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4 days ago · The joint U.S. and British invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 was preceded by over two decades of war in Afghanistan (see Afghan War).On December 24, 1979, Soviet tanks rumbled across the Amu Darya River and into Afghanistan, ostensibly to restore stability following a coup that brought to power a pair of Marxist-Leninist political groups—the People’s (Khalq) Party and the Banner ...
4 days ago · Official figures put the total number of documentable executions during the years 1937 and 1938 at 681,692, in addition to 116,000 deaths in the Gulag, and 2,000 unofficially killed in non-article 58 shootings; whereas the total estimate of deaths brought about by Soviet repression during the Great Purge ranges from 950,000 to 1.2 million ...
4 days ago · The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflict lasted for 14 years, from its outbreak in 1850 until the fall of Nanjing —which they had renamed "Tianjing"—in 1864.
2 days ago · Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [g] [h] [i] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [d] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet ...
4 days ago · On the same day, a Polish man was arrested on allegations of being ready to help Russia's military intelligence in an alleged plot to assassinate Mr Zelenskyy. 17:00:01 We're pausing our live coverage
4 days ago · World War II. Henri Gerard Winkelman (born Aug. 17, 1876, Maastricht, Neth.—died Dec. 27, 1952, Soesterberg) was a general who commanded the armed forces of the Netherlands during the German invasion in May 1940. A career officer from 1896 until his retirement, with the rank of general, in 1934, Winkelman was recalled to duty and appointed ...
4 days ago · Two detained in Poland after hammer attack on Navalny aide. Two people were detained in Poland on suspicion of a hammer attack on Leonid Volkov, the exiled top aide of the late Russian opposition ...
