On one of the most dangerous day in US history, Vasili ARkhipov diffused the eminent nuclear attack and saved the world from Soviet missiles and war.
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The 2004 Beslan Attack: The Worst School Shooting in Human History
Updated: October 22, 2024Entire swaths of humanity are stark raving lunatics. On 1 September 2004, 32 lunatics approached School Number One (SNO) in Beslan, North Ossetia, an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus in Russia.
When Americans and Russians Went to War
Updated: August 24, 2024It is tough to believe that, even this deep into the enlightened Information Age, nations can yet still go to war simply because a single charismatic lunatic wants them to.
Joseph Stalin: The Short-Statured Weatherman who Killed 9 Million People
Updated: October 8, 2022Stalin was likely personally responsible for the deaths of around 6 million people. His lunatic policies claimed another 3 million lives beyond that.
Alexander Prokhorenko: The Russian Rambo
Updated: March 4, 2022Why do soldiers fight? The movies and government propagandists would have us believe it is for grand causes. Young folk go to war to free people from oppression or defend their homeland against soulless invaders. To a degree that is true. Soldiers may indeed go to war for such stuff as this. However, what keeps them in the suck is invariably their friends.
The Russian RPK Light Machinegun: Kalashnikov’s Squad Automatic Weapon
Updated: February 3, 2021Famous from battlefields around the world, the Russian designed RPK (Ruchnoy Pulemyot Kalashnikova, is literally named “Kalashnikov’s hand-held machine gun”.