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August 12, 2022To write about any one or more massacres for which Stalin was responsible, one must first answer the question, “Which ones?” There are so many. The slaughter of the kulaks. The...
August 4, 2022“I was only following orders,” Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann claimed in the colorless, matter-of-fact fashion of a typical bureaucrat. The world thought his...
July 13, 2022Mao believed that all power “flows from the barrel of a gun”—effectively an exaltation of force and a “might makes right” perspective. This idea could not be more different...
