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Russian forces control roughly 19–20% of Ukraine as of mid-December 2025, having gained several thousand square kilometers during 2024–25 and continuing modest, steady territorial advances through lat...
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...
The Russia–Ukraine war began with Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, driven by Kremlin leadership seeking to control Ukrainian territory and political orientation; Moscow’s aim...
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...
Available reporting presents a wide but overlapping range for Russian monthly casualties in the Ukraine war: high-end aggregation by Ukrainian authorities and independent trackers implies roughly 30,0...
The war in Ukraine grew out of a decade-long escalation that began with Ukraine’s 2014 political upheaval, Russia’s seizure and annexation of Crimea, and an eight-year low-intensity war in the Donbas ...
A variety of news outlets and advocacy groups have recorded Candace Owens using explicit phrases about Jewish people, Israel and antisemitism including defenses of Kanye West’s antisemitic tweets, ass...
The Soviet Union recovered Adolf Hitler’s body from his Berlin bunker, reported that the corpse had been partly burned and buried, later exhumed and ultimately destroyed, and presented that Hitler die...
Mainstream historians and decades of postwar investigation conclude Adolf Hitler died by suicide in his Berlin Führerbunker on 30 April 1945; Soviet recovery of jaw fragments and Allied forensic and w...
Since the Soviet breakup in 1991, major conflicts that sources attribute to Russian state action include the two Chechen wars (1994–2009 period), the 2008 Russo–Georgian War over South Ossetia and Abk...
Socialist movements have repeatedly produced very different outcomes: some democratic, welfare-oriented systems in Western Europe and social-democratic reforms, and a number of 20th‑century revolution...
Accusations that a public figure is the Antichrist have recurred across two millennia, applied to popes, emperors, revolutionaries, dictators and modern politicians as a way to name ultimate evil in c...
In 1968 the Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski published The Death of Adolf Hitler, presenting alleged Soviet autopsy details and photographs of Hitler’s dental remains and asserting the Soviets had rec...
The Donbas is a historical, industrial region made of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts that has lain predominantly within Ukraine since 1991 but has been the focal point of armed conflict and partial Russi...
Russia does not hold lawful title to the Donbas under widely accepted international law standards, and the self-styled authorities Moscow backs in Donetsk and Luhansk lack recognized legitimacy outsid...
The is widely dated to February 2014, when occupied and then and backed separatists in eastern , initiating sustained armed conflict . That conflict was dramatically escalated into a full‑scale invasi...
entered its full-scale invasion of in February 2022 with a mix of public rationales—protecting Russian-speakers in and , “demilitarising” and “denazifying” Ukraine, and preventing expansion—and privat...
Ethnic Ukrainians formed a majority in Donbas according to pre-war censuses — about 57–58% in Donetsk and Luhansk versus roughly 38–39% ethnic Russians — yet Russian became the dominant urban language...
Collective punishment—penalizing a group for acts committed by individuals—has long roots in military practice but is now banned under modern international humanitarian law because it targets the inno...
The Holodomor was a catastrophic, largely man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine during 1932–33 that killed millions; Ukrainian and some Western demographers estimate about 3.3–3.9 million Ukrainian deaths...