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Eighty-five years ago, the ruling camarilla around Marshal Gustav Mannerheim invited Nazi Germany to garrison Finland and ...

It’s always interesting to delve a little bit in the democratic history of a country. In autocratic Russia, it was very short-lived. Following the Russian-revolution of 1905 a “constitution” and ...

The suicide of popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the USSR and beyond.

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Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein was executed on06. Following his capture by US forces in 2003, he was prosecuted by the ...

The daughter of autocratic rulers who lived in a gilded fortress with little care for their people is a fraught heroine on ...