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This week in history: May 6–13
World Socialist Web Site· 4 hours agoOn May 7, 1999, US and NATO warplanes carried out their most devastating raids in seven weeks of increasingly savage bombardment of Yugoslavia, bombing...
Democracy Is Losing the Propaganda War
The Atlantic· 37 minutes agoOn June 4, 1989, the Polish Communist Party held partially free elections, setting in motion a series of events that ultimately removed the Communists from power. Within a few years, the Soviet ...
From the archive: the ill-fated communist car revolution
Autocar articles via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn 1989, Fiat became the first Western car maker to enter a joint venture with the USSR, planning to...
Deluge of traffic offence reports overwhelms German officials
dpa international via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoCyclist Falko Görres frequently bikes through Frankfurt's busy banking district - and almost every...
The danger-loving bisexual diplomat who tamed Joseph Stalin
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA murderous dictator, a megalomaniac, a psychopath – I’ve heard Joseph Stalin described as many...
A German soldier looted postcards from doomed Jews in Poland. 80 years later, his granddaughter...
JTA· 6 days ago“These cards are neither a gift nor a donation. I am simply bringing home Holocaust loot," Karla...
A candidate for Germany's key party was beaten up while campaigning for European elections
Los Angeles Times· 2 days agoA candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left party in next month’s election for the European...
Big Germany, What Now? | Timothy Garton Ash
New York Review of Books· 4 days agoIts current territorial shape dates back less than thirty-four years, to the unification of West and East Germany on October 3, 1990, which followed the...
Europe's anthem turns 200: Beethoven's ninth more political than ever
dpa international via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on May 7, 1824 was a great success. The...
Have Aston Villa played in UEFA Champions League before? History in Europe, past record for Unai...
Sporting News· 1 day agoAston Villa are closing in on UEFA Champions League football next season, but have the Villains ever...
