Russia

Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine  by Scott Horton, The Libertarian Institute, 2024.  At many times and in many ways, although not with a formal treaty, the United States promised Russia that, with the exception of East Germany, NATO would never extend eastward to include the former Warsaw Pact nations of Eastern Europe. The United States promised that if Russia allowed East Germany and West Germany to join into a sin

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War  by Svetlana Alexievich, Introduction by Larry Heinemann. Norton, 1992.  The Invasion of Afghanistan Starting in 1979 and continuing during the 1980s, the Soviet Union invaded the country of Afghanistan. It was a war of aggression and expansion; Afghanistan had done nothing to harm the Soviet Union. The rulers of the Soviet Union tried to keep the war a secret from their own people. The government-controlled news services did

The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom  by Stefan Waydenfeld, Foreword by Norman Davies. Aquila Polonica (2010).  The author grew up in Poland in a small town south of Warsaw. In 1939, during World War II, he and his family were sent East by the Soviet Red Army. At first they went by train to the Pripyat marshes in Belarus. Then, in 1940, the NKVD sent them by train to Kasha, in Siberia. They became slave labor for building a road out of ice.