by Todd DePastino By February 1946, 42-year-old American diplomat George Kennan had spent almost half his life abroad. He'd started in the US Embassy in Moscow in 1933, then on to Prague, Berlin (where he spent six months in a Nazi prison), Lisbon, London, and back to Moscow. George F.
Thank you to John Petrus for giving us this visual tour he created of an exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum of the masterpieces recaptured from the Nazis. You can also do a deep dive into the exhibit through this audio tour at the museum’s website. From Cincinnati Art Museum Press
No one "lands" on an aircraft carrier, the saying goes. They only "crash" in a controlled manner. On January 24, a F-35C Lightning II had an uncontrolled crash-landing on the USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea. The event wasn't reported, but someone in the Navy leaked a 51-second video that shows the flaming jet hitting
Pravda photo of Stalin giving his Bolshoi Theatre speech on February 9, 1946 by Todd DePastino On February 9, 1946, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin delivered with much fanfare an election speech at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Yes, an election speech. The Soviet Union held elections every four years
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News from Ukraine, which is bracing for an attack of 100,000 Russian troops massed at its border, made me think of the Ukrainian veterans who attended our VBC breakfast in November 2019 as part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Six Ukrainians joined our breakfast and spoke about
