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To Tatyana et al:
Any suggestions for serious scholarship/non-fiction books about the 1917 revolution, the Civil War and Soviet history in general? By Russian scholars?
I am asking since I have come to the conclusion that what I regarded as “safe” in the West in this area of research is very often corrupted by ideology and massive geopolitical interests. Which means that apparently e.g. British Secret Intelligence has been overwhelmingly influential in what Russian history looks like in our universities and beyond.
Due to Cyrillic script this problem is difficult to come by. Even if I went to the library to get a recommended Russian study what I am gonna do? I have not the time to learn it just for “fun”.
It appears as if the foundations of Russia Studies in the West are seriously jeopardized by lack of basic academic standards.
All I know by now: I am reading something and I ask myself, how much of this is correct?
This is senseless even for the West, big think tank “Chatham House” invite real, actual ukrainian nazi Yevhen Karas:
Chatham House hosts notorious Ukrainian neo-Nazi mob leader
A prominent far-right militant has been invited to discuss the “future of Europe” in Londonhttps://swentr.site/news/627809-chatham-house-ukrainian-nazi/
He is the founder of neo-nazi organisation S-14 that made itself a name after their violent attacks against the roma minority group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S14_(Ukrainian_group)Here he is throwing a nazi salute:
https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2019/08/df5636c7ba893d523ae5b69baecee9cf.jpgEven pro-western Bellingcat organisation called out S-14 for being nazis
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/08/09/yes-its-still-ok-to-call-ukraines-c14-neo-nazi/…but sure all talk about ukraine having a real nazi problem is of course only “russian propaganda”
thanks!
Chatham House with another proto-fascist freakshow:
War in Ukraine: The battleground for the future of Europe
Ukraine’s internal dynamics and evolving needs bear important lessons for Europe as the continent adapts to a shifting global landscape.
keynote 40 min.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/research-event/war-ukraine-battleground-future-europeA bunch of crazy people attending. Among them former C-14 Neonazi leader Yevhen Karas, for instance most likely the killer of Ukranian journalist Oles Busina in 2015, Karas now is commander in the AFU of the 413th Separate Battalion (unmanned systems.)
p.s. to my astonishment this was not only reported by RT (see above by Jack) but by German left daily JUNGE WELT too.
Karas was very proud after the event and posted pictures of him sitting on stage next to British establishmen royalty.
Brits always adored their Nazis.AG
Thanks for the link, yeah It is insane, Chatham house is also in part state-funded which make this an even bigger scandal. But it is like facts like this do no matter to the Western establishment. It is like there is no morals left.
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In other “news”Ukrainian/Canadian professor Ivan Katchanovski recently released a book on the conflict in Ukraine, it is free to download as a pdf or epub file here:
The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins
From the Maidan to the Ukraine WarUkraine too, but even without that, I think about this:
We are all ordinary people.
We don’t have any levers of power, we don’t have the right to use weapons, we are simply peaceful citizens who don’t influence conflicts in any way other than by expressing our opinions.We are a majority in the world.
There has to be a majority, because those with power are a minority in any society.
So, we, tha majority, have some levers to expresss our opinion and to excercise it.
Let’s compare the list?UN
Council of Europe
European Court of Human Rights
OSCE
Doctors Without Borders
World Organization Against Torture
Amnesty International
Human Rights WatchAll these independent organizations have a significant voice to raise before governments. What is their reaction?
I’ve been away for a while, friends, and I’ll probably be away for a while until the Christmas holidays are over.
Forgive me this small personal digression.
My mom called. My dad’s health has significantly worsened.
Of course, I jumped in the car and hurried to Moscow, where my older sister is caring for our parents.My dad. The last stroke left him unable to move his leg. He’s having a hard time not being able to move freely around the apartment, let alone go for walks. Age-related changes have greatly affected his memory.
– Dad, Mom called and said you’re not feeling well. I hurried to see you.
– Who are you?
– I’m your youngest daughter. I hurried to see you to tell you how much I love you.
– Oh! If only you knew how much I loved you!
– I know, papa, I know.And later, while driving on the way back, the obnoxious trucks again tried to overtake each other at a snail’s pace, taking over my lane. And I remembered a similar trip I wrote about here. And that brought linguistics to my mind. And the past tense inflection of the word “love” used by my father suddenly became clear in my mind.
When he said he loved, he meant it all — he’s no longer the person I knew; he’s lost most of his personality, and the process continues.
But even amongst this process, the very core of his personality remembers that he loved his daughter very much.I probably can’t convey the depth of feeling, to be blessed by this love.
I feel like we, humble human beings, emerge from the dust of the galaxy on the outskirts, and one day we realize who we are. And one day we realize that we are disintegrating. But even at that sad moment, we remember that we love our children.
He’s a Father with a capital F.
I’m happy to have been born from such a father. I hope to be such a mother for my son.
If I ever decide to become religious, I’ll choose the cult of ancestors. At least I have undeniable proof that love for descendants lives on in a person even when their personality disintegrates.
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Believers, please pray for Alexander.Am not the praying kind, so I can only hope you find time to interact with him as much as possible.
Are there any places which were dear to him in his youth? And music? Maybe visiting/listening to it might be helpful too.
And food from the past…🤔
All the best (I know, to lose people on the cognitive level is hard.)praise from unusual corners:
Professor Niall Ferguson from Hoover Institute gives the Slava Ukraini crowd a cold shower in the form of some cold hard facts about the Russian economy and the fact that sanctions have “failed utterly”. The corrupt 🇬🇧 political class does NOT want you to hear this 👇 (Sep 2025) – apart from Ferguson repeating the “shadow fleet” bullshit as if that were a serious term in any of this.
https://x.com/ThinkCoalition/status/1991834546929905956?t=ctOi6NvoSE3zqS6usodZ7Q&s=19Glenn Diesen offered a ‘Holy Roan Empire’ definition of the Euro ‘Peace Plan’ on George Galloway’s MOATS yesterday evening:
The Europeans want to buy (with money they do not have) American weapons (which do not yet exist) to give to a country Ukraine (which does not have enough soldiers to use them.)
