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Estimates of deaths tied to Soviet anti-religious policies vary wildly: some popular summaries claim “12–20 million” killed as part of anti-religious campaigns , while detailed scholarly and archival ...
Major investigations have repeatedly rejected or found no persuasive evidence for many popular JFK conspiracy claims: the Warren Commission concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone , the 1982 National ...
The three uprisings named were mass political crises rooted in domestic grievances and in each case were met by or force; the documentation and contemporary scholarship do not support the claim that t...
The claim that " had little difficulty fighting off " is false: suffered staggering losses and endured catastrophic defeats before ultimately halting and then crushing , a process that cost the Soviet...
The claim that was removed from power “democratically via recall elections” does not match the documentary record: Zhukov’s displacement in 1957–58 was the product of elite party maneuvering and ’s co...
Between 1917 and 1953, executions, imprisonment in labor camps (gulags), deportations and state policies that produced or exacerbated each contributed—directly or indirectly—to in the , but the magnit...
State dinners at the White House began in the 19th century and have been a recurring but uneven feature of presidencies since 1874; the White House has hosted “hundreds of foreign leaders” for state d...
Recent declassifications have produced : newly surfaced CIA records confirm that a CIA officer, George Joannides, had operational ties to a Cuban‑exile group that interacted with Lee Harvey Oswald and...