Ukraine is called the Breadbasket of Europe, but in the 1930s, Joseph Stalin engineered a famine that killed at least 4 million Ukrainians. The event is called the Holodomor, death by starvation. Stalin engineered a disinformation campaign to hide the truth. Results continue to this day. A Vox video.
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Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years, says former KGB spy Yuri Shvets:
“For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.
This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world. They fed him these so-called active measures soundbites and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.”
— “‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy,” David Smith, The Guardian
More:
“Piling up incriminating information about Trump’s Russian connections,” John Sipher, Washington Post
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“Ronald Reagan had an unusual suggestion to help Margaret Thatcher understand the mentality of the Soviet leader: read Tom Clancy’s thriller.
Papers released by the National Archives in Kew, London, reveal the former US president was ‘much impressed’ with Clancy’s Red Storm Rising, which takes places in Russia where an Islamist terror attack triggers a Third World War.
After his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Mr. Reagan said that reading the book would help Mrs Thatcher understand Russia’s Cold War thinking.”
— Valerie Edwards, The Daily Mail [links added]
On March 18, 1965, Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov stepped outside the USSR’s Voskhod-2 space capsule and floated in space for 12 minutes and 9 seconds, It was the first spacewalk.
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