Tag: UK

• [Sharing] 43 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  The liberation of the industrial city of Rybnik in Upper Silesia was one of the successful offensive operations carried out by Soviet soldiers on this day eight decades ago. In the meantime, London was hit by Nazi Germany’s last V2 long-range ballistic missile [end] Related March 26, 2025: 44 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik March…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  27 March 2025

  fascism, history

  ballisticmissiles, balticsea, danzig, fascism, gdansk, gdingen, gdynia, germany, history, kostrzyn, kuestrin, london, oderneisse, poland, pomerania, pommern, russia, rybnik, schlesien, science, silesia, sovietunion, sputnik, strategy, terrorism, UK, vergeltungswaffen, victory80, warcrime, wehrmacht

• [Sharing] 44 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  On this day eight decades ago, the Red Army captured a number of key sites in Czechoslovakia and attacked the Baltic naval port of Gdynia. The Wehrmacht’s positions were becoming worse every day, so the top brass of the Third Reich called an urgent meeting [end] Related March 25, 2025: 45 Days to Victory Day…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  27 March 2025

  fascism, history

  adolfhitler, balticsea, banskabystrica, battlefortheruhr, bavaria, braniewo, braunsberg, czechoslovakia, devecser, fascism, gdingen, gdynia, germany, hermanngoering, history, hungary, josephgoebbels, papa, poland, pomerania, pommern, preussen, prussia, ruhr, russia, slovakia, sovietunion, sputnik, UK, US, victory80, wehrmacht

• [Sharing] 46 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  On this day eight decades ago, the Red Army advanced further across western Hungary and captured the Wehrmacht strongholds of Nysa and Leobschutz in Upper Silesia (present-day Poland). German forces fiercely attempted to counterattack Soviet soldiers in the vital shipyard cities of Danzig (Gdansk) and Gdynia along the Baltic coast. In all, 373 towns were…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  25 March 2025

  fascism, history

  austria, balticsea, barcelona, danzig, fascism, gdansk, gdingen, gdynia, germany, głubczyce, history, hungary, leobschuetz, neisse, nysa, olaffickert, poland, pomerania, pommern, preussen, prussia, russia, schlesien, schutzstaffel, silesia, sovietunion, spain, sputnik, UK, victory80, vienna, wehrmacht, wien, wilhelmkleinert

• [Sharing] 47 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  With just 47 days to go until the anniversary of the Red Army’s victory, on this day Soviet forces delivered an ultimatum to those who were defending the city of Danzig with a proposal to surrender [end] Related March 22, 2025: 48 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik March 21, 2025: 49 Days to Victory Day…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  23 March 2025

  fascism, history

  baborow, balticsea, battlefortheruhr, bauerwitz, danzig, ernau, fascism, gdansk, gdynia, germany, heiligenbeil, history, mamonovo, poland, pomerania, pommern, preussen, prussia, ruhr, russia, schlesien, silesia, sopot, sovietunion, sputnik, UK, US, victory80, zoppot

• [Sharing] 51 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  The Red Army divided the Altdamm group of forces in two on March 19, 1945, as it continued its successful offensive operations. In the meantime, the Soviet Union’s Western allies persisted in independent talks with the Nazi high command to set up the local surrender of Wehrmacht soldiers in Italy [end] Related March 18, 2025:…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  19 March 2025

  fascism, history

  altdamm, dabie, fascism, frischeshaff, germany, history, italy, karlwolff, neustadt, poland, pomerania, pommern, prudnik, russia, schutzstaffel, sovietunion, sputnik, stettin, szczecin, UK, US, victory80, wehrmacht, zalewwislany

• [Sharing] ‘Independent’ anti-Russia outlet Meduza faces collapse after US funding slashed – Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone

  After fervently denying that they relied on financial support from the US government, the supposedly “independent” Russian language paper Meduza has been thrown into existential crisis following the Trump administration’s pause on foreign development assistance Alexey Kovalev, a self-described “Russian journalist currently living in exile for fear of persecution back home,” had spent much of…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  19 March 2025

  corruption, fascism, secret operations, ukraine

  aaronmate, alexeykovalev, americafirst, atlanticism, censorship, CIA, corruption, crimea, cyberwarfare, democracy, disinformation, dmitrypolyansky, DOJ, donaldtrump, donbass, europe, europeanunion, fakenews, FARA, fascism, FBI, fordfoundation, foreignagents, foreignpolicy, galinatimchenko, georgesoros, germany, history, hollywood, ICC, intelligence, investigation, israel, ivangolunov, ivankolpakov, journalism, justice, karimkahn, kerch, kitklarenberg, law, leefang, london, maxblumenthal, mediazona, meduza, nationalism, NATO, NED, norway, opensociety, operationgladio, police, policemisconduct, pravyisektor, presstitutes, propaganda, proxywar, psyop, pussyriot, realclearinvestigations, regimechange, russia, russiatoday, secretoperations, socialmedia, statedept, strategy, telegram, terrorism, thegrayzone, thezincnetwork, twitter, UK, ukraine, unitednations, US, USAID, vladimirputin, warcrime, whitewashing

