Katyn Forest Massacre
The Soviet Secret Police & the Katyn Forest Massacre
By Richard RuleOn September 17, 1939, in the wake of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, the Soviet Red Army crossed the Polish frontier from the east. Read more
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New Mexico: Atomic Spy Capital
By Richard HigginsNew Mexico and its capital of Santa Fe bring to mind some beautiful images. Stunning sunsets, unlimited vistas, a plethora of art galleries, the spectacular food enlivened with the local green chile, an ancient Native American culture that still thrives, and a Spanish heritage tradition going back to within 50 years of Columbus’s arrival all make for a unique cultural and physical environment. Read more
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WWII Diary of a Boy Soldier: A Story of Youth and Resistance
Julian Kulski was only ten years old when he was introduced to war. As he hunted for mushrooms near Warsaw, Poland, he was struck by the unmistakable buzz of the German blitzkrieg:
“… we heard the sound of engines. Read more
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Warsaw Uprising: The Story of Bogdan Mieczkowski
By Yanek Mieczkowski“This mission is suicidal,” thought Bogdan Mieczkowski. In the autumn of 1944, the 19-year-old Polish resistance fighter battled in the Warsaw Uprising. Read more
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Joseph Stalin’s Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov: A Soviet Survivor
By Blaine TaylorIn the summer of 1941, as the Nazi German blitzkrieg rolled over the Russian Red Army defenses at the embattled city of Leningrad, today once more St. Read more
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What did FDR know about the Katyn Forest Massacre?
By Michael E. HaskewMonths after the Red Army stormed across the Polish frontier from the east and occupied approximately half of Poland in the autumn of 1939, the Soviet secret police (NKVD) rounded up thousands of Polish Army officers and summarily executed them at various locations around the war-torn country. Read more
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Fleeing to Fight
By John Osborn Jr.“They had lost their country but kept their honor,” future British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said of General Wladyslaw Anders and the Polish II Corps, men in the strange position of trying to win the liberation of their homeland by fighting in Italy. Read more
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Joseph Stalin’s Paranoid Purge
By John W. Osborn, Jr.Officer corps expect to suffer heavy losses in war. The entire 1914 class of France’s St. Read more
