# Communism
20 Facts that History Class Didn’t Cover
Did you know that the guillotine was still being used in France to behead people even as Star Wars was…
19 Events of the All but Forgotten American Intervention in the Russian Civil War
When the Russian Empire dissolved following the Bolshevik revolution and ensuing civil war, a separate peace was entered into with…
20 Fascinating Cold War Events and Vignettes
Mankind is lucky to have survived the Cold War, during which the Soviet and American blocs armed themselves with tens…
The “Great Spy” Who Got His Revenge on the Soviet Union
Soviet and Russian leadership, pathologically suspicious of foreigners' intentions at the best of times, became outright paranoid after the devastating…
The Highly Successful M16 Rifle Suffered from a Terrible Reputation When It Was First Introduced in Vietnam
During World War II, American soldiers had the world’s best rifle, the M1 Garand - a highly reliable .30 caliber…
The Soviet Union’s Great Famine was one of History’s Greatest Man-Made Disasters
The Soviet Union’s Great Famine of 1932–1933, also known as the Holodomor in Ukraine, was a man-made demographic catastrophe, caused…
The Gutsy Teenage Oversteegen Sisters Killed Nazis During WWII
On September 5th, 2018, Freddie Oversteegen, a Dutch Resistance heroine of World War II, died in her nineties of a…
18 Major Events During Adolf Hitler’s Rise to Power
Born in Austria-Hungary on April 20, 1889, the man who became the Fuhrer experienced a difficult and somewhat peripatetic childhood,…
19 Things We Should All Remember About the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
The autumn of 1962 saw a year winding down in the United States, which had been for the most part…
16 of History’s Most Devastating and Dramatic Surprise Attacks
In warfare, few things can increase a combatant's chances of success more than a well executed surprise attack that catches…