• [Sharing] 54 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  Eighty years ago today, the Red Army began the Vienna Operation, which led to the liberation of Austria’s capital and western Hungary. In the meantime, intense fighting was going on close to Altdamm and southwest of Koenigsberg [end] Related March 15, 2025: 55 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik March 14, 2025: 56 Days to Victory…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  16 March 2025

  fascism, history

  altdamm, austria, berlin, dabie, fascism, germany, history, hungary, kaliningrad, koenigsberg, nuernberg, nuremberg, pomerania, pommern, preussen, prussia, russia, sovietunion, sputnik, stettin, strategy, szczecin, UK, US, victory80, vienna, wien, wuerzburg

• [Sharing] The Minsk Agreements and why they failed – Ian Proud, Strategic Culture Foundation

  The Minsk agreements fell apart because delivering special status for the Donbas was politically too difficult in Ukraine The Minsk agreements fell apart because delivering special status for the Donbas was politically too difficult in Ukraine. And because sanctions policy against Russia both disincentivized their compliance, and actively incentivised Ukrainian non-compliance. Claiming that Russia reneged…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  16 March 2025

  fascism, ukraine

  aidarbattalion, angelamerkel, atlanticism, autonomy, ballisticmissiles, censorship, constitution, debaltsevo, democracy, diplomacy, disinformation, dmitrokuleba, DNR, donbass, donetsk, drones, europeanunion, fakenews, fascism, france, francoishollande, germany, humanitarianassistance, ianproud, ilovaisk, intelligence, journalism, justice, kiev, kramatorsk, law, LNR, lugansk, mercenarism, MH17, minsk, MLRS, nationalism, NATO, OSCE, petroporoshenko, PMC, propaganda, proxywar, radars, recce, referendum, retirement, russia, sanctions, satellites, severodonetsk, slavyansk, strategicculturefoundation, terrorism, tochka, UK, ukraine, unitednations, US, viktoryanukovych, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, wagner, warcrime, whitewashing

• [Sharing] 56 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  On this day 80 years ago, the Red Army resumed its offensive near Koenigsberg, while in Czechoslovakia, Nazi forces lost Zvolen, a key transport hub. Meanwhile, Soviet troops continued crushing Nazi resistance in Hungary’s Lake Balaton region, preventing the German military from reaching the Danube [end] Related March 13, 2025: 57 Days to Victory Day…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  14 March 2025

  fascism, history

  balaton, berlin, czechoslovakia, danube, danzig, fascism, gdansk, germany, history, hungary, kaliningrad, koenigsberg, mosquito, poland, radars, russia, slovakia, sovietunion, sputnik, UK, victory80, zvolen

• [Sharing] Paralyzed by acute dementia, Europe declares war on Russia all over again – Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture Foundation

  The SMO [Special Military Operation] will keep rollin’ on. And as the Europeans want it, to the last Ukrainian Let’s start with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Road to Damascus moment: Frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine and Russia, and it needs to come to an end…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  9 March 2025

  corruption, decline, fascism, history, ukraine

  aegis, AfD, airdefense, andreimartyanov, antonyblinken, arctic, atlanticism, atomic, balticstates, berezina, blackrock, canadiandimension, cannonfodder, capitalism, censorship, chauvinism, colonialism, corruption, crimea, cyberwarfare, decline, democracy, denmark, diplomacy, disinformation, donaldtrump, donaldtusk, donbass, emmanuelmacron, etatfrancais, eurasia, europe, europeanunion, fascism, france, franzkafka, friedrichmerz, FSB, gas, gaza, gazprom, genocide, germany, goetterdaemmerung, greenland, hegemony, history, hypersonicmissiles, ideology, ingoschmidt, intelligence, israel, jeffreysachs, joebiden, journalism, kerch, kitklarenberg, LGBT, marcorubio, mercenarism, mettefrederiksen, MIC, moliere, music, napoleonebuonaparte, nationalism, NATO, neoliberalism, nordstream, novorossiya, nuclear, oleksiiarestovych, operationgladio, oreshnik, patriot, patriotism, pepeescobar, philippepetain, poland, propaganda, proxywar, recce, richardwagner, russia, sanctions, satellites, SBIR, schutzstaffel, secretoperations, seymourhersh, sovietunion, sputnik, stalingrad, starlink, statedept, strategicculturefoundation, strategy, syria, tactics, terrorism, THAAD, thegrayzone, UK, ukraine, US, valdaiclub, vichy, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, vonderleyen, westasia, wokism, zircon