On 18 August 2025, the Russian Federal Security Service [FSB] (Omsk office) declassified and released from its archives a batch of materials related to Imperial Japan’s bacteriological warfare program and the creation of the notorious Detachment 731. Today we’ll be presenting a translation of the initial four-page ‘Special Report’ described below. Also included in theContinueContinue reading “Japan Prepares for Bacteriological Warfare Against the Soviet Union: New FSB Release”
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Executed for Cowardice in 1941, Exonerated in 1957: The Curious Tale of Frolov and Ivanov
First, here are the “facts” as Russian historians know them, or believe them to be: Winter is coming in 1941, the first year of the tragic siege of Leningrad. German and Finnish forces are doing their best to completely encircle the city, and are finally able to do so when the Wehrmacht troops reached LakeContinueContinue reading “Executed for Cowardice in 1941, Exonerated in 1957: The Curious Tale of Frolov and Ivanov”
Details of Publication of New Collection of WW2 Documents
On 9 March 2021, Вести Тула (Tula News) reported the publication of a new volume in the series “Без срока давности” [No Statute of Limitations], part of an ongoing effort to collect and declassify records documenting crimes and atrocities committed during the Great Patriotic War against non-combatants by occupying Nazi forces and their accomplices. TheContinueContinue reading “Details of Publication of New Collection of WW2 Documents”
Translating History 