to the Cold War an...