US backed ethnic cleansing of Serbs, top diplomat secretly told Croat leader

The ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Serbs by a US-backed Croatian leader was premeditated, according to newly-uncovered files revealing the operation’s planning. After the bloodshed subsided, Richard Holbrooke, a top US diplomat, assured him: “We said publicly… that we were concerned

US backed ethnic cleansing of Serbs, top diplomat secretly told Croat leader

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Through the Doorway: Remembering A Father’s Battle Amid Potential Conflict

I read an article today about a woman reflecting on her father’s PTSD. Her family had the same rule as mine—if you needed to wake Dad, you did so from the doorway to prevent the risk of an accidental reaction triggered by a flashback. I wonder how many children of military veterans have lived with this unspoken understanding, shaped by their parents’ trauma.

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The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget

Visualize the movement against the Vietnam War. What do you see? Hippies with daisies in their long, unwashed hair yelling “Baby killers!” as they spit on clean-cut, bemedaled veterans just back from Vietnam? College students in tattered jeans (their pockets bulging with credit cards) staging a sit-in to avoid the draft? A mob of chanting demonstrators burning an American flag (maybe with a bra or two thrown in)? That’s what we’re supposed to see, and that’s what Americans today probably do see — if they visualize the antiwar movement at all.

The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget

Музыка Победы (Music of Victory)

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🇷🇺🎶 Тёмная ночь (Dark Is the Night) by SHAMAN. The album “Music of Victory” was released today. This project was created especially for the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Listen to the album Music of Victory on Spotify! Iconic songs like “Dark Night,” “Blue Scarf,” and “Smuglyanka” are reimagined in modern arrangements, performed by popular artists including Pelageya, Tatyana Kurtukova, Victoria Dayneko, Django, SHAMAN, Polina Gagarina, Oleg Gazmanov, Uma2rman, Nikolai Rastorguev, and others. These songs, brimming with love for the Motherland, unite generations and preserve historical memory.

Tribute to Enver Hoxha – on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death

Tribute to Enver Hoxha – on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death

by Gjon Bruçi, Gazeta DITA, April 11, 2025

April 11, 1985 – Albania held its breath, lowered its flag and put on mourning clothes. The Leader had died – the National Pride, the Renaissance figure of modern times, the greatest man in the history of the Albanians, Enver Hoxha.

Tribute to Enver Hoxha – on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death