Tag: thueringen

• [Sharing] 28 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  On this day 80 years ago, Soviet forces engaged in harsh hostilities with Wehrmacht forces around the Austrian capital of Vienna and continued hammering Nazi troops in the Carpathians. Meanwhile, a rebellion broke out in the Buchenwald concentration camp with prisoners arresting the guards [end] Related April 10, 2025: 29 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  11 April 2025

  fascism, history

  austria, buchenwald, czechoslovakia, danube, fascism, germany, history, konzentrationslager, russia, schutzstaffel, slovakia, sovietunion, sputnik, thueringen, thuringia, turcianskysvaetymartin, US, victory80, vienna, wehrmacht, wien, zwangsarbeitslager

• [Sharing] 32 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  In Koenigsberg, the Red Army captured 130 blocks, three forts, three factories and a sorting station. In Vienna, Soviet forces liberated 57 blocks, took control of the arsenal, train station and freight station. To the north-east of Bratislava, the Wehrmacht lost the important transportation hub of Novo Mesto. Meanwhile, US soldiers uncovered Reichsbank reserves hidden…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  7 April 2025

  fascism, history

  austria, bratislava, czechoslovakia, fascism, germany, history, kaliningrad, koenigsberg, merkerskieselbach, novemestonadvahom, preussen, prussia, reichsbank, russia, slovakia, sovietunion, sputnik, thueringen, thuringia, US, victory80, vienna, wehrmacht, wien

• [Sharing] Germany’s new right: Trading on nostalgia for past prosperity in an age of uncertainty – Ingo Schmidt, Canadian Dimension

  Ingo Schmidt on how the triumph of liberal democracy and neoliberal globalization became the ideological seed for the AfD On November 6, 2024 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner. Notwithstanding the broad agreement on policy goals, striking a balance between deficit reduction, support for renewable energy and increased arms spending turned out…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  5 February 2025

  decline, fascism, history, social struggles, ukraine

  AfD, aliceweidel, americafirst, angelamerkel, antifa, athabascauniversity, atlanticism, austria, basharassad, benjaminnetanyahu, berlin, bodoramelow, brandenburg, BRD, brettonwoods, brexit, BSW, busification, canadiandimension, capitalism, CDU, china, christianlindner, coal, communism, coup, COVID, davidricardo, DDR, decline, democracy, denmark, diegruenen, dielinke, dietmarwoidke, donaldtrump, donbass, eurocrats, europe, europeanunion, fascism, FDP, france, francoismitterrand, gas, gaza, gerhardschroeder, germany, glasnost, guychazan, hansgeorgmaassen, hegemony, helmutkohl, helmutschmidt, history, humor, ideology, imperialism, inflation, ingoschmidt, intelligence, investigation, israel, joebiden, johannesbecher, joschkafischer, journalism, karlmarx, keynesianism, kiev, londondebtagreement, lumpenproletariat, maastrichttreaty, madeleinealbright, maidan, margaretthatcher, migration, minsk, mitbestimmung, moelln, nationalism, NATO, neoliberalism, nordstream, NSU, oil, olafscholz, ordoliberalismus, oskarlafontaine, oswaldspengler, palestine, PDS, pinzuti, propaganda, proxywar, racism, recession, resistance, revisionism, rostock, russia, russophobia, sachsen, sahrawagenknecht, sanctions, SED, shadoks, socialdemocracy, socialstruggles, solingen, sovietunion, SPD, stasi, strategicculturefoundation, strategy, supremacism, sweden, syria, terrorism, thefinancialtimes, thenetherlands, thueringen, UK, ukraine, US, volodymyrzelenskyy, willybrandt, yugoslavia

• History, on this day: do my readers know who, 80 years ago, liberated Nazi concentration camp complex of Auschwitz, Birkenau and Monowitz?

  clue: the same army has performed 80% of all German military losses during WW2 Nohra, in Thüringen, was the first Konzentrationslager [Concentration Camp], opened on March 3, 1933. Arrested and detained without trial, its inmates were political enemies of the Nazi regime: German communist militants. While the concentration camp system was developing, other enemies, like…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  27 January 2025

  fascism, history, social struggles

  adolfeichmann, adolfhitler, antisemitism, auschwitz, balticstates, belarus, birkenau, capitalism, cinema, communism, conspiracy, einsatzgruppen, estonia, etatfrancais, europe, fascism, france, franzwalterstahlecker, genocide, germany, gypsies, helferinnen, history, hungary, IGfarben, intelligence, italy, kennethbranagh, konzentrationslager, kursk, latvia, leningrad, lithuania, LVF, masskilling, miropol, monowitz, nationalism, nohra, operationbagration, operationiskra, peoplesdispatch, philippepetain, poland, police, racism, reinhardheydrich, romania, RSHA, schutzstaffel, scottritter, serbia, socialstruggles, sovietunion, spain, sputnik, stalingrad, stanleytucci, thueringen, ukraine, vernichtungslager, vichy, wannseeconference, warcrime, zwangsarbeitslager, zyklon

• [Sharing] Germany’s far-left disrupter claims credit for limiting aid to Ukraine – Guy Chazan, Financial Times

  Sahra Wagenknecht’s party rises in polls ahead of regional elections in eastern German states Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s most prominent far-left politician, has taken credit for the government’s decision to limit military aid to Kyiv, saying her strong opposition to arming Ukraine was influencing Berlin’s policy on the war. In an interview with the Financial Times,…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  22 August 2024

  fascism, history, ukraine

  adolfhitler, AfD, atlanticism, atomic, berlin, borispistorius, BSW, bundestag, CDU, censorship, christianlindner, communism, DDR, dielinke, diplomacy, disinformation, donbass, europe, europeanunion, fakenews, fascism, friedrichmerz, georgmaier, germany, guychazan, history, kursk, mariovoigt, martindebes, michaelkretschmer, migration, MRBM, NATO, neoliberalism, nuclear, olafscholz, proxywar, putinversteher, reichstag, russia, sachsen, sahrawagenknecht, sovietunion, SPD, thefinancialtimes, thueringen, UK, ukraine, US, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, warcrime, whitewashing