The following translation is taken from a rather lengthy interrogation of Prince Nikolay Mikhaylovich Gagarin, a former Wehrmacht officer and commander of the 3rd squadron of the 600th Cossack division, who went over to the Smolensk partisans on June 9, 1943. The uniqueness of the document is that, to date, it is the only knownContinueContinue reading “1943: Prince Nikolay Gagarin Returns Home from Fighting for the Nazis”
Monthly Archives: July 2026
Russian FSB Using Declassified Materials and Emotion-Packed Rhetoric to Create Rift Between Ukraine, Poland
On 5 July 2026, the Ukrainian news agency Ukrainska Pravda [Ukrainian Truth] published an article blasting the Russian government’s Federal Security Service (FSB) for spreading faked “declassified” documents in a massive campaign to undermine the growing strategic partnership between and Poland. This is certainly not the first time such claims have been made. Russia’s ForeignContinueContinue reading “Russian FSB Using Declassified Materials and Emotion-Packed Rhetoric to Create Rift Between Ukraine, Poland”
December 1942: Admiral Isakov’s Life-Saving Amputation Nearly Kills Him After Luftwaffe Attack
Much has been written across the years about the much-decorated Chief of the Naval Staff, Ivan Stepanovich Isakov. Almost all of the biographies, papers, and mere anecdotes dedicated to the Hero of the Soviet Union’s World War Two exploits make glancing, even joking, references to the fact that Isakov had a leg amputated after heContinueContinue reading “December 1942: Admiral Isakov’s Life-Saving Amputation Nearly Kills Him After Luftwaffe Attack”
Translating History